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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Honestly, this blows. WordPad fills a niche between a full blown text editor and notepad. Most of my random daily notes use WordPad still when not OneNote.

[–] prole 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Notepad++ was a good alternative when I was running Windows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's an alternative to Notepad, not for Wordpad that has basic word processing formatting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Wow someone was using this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You can likely still grab the exe and use it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I recently started using a markdown based note taking program called Joplin, that might be useful for you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I love obsidian too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't get why they aren't retiring notepad instead. WordPad is just as light and fast while having more features.

Not that I really care, I never touch either ever since MS basically stopped developing them 25 years ago. Notepad++, atom, etc, there are so many superb lightweight editors out there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Probably don't use Atom though seeing as it was sunset at the end of 2022

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Notepad is absolutely a fantastic tool for stripping any formatting from text and loading a file exactly how you expect it. Like vim only without the easy to use shortcuts.