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I also do this with almost everything I write. I always have a Sublime Text window open with a bunch of unsaved tabs that I use as a buffer space for everything
by izoow 4y ago
I also do this with almost everything I write. I always have a Sublime Text window open with a bunch of unsaved tabs that I use as a buffer space for everything and copy paste it when I’m done.
Another reason is persistence. If a webpage decides to refresh or my browser or system crashes, my textarea content is gone. Sublime Text remembers those unsaved tabs no matter what.
- robin_reala 4y agoSublime does this incredibly well. I’ve got windows open with notes that I created a couple of years ago and haven’t explicitely saved. They’ve survived restarts, Sublime upgrades, whole-OS upgrades and everything inbetween.
- drra 4y agoFor me it's also because of anglophonocentric implementation of hotkeys that can wreck what I write if I'm not careful.
- michaelmrose 4y agoRandom thing. Tridactyl for firefox lets you open the contents of a text box in an instance of $EDITOR. Save and quit and the text box contains whatever you wrote in buffer. I believe several different addons for multiple browsers provide a similar feature. I find this a nicer experience for formatting and editing. It basically just automates what you are already doing.
- phforms 4y agoThe macOS app Raycast has a “Floating Notes” extension that I frequently bring up with a keyboard shortcut for smaller messages. The text gets persisted and it is very lightweight and floats on top of other windows. Before that, I have also used Sublime Text (and I use it for many other things except coding, which is kind of ironic).