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Nothing beats plaintext.

grugagag 6y ago
I learned that a while ago and settled on notepad++ to organize my daily work. Every new tab opens and without needing to be saved is persisted even if computer restarts. That is a perfect scratchpad for ideas. What I want to keep gets named and is then classified. For is no longer useful the tab gets closed and not saved. Notepad++ allows for searching all documents within folders as well. Another great option is moving lines up and down for prioritizing lists for which there is a shortcut ctrl+alt+up/down arrows.
- mxuribe 6y ago
  I absolutely love notepad++; for many reaosns including but not limited to: beinglightweight, fast, quite featureful even before resorting to the many plugins, etc. The only downside is it is for windows only. For my dayjob i'm forced to use windows, so can enjoy notepad++ for everything (from dev. to basic notetaking, to journaling)...but all my personal machines run linx OS...so no notepad++. I love the choice of note-taking apps on linux - kwrite, leafpad, etc. - but i wish notepad++ would exist for linux distros. If anyone could recommend a notepad++ clone but for linux, would greatly appreciate it! Also, yeah, I've learned so long ago that plain text - regardless of which actual app i use - is awesome (flexible, scriptable, readable far off into the future, no system lock-in, etc.).
  - douglaswlance 6y ago
    VSCode can support most any plaintext workflow, as long as you're ok with the electron overhead.
    - mxuribe 6y ago
      I tried to give VSCode a decent shot...and it is not bad at all; actually pretty good. I do like its customizability, the plugins, etc...and it does check the box of being available on the major operating systems that i use (windows for work, linux for personal)...but it can get quite heavy on resources. I'm on the fence about anything electron-related: great to be able to roll out on numerous OS/platforms, but heavy on resources. Ultimately, because of the heavy overhead - in my mind - i've put vscode as only a second-best text editor to my preferred notepad++. Thank you very much, though, for the recommendation!! p.s. - Because of some comments here, I'm actually trying Geany (seems lightweight, cross-platform, etc.)...we'll see if it can replace notepad++ for me.

I learned that a while ago and settled on notepad++ to organize my daily work. Every new tab opens and without needing to be saved is persisted even if computer restarts. That is a perfect scratchpad for ideas. What I want to keep gets named and is then classified. For is no longer useful the tab gets closed and not saved. Notepad++ allows for searching all documents within folders as well. Another great option is moving lines up and down for prioritizing lists for which there is a shortcut ctrl+alt+up/down arrows.

mxuribe 6y ago
I absolutely love notepad++; for many reaosns including but not limited to: beinglightweight, fast, quite featureful even before resorting to the many plugins, etc. The only downside is it is for windows only. For my dayjob i'm forced to use windows, so can enjoy notepad++ for everything (from dev. to basic notetaking, to journaling)...but all my personal machines run linx OS...so no notepad++. I love the choice of note-taking apps on linux - kwrite, leafpad, etc. - but i wish notepad++ would exist for linux distros. If anyone could recommend a notepad++ clone but for linux, would greatly appreciate it! Also, yeah, I've learned so long ago that plain text - regardless of which actual app i use - is awesome (flexible, scriptable, readable far off into the future, no system lock-in, etc.).
- douglaswlance 6y ago
  VSCode can support most any plaintext workflow, as long as you're ok with the electron overhead.
  - mxuribe 6y ago
    I tried to give VSCode a decent shot...and it is not bad at all; actually pretty good. I do like its customizability, the plugins, etc...and it does check the box of being available on the major operating systems that i use (windows for work, linux for personal)...but it can get quite heavy on resources. I'm on the fence about anything electron-related: great to be able to roll out on numerous OS/platforms, but heavy on resources. Ultimately, because of the heavy overhead - in my mind - i've put vscode as only a second-best text editor to my preferred notepad++. Thank you very much, though, for the recommendation!! p.s. - Because of some comments here, I'm actually trying Geany (seems lightweight, cross-platform, etc.)...we'll see if it can replace notepad++ for me.