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> We know how important Notepad is to so many of your daily workflows…

Perhaps the single funniest line ever penned by Microsoft.

Cannot imagine any “Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel” who use, let alone rely on, Notepad for any serious work.

EDIT: I stand corrected - mea culpa!

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I use it all the time as a temporary scratchpad or clipboard. It opens very quickly, it doesn’t have anything else other than a text area. Not sure what else should I use :) VSC? Opens too slow. Sticky notes? Not sure, slow and too complex for the task. Also it’s an advantage that it doesn’t save the state anywhere so I can just force quit and everything disappears.

I am missing Paint and Notepad on MacOS when I just need something that opens in a millisecond and I can paste in something temporarily.

notepad++ is a far superior product imo. so many useful features out of the box, and has plugins also.

* search in all opened docs * find/replace with regex * tabs to space * line operations etc

Very useful, and for my workflows on Windows, indispensible (even alongside wsl or powershell)

I use notepad++, but it nags me for updates more often than I would like. If I only need a quick dirty note, notepad is still better.

lol almost EVERY FREAKING DAY.

I still love it as a tool though.

There is a setting to turn that off.

Tie any text editor to a hotkey.

Most devs I've met use it, it's an excellent tool for getting rid of formatting or just having an instant window open where you can temporarily store some plaintext.

Let me blow your mind: you can use CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste text without formatting.

My mind isn't blown, this doesn't seem to work properly across all applications.

I just tested it now pasting some text from a website into Slack and it retained hyperlinks (I don't mean plaintext https:// ones, but <a href='..> ones) and all that junk. When you cleanse it through notepad you have a guarantee that none of that is left.

I thought the Ctrl+Shit+V paste trick worked in Outlook, but I'll be damned if I could make it work today...

I use it for taking quick notes fairly regularly - it's just a blank text input window and it opens immediately.

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