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Notepad++
More like Notepad–, amirite
Dunno if I’m misunderstanding you or you’re misunderstanding the person you replied to, but Notepad++ is a third party program unaffiliated with windows or notepad. It’s also an astronomical step up from notepad and it’s free and has optional plugins and whatnot.
I’m aware, it was mostly a joke about these “features” making Notepad worse. Nevertheless, thank you :)
asks AI politely to show line break characters
Well that’s weird, because I didn’t need AI to improve my writing.
All it took was one very good and very short book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style
I don’t agree with everything in it, but I agree with most of it.
Personally I don’t use Notepad for writing writing. Its a functional writing app. A app for copying and pasting code, or making a list, or crude ascii art. If I need to bold something, or do text formatting, thats when I open up the several orders of magnitude larger office apps.
That’s another issue, but I agree. I was just addressing the idea that this is what people need to help them be better writers.
All this will do is to teach them how to better write specific sentences. If they even read the suggestion before using it.
I love notepad++, but to me, both have different uses. Notepad is like my basic sticky pad just to copy-paste basic stuff to it and come back to reference throughout the day. Also, notepad opens instantly and everything else is slightly slower. It’s just the reason why I like it more. Notepad++ is for editing and manipulating data for me.
I totally get that.
Check out Textpad. You might like it. The only nuisance with it is the default config settings are a little oddball (things like keyboard shortcuts, etc). But it’s highly configurable so you can set it up the way you like and then it’s good. It has more features than Notepad, but it’s still pretty simple and can do cool things like search files / folders for strings, has regex support, etc. But the extras stay out of your way and it’s pretty clean and simple for “notepad-like” usage.
Thanks! I will try it out. It’s always great when you find a new app to use.
*Linux mint text editor
The fuck? This must be on Win 11. My Notepad still has to be told whether to search Down or Up, just like in 1990.
As it ahould be!
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First, they came for Wordpad, and I did not speak out–because I did not use Wordpad…
Recently, another innocent app, Notepad, also got some AI features.
Dude, you just talked about Notepad. You are thinking of Microsoft Paint. Your article needs to be proofread.
Notepad++ ftw
Oh god not Notepad!
This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of notepad . . and will soon see the end of text entry itself.
*ohhshh . . pahhhh*
well cause the more software that has AI the more ways Microsoft has of collecting very personal data from you without your conscious content. They will likely be privy to whatever you write there even if you don’t really use the AI feature.
Is this so a user is assisted with AI or is it more that it’s yet another vector for Microsoft to be gathering more training data?
Why, yes, I believe I will gladly pay for your AI Notepad bullshit, Microsoft! Sign me right the fuck up.
