Who else uses Notepad for making to-do lists just because it opens quickly?

Tangurena

Helpful hint for notepad:

At the first line of the file, put

.LOG

This will then put a timestamp at the end of the file every time you open it.

someperson

So you use Notepad as a notepad? Interesting…

bglazer

This has resulted in some hilarious unnamed.txt files on my desktop. I'll open something hungover one morning and it will just say "Chiccken" or "BEer imn car".

My favorite was "AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR"

rchase

I always used notepad, but now I use Notepad++. You never have to close a text file. It launches, and all of the several projects, note lists, and todos come up, nicely tabbed. It's as fast, or faster than notepad, and has many more features.

MirkOutSwirvOut

I use "a" notepad...the paper kind. Easier to carry around with me. :)

DarkBlueAnt

Predictions for the mundane top story on Reddit tomorrow:

-Who else brushes their teeth with a finger when they don't have a toothbrush?

-Who else sometimes slips their feet into shoes without untying the laces?

-Who else sends reminders to their own e-mail addresses?

-Who else is embarrassed to fart in toilet stalls?

toto27

notepad is basicly my extended clipboard mostly

ElBeh

I use Google docs for everything (they wish).

robjob

I use notepad to remove formatting from stuff when copy pasting between office programs. It's less clicks than "Paste Text Only" and is good at unfucking spreadsheets.

SarcasticMan

I used to use textpad for notes and had todo lists for several topics in my documents folder. I've switched to using onenote for school and all my todo lists are in that now.

hoyfkd

tomboy

Edit: I should point out that I have been using Keepnote lately. It is a new project and well worth the time to try out. It uses rich text, which gives you more flexibility that tomboy formating-wise, and is similar to keynote.

Vystril

I just open a terminal and use vim.

p4mi

Org-mode in Emacs. Org-mode is the reason enough by itself to learn Emacs.

high_brace

I use notepad++. Its free, has tabs, and remembers what tabs you had open last time you used it.

withad

If I recall correctly, Notepad won an award a while ago (most useful basic coding tool or something) and they tried to present an award but no one at Microsoft actually knew who first made it.

ludenu

I switched from firefox to chrome because chrome is like the notepad of browsers.

rbnc

LinuxFreeOrDie

Wow guys really. I hate to be that guy, but asking if anyone else uses notepad for its intended purpose? The top voted comment quotes you and says "same here". No new information added.

Is this what askreddit has become? This is so pointless. Of course people use notepad.

coup

Yep, and I always use it to copy and paste unformatted text between places.

johnnyenglish

I use vim. Advantages over notepad:

'dd' to delete a line (with 'p' to put it back somewhere else)
syntax highlighting to emphasise lines I have tagged as 'important' or 'urgent'
easy incremental search

joeyisapest

I use empty file folders. also quick.

right click

New folder

type what you need to type

wesmwatson

For the poor and moral folks who won't buy or torrent MS Office, you should know that Wordpad (not Notepad, Wordpad) in Vista and 7 has all the features that you actually use (as well as the EXACT same interface) from Microsoft Word. Open it up sometime, you'll be amazed at how much less it sucks than the XP one.

The only things it doesn't have are headers and margins (sorry, English majors) and charts, which I do really like.

I'm pretty sure that's what it's for.

weicool

I'm on a Mac and I use Stickies.

squirrel5978

EMACS. It should never be not running.

bloodwire

I use vim for the same reason, it opens really quickly, it is fast to use, and much more powerful than notepad.

gemidjy

vim opens faster. I use that.

detarmstrong

Notepad giant meh.

Tomboy: http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/

stalk_of_fennel

I use an actual notepad because it opens even faster. its also so much more portable.

misplacedme

I don't. If my computer is on, it's guaranteed to have notepad++ running. No need for smelly old notepad.

HighOnAmbien

I use gedit which is very similar and opens instantly.

Fritchard

when my phone rings at work WIN+R+"notepad" + ENTER is like second nature. I noticed my wife do the same thing last night. Almost teared up a bit.

longshot

Windows-key + r

Type notepad

Hit return

Bam! Notepad is open.

musashiXXX

From a bash shell:

cat <<EOF | lp
1) Toothpaste
2) Toilet paper
3) Dog food
[...]
20) Beer
EOF

Kozmo199

I used to use notepad, but when I got Windows 7 the gadgets actually became useful and didn't take up 40% of my processing power to run. Now, I have a Post-It's desktop gadget that it's even better, because I can just move my mouse to the lower right and see all my notes, instead of having to boot notepad and open a "notes.txt" file.

bobthenarwhal

Same idea, I use TextEdit or Googledocs. Does anyone have similar tips and tricks for TextEdit, like what was listed for notepad logs above?

BoUnCy1337

Macs have the stickies program just for this purpose =P

calc3892

I have so many .txt files on my computer it's not even funny.

notepad.exe <3

lordted

TextEdit

trevordtodd

I always use Notepad to remove any Fonts from texts...

Windows 7 stickynotes for me.

I use notepad to remove formatting from everything else before pasting it to either Word or OpenOffice. Is there a better way to do this?

JumpingJesus

I use cat.

As in:

$ cat > todo.txt

something
something else
last thing

^D

$

Vim to change the TODO list.

LoveAndDoubt

Yes, and I have many "New Text Document (3).txt" files to show for it.

ideal2545

I fucking love notepad

getoutofmyhead

I use Notepad++. It opens just as fast, but is much more useful.

Wmodj2

Notepad and Paint. I use paint everyday for quickness.

jollyllama

Same idea, but TextEdit on the Mac. Why would you ever use a tool that's heavier than you need it to be?

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