You can improve a text editor without making it more complex. TextEdit on the Mac is just as minimal as Notepad, perhaps a little more so (because its menu's on

You can improve a text editor without making it more complex. TextEdit on the Mac is just as minimal as Notepad, perhaps a little more so (because its menu's on the top rather than in the window), but it has powerful support for fonts, page layouts, and the like that you can access if you ever need it. I actually use it as my main word processor in most situations because it's powerful enough to handle it.