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Notepad++ is my daily driver for taking notes, todos, do pastes and use new tabs as buffers. It’s the most reliable place on my work machine, being always found

Notepad++ is my daily driver for taking notes, todos, do pastes and use new tabs as buffers. It’s the most reliable place on my work machine, being always found how you left it off. Notepad++ and WinMerge are my two favorite tools. Integrating Winmerge with Visual Studio 2022 was a breath of fresh air, any compares pop up outside VS in a WinMerge window, could leave multiple versions open, etc. I don’t even want to start about by pet peeves with VS but many UI/UX features in it are just bad. Unfortunately I have to live with it for now.

elashri 2y ago
I use Sublime Text for that. I usually use it to paste something that I want to run but modify it (i.e docker-compose.yml) and I use it to write notes during my work and store in its buffers my session thinking. When I'm done or want to leave for a long time (I move these to obsidian). Also for quick edits I like being able to use build-in terminal command `subl` (i.e adding something to ~/.bashrc ). It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is the fastest program to open on all machines I tried before. I don't have a license but I think I should get one (they are generous about that and I silence myself by saying I'm poor academic researcher).
- grugagag 2y ago
  Ive been meaning to try Sublime for a while now. Will try and comment my experience at a future time. Thing is N++ never dissapointed and if Sublime wins my mindshare Id be having some tough decision to make. Also N++ is free and I developed plugins for myself. Maybe Sublime is still better, don’t know for sure.
  - elashri 2y ago
    I didn't intend this as a comparison. I used Notepad++ for sometime along time ago when I was using windows primarily. I moved to using Linux and Mac and this in itself would mean I cannot use Notepad++ as it is not available on Mac. I was just sharing my experience using different tool to a similar workflow like you have. Being free and open source is good of course but for me Sublime has better integration and its UI is better. And it does support Mac.
nuancebydefault 2y ago
The fact that it auto saves any new tab that you filled with thoughts, todo's, pieces of logs,... is super handy. When rebooting they just appear as unsaved new tabs, as if you never closed notepad++. Zero keep effort. To toss, you just close the tab and click no.
- ASalazarMX 2y ago
  I like the small QoL features it has accrued over the years, like renaming new autosaved tabs! It helps me stay organized when I create many unsaved documents to store separate info for a few days. Any sane text editor won't let you rename a new document until you save it, but it is useful for some use cases.

elashri 2y ago

I use Sublime Text for that. I usually use it to paste something that I want to run but modify it (i.e docker-compose.yml) and I use it to write notes during my work and store in its buffers my session thinking. When I'm done or want to leave for a long time (I move these to obsidian). Also for quick edits I like being able to use build-in terminal command `subl` (i.e adding something to ~/.bashrc ). It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is the fastest program to open on all machines I tried before. I don't have a license but I think I should get one (they are generous about that and I silence myself by saying I'm poor academic researcher).

grugagag 2y ago
Ive been meaning to try Sublime for a while now. Will try and comment my experience at a future time. Thing is N++ never dissapointed and if Sublime wins my mindshare Id be having some tough decision to make. Also N++ is free and I developed plugins for myself. Maybe Sublime is still better, don’t know for sure.
- elashri 2y ago
  I didn't intend this as a comparison. I used Notepad++ for sometime along time ago when I was using windows primarily. I moved to using Linux and Mac and this in itself would mean I cannot use Notepad++ as it is not available on Mac. I was just sharing my experience using different tool to a similar workflow like you have. Being free and open source is good of course but for me Sublime has better integration and its UI is better. And it does support Mac.

nuancebydefault 2y ago

The fact that it auto saves any new tab that you filled with thoughts, todo's, pieces of logs,... is super handy. When rebooting they just appear as unsaved new tabs, as if you never closed notepad++. Zero keep effort. To toss, you just close the tab and click no.

ASalazarMX 2y ago
I like the small QoL features it has accrued over the years, like renaming new autosaved tabs! It helps me stay organized when I create many unsaved documents to store separate info for a few days. Any sane text editor won't let you rename a new document until you save it, but it is useful for some use cases.