Open a binary property list — the bplist00 kind your text editor shows as gibberish — and read it as a plain key / value tree.
Apple stores most runtime property lists in a compact binary encoding: an object table plus an offset table, with the magic bytes bplist00 at the start. It is smaller and faster to read than XML, but it is not text, so Notepad, VS Code or a web editor show only noise.
Integers, reals, booleans, dates (stored as seconds since 2001), data blobs, UIDs, arrays and nested dictionaries are all decoded with their real types shown next to each key.
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