online notepad?

[clayton_e]

I'd like something other than a blog, something that I sign into with a password where I could just jot down a few ideas and have them arranged not by date, but by topic.

Blogs are similar to this, but their time-oriented outline make them not fitting for what I'd need in a service.

Does it exist?

[Scott Plaid]

Start a gmail account, save your thoughts as drafts, give the descriptive subjects, and list your drafts by subject, not date. Theoretically, that should work. Come to think of it, it would probably work with your yahoo account.

[clayton_e]

ah, thank you, I actually e-mailed the gmail staff right before starting this asking them to add a notepad feature, but that should be sufficient. I've been (and have been for several years) just e-mailing myself notes, but they get buried and even with gmail I can't find them if I've forgotten the topic.

Great idea, thank you much.

[TellMeI'mNotCrazy]

Originally Posted by Scott_plaid

Start a gmail account, save your thoughts as drafts, give the descriptive subjects, and list your drafts by subject, not date. Theoretically, that should work. Come to think of it, it would probably work with your yahoo account.

I think (but can't verify from work) that Yahoo mail actually has its own Notes feature. Only used it once to jot a phone number down so I don't know what the organization options are but I do know that I put the number there about 2 years ago, and it's still sitting there as of a couple of months ago.

[engineer_comp_geek]

Yahoo mail does have a notepad feature. I just checked.

[clayton_e]

I've used that before when I used to have a yahoo addy. I just didn't want to log into two mail services, one of which I barely use anymore and is crowded with a bunch of other features, just to check my notes. I'm suprised Gmail hasn't covered this yet, they seem to have a bunch of other useless bells and whistles that don't really do that much.

[rowrrbazzle]

Some blog software such as Movable Type and TypePad allow you to assign categories to blog entries and then display them by a given category. As I understand it, however, then you have to arrange a hosting site yourself.

Livejournal and Blogspot don't have this feature. This discussion has some information.