Second that recommendation. If you actually need what Notepad is for, switch to ++ for major improvements in capabilities
OTOH …
Notepad isn’t and never was a word processor. It’s a bare-bones text editor.
Although if you’re not an IT person and you’re using Notepad or the like for anything at all you’re probably using the wrong tool for whatever you think your mission is.
It’s so last century for any writing or noting task except hand-editing script files or raw data dumps; tasks pretty well limited to propeller heads. And I say that with respect as a former propeller head.
I use Notepad to store my recipes, make shopping lists, and track my budget, in addition to general note-taking, because it’s capable of everything I need it to do in order to do those things and I avoid writing by hand whenever possible, both because I’m left-handed and my writing usually gets smudged by the side of my palm, and because writing for extended periods of time gives me cramps.
In other news, the most popular game on Steam is now a bare-bones Cookie Clicker clone that people are auto-playing with bots so that they can win rare skins and sell them on the Steam marketplace, because NFTs are sooooooooooo 2021 and grifters gonna grift.
Another local one; Seattle’s recently ousted chief of police, who was fired four years into the job due to the city facing multiple lawsuits over discrimination and retaliation on his part, is now playing the Kevin Spacey gambit to try and prove his “innocence”.
I too write all that stuff down and more. For the same set of reasons as you, other than being a leftie, which I am not. I used to do that via Notepad too, just like you.
But for about the last 20 years I’ve use a tool designed for that sort of collection of semi-random sorta free-form notes about whatever: OneNote. It’s a great invention that’s part of MS Office. The big advantage to me is that you (I) don’t end up with a collection of separate files whose names and folders you need to remember. And there’s infinite undo so I can’t lose anything.
Back when my wife was alive it had the advantage that she and I could access the same e.g. shopping list on our respective PCs, tablets, and phones, and all 6 devices always had the same real-time updated content. Pretty magic. Now I’m down to one Surface tablet/PC and one phone, but the real-time sync is still handy.
Surely if you lose your keys you are going to look for them in the place you think they are? [in this case where they probably dropped out of your pocket]
I went to King’s Island multiple times as a kid since my mom is from Ohio and we’d go to the state sometimes during Summer vacation to visit her family. I specifically remember riding on The Beast as a kid.
I don’t know if I’m pitting those who write these articles or the subjects of the articles (or maybe myself for clicking on them) but my Google News feed often offers me articles about people being shocked to discover very basic things. Today I’m told that people are shocked to discover that the “g” in “5g” stands for “generation”.
No, 3G was certainly a very widespread term. I remember when it came out, it was a big deal. It started rolling out in 2002-2003 in the US.
2G was less-advertised because it came out in the early ‘90s, when cell phones weren’t very common. By the time cell phones became a standard thing a decade later, 2G was already the standard so there was little need to advertise it.
Swell story out of Michigan about Republican State Representative Neil Friske, arrested by Lansing police following an incident in the wee hours of Thursday morning in which he allegedly chased a stripper from his home. Police responding to a call of a man with a gun and possible shots fired took the (aptly named?) Friske into custody, and he faces potential sexual assault and weapons charges.
To top it off, Friske’s re-election campaign released a statement saying he “is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right” (terrific damage control, guys). And naturally he’s a member of the House Freedom Caucus which is “focused on traditional conservative values”.
getting collared at 2:45 a.m. Thursday by Lansing PD because, according to an initial report by the MIRS news service, he had “chased an adult dancer after a disagreement”
I wonder if he was baring more than his arms at that time.
