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Which free/open source alfernatives to WordPad for Windows do you recommend then? LibreOffice is huge and slow, MS Office Online requires Internet. How to edit

Which free/open source alfernatives to WordPad for Windows do you recommend then? LibreOffice is huge and slow, MS Office Online requires Internet. How to edit simple RTF/DOC documents offline on Windows without downloading >300MB full LibreOffice suite? Only Abiword comes to my mind.

pacifika 3y ago
Html with contenteditable I guess?
- Andrex 3y ago
  You just gave me the idea for an HTML file format that writes changes to contenteditable back to the file. Has anyone tried this before? I'm likely ignorant. But it would be a pretty exciting document publishing format.
  - niutech 3y ago
    There are already multiple WYSIWYG HTML editors such as BlueGriffon.
    - pacifika 3y ago
      Are any of them writing tools instead of publishing tools?
      - niutech 3y ago
        You can use any of them for writing any HTML code.
  - throwanem 3y ago
    With a little server-side support it wasn't all that rare an approach back in the early-mid 2000s days of web dev, when none of us had any idea what we were doing and couldn't wait to find out. "Exciting" is certainly a word I would use to describe the results, especially in the common case where no VCS was in use.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki is kind of like that, albeit way more involved
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supermatou 3y ago
Focus Writer. Open-source, minimalist interface (but enough useful options in settings) and many more. I've been using it for years, very happy with it https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ Edit: Also available for Linux (deb/flatpak)
- geokon 3y ago
  Hard to complain about free, but overall it feels a bit .. unpolished. On Ubuntu 22.04 jammy you can't change the font reliably
isxek 3y ago
Something I've used time and again when I was still primarily using Windows: Jarte (https://www.jarte.com/ https://www.jarte.com/). It's small, portable, and works well with RTF files. Apparently, it can also work with .DOC and .DOCX files (https://www.jarte.com/features.html https://www.jarte.com/features.html), but I've never tried it myself.
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Encrypt-Keeper 3y ago
Notepad++ maybe?
- niutech 3y ago
  Notepad++ doesn't support RTF nor DOCX.

pacifika 3y ago

Html with contenteditable I guess?

Andrex 3y ago
You just gave me the idea for an HTML file format that writes changes to contenteditable back to the file. Has anyone tried this before? I'm likely ignorant. But it would be a pretty exciting document publishing format.
- niutech 3y ago
  There are already multiple WYSIWYG HTML editors such as BlueGriffon.
  - pacifika 3y ago
    Are any of them writing tools instead of publishing tools?
    - niutech 3y ago
      You can use any of them for writing any HTML code.
- throwanem 3y ago
  With a little server-side support it wasn't all that rare an approach back in the early-mid 2000s days of web dev, when none of us had any idea what we were doing and couldn't wait to find out. "Exciting" is certainly a word I would use to describe the results, especially in the common case where no VCS was in use.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki is kind of like that, albeit way more involved

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supermatou 3y ago

Focus Writer. Open-source, minimalist interface (but enough useful options in settings) and many more. I've been using it for years, very happy with it https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ Edit: Also available for Linux (deb/flatpak)

geokon 3y ago
Hard to complain about free, but overall it feels a bit .. unpolished. On Ubuntu 22.04 jammy you can't change the font reliably

isxek 3y ago

Something I've used time and again when I was still primarily using Windows: Jarte (https://www.jarte.com/ https://www.jarte.com/). It's small, portable, and works well with RTF files. Apparently, it can also work with .DOC and .DOCX files (https://www.jarte.com/features.html https://www.jarte.com/features.html), but I've never tried it myself.

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Encrypt-Keeper 3y ago

Notepad++ maybe?

niutech 3y ago
Notepad++ doesn't support RTF nor DOCX.