Yikes. I’ve had too many unfortunate experiences like that too 
For quick notes, I usually use https://docs.new, which instantly opens up a new Google Doc. It autosaves and keeps a version history automatically.
I hope, at least, you didn’t click save after making all those undos!
Well, no, but I also didn’t click save before making them. Or at least, an unknown number of edits before making the undos.
Too late, I know, but Notepad++ is a massive improvement to Notepad. It does the same simple job, just better.
It is free.
I use a Mac, have done for several years, but not really found a comparable simple text editor. BBedit is close.
(Thanks to whatever irritating AI my google search results uses - For most users, the easiest way is to right-click a text file, select “Open with,” choose Notepad++, and check the box to “Always use this app”. )
This just happened and has to be a contender. Goddamned Google have decided to get rid of my power button, my actual power button I need to turn off my phone, and replace it with their crappy “digital assistant”. WTF!? Who would possibly think that’s a good idea (it happened in the most recent Android software update)!?
You can change it back in one of the settings, for now at least (that option will probably go away in a future update)
Minor annoyance of the day: the webmail (i.e., browser) version of Microsoft Outlook email.
Click on an unread email and 3/4 of the time the message opens in the current browser window. The other 1/4 occurrences, it opens in a NEW window instead, significantly smaller so to read it you need to resize the window.
What annoys me is the inconsistency. If you open an email into a new window, you’d want to close the window when done. If you open an email into the existing window, you’d want to click “Inbox” to return to the list view of messages.
(native environment: MacOS, Brave Browser)
Strange, I’ve been using Microsoft’s webmail for 25 years (currently on Chrome, Windows 11), and that never happened to me. A single click on the mail opens it in the preview pane on the right hand site of the window, and a double click opens it in a new window, consistently. Maybe your left mouse button is wonky?
That’s pretty weird. You’re not accidentally middle-clicking to open in a new tab?
I hate this too. I didn’t realize there was a setting to change it back (where?).
But you might also be able to bring back the old menu with power button + up volume (the opposite of the screenshot shortcut).
That’s actually useful info. I bet I’m clicking, don’t see it responding, and click a second time soon enough it gets treated as a double click.
On the subject of webmail, in Yahoo’s webmail interface clicking on an email opens them email in the preview pane, but clicking on the sender filters your inbox to only show emails from that sender. And it’s really easy to accidentally click the sender when you’re trying to open an email. So if I’m not careful I’ll try to open an email and instead end up applying an unwanted filter to my inbox that I have to then undo. The first several timed it happened I had no idea why it was happening, until I figured out it was because of exactly where I was clicking on the email.
As long as we’re complaining about email interfaces…
Any client that makes it impossible to read raw headers is complicit in fraud.
I’m looking at you mobile and ipad Apple mail, but also many, many others. By far the best way to detect whether an email is genuine is to look at the headers. “Hmm, this email claims to be a password reset message from my IT department, but then why is it delivered from a server with the top level domain .ch?”
I don’t care that “most people” won’t be able to interpret the headers. Maybe they should learn. Or even copy and past them into one of those websites that will interpret them for you. Or, when they ask me if the email is real, copy and paste the headers to me.
Oh no, I’m away from my computer and I got this urgent email telling me about an emergency, should I ignore it, and maybe the emergency is real and there are consequences; follow the instructions and maybe get hacked; or click the “show headers” button and see if the email at least originates where it claims to come from? Oh yeah, I can’t do that because there is no such button, even buried two levels deep in hamburger menus.
Lump that in with most OSes defaulting to hiding file extensions.
Yeah, that’s a PITA. First thing I turn off after install.
I use the Libby app to listen to books. I have a “wish list” of all the books I want to listen to at some point. Looking for a new book to listen to from my list drives me bonkers. I look through the list and will click on one to see the description. If I’m not in the mood for that particular book, I hit the back arrow to keep looking. Instead of bringing me to where I left off, it goes all the way back to the top of the list. UGH!
I share your outrage. I have to use Outlook for work and by default to see the headers you have to open the message, click File and then click Properties to open a non-re-sizable window where the headers are displayed in 8 point font in tiny rectangular field that requires lots of scrolling to get to the important parts. At least it lets you add the Message Options command to the quick-access toolbar to skip the open, click File, click Properties steps, but it opens the same non-re-sizable window.
edited to add: typing this out I just noticed that title of the information window is Properties, but the quick-access toolbar command is called Message Options, which now annoys me.
My most recent contribution:
I just flew to Las Vegas for a three-day expo. (I had no choice as to location.) It was a long flight with a layover in Minneapolis (the square airport that always brings you in at one corner and makes you walk to the opposite corner for your next flight) and I was pretty worn out. When I walked into the chaos of the casino floor to register, I saw that there were some kiosks that could be used for this purpose. Great! The place was very noisy and I wear hearing aids, so I wouldn’t have to keep asking a clerk to speak louder.
The kiosk wants me to start by scanning my passport, DL, or CC, which I’m not too happy about, but I proceed. I then have to confirm all my choices, enter a phone number and e-mail, and verify the last 4 of the CC to be used for payment. I’m beginning to lose my patience. Next, it wants me to read all the policies and acknowledge them. Next, I have to agree to a deposit of $100 for incidentals that will be refunded. After several e-signatures, I end up at what may or may not be the final screen. The “PROCEED” button at the bottom is grayed out, though the “BACK” button is active. I can’t go any further. There is NO indication whatsoever about any missing information or exactly why I can’t proceed. I even go back a few screens to see if I missed something. Nope. The only thing I lack is a functional “PROCEED” button.
So, after wasting all this time and giving some anonymous kiosk all my information, I give up. Did it actually bill anything to my CC yet? Who knows? I walk about 30 yards to a registration clerk and state that I can’t check in at the kiosk. The clerk acts like I’m being a PITA. “Oh, it seems to work fine for most people!” And then she proceeds to check me in using traditional methods. It’s much faster than the kiosk, though I have to continually ask her to slow her speech and speak up because all hell is breaking loose at the dozens of slots behind me. At the end, I also ask her to check to see if my CC was double-billed. Thankfully, it was not.
Who the heck designs a multi-step check-in process that wants all my personal and CC information with absolutely no indicators when something goes wrong or necessary data are not supplied?
I’ve had a similar experience on my phone or computer trying to complete forms; I’ve missed some checkbox I needed to tick or some field somewhere on the form but it doesn’t indicate at all where on the page I need to look.
There are also those that make you scroll to the end of a long document before the OK button becomes clickable. But they don’t tell you that beforehand, so it just looks broken.
I only ever did one web project with Asp.net and C# more than fifteen years ago, but I remember that when setting up forms, it had a genuine mechanism for each input field to define and evaluate the valid input and if not filled out according to that definition when the user hit “send”, “confirm” or “ok”, jump to the field in question, mark it red and throw out an error message you could define as a hint for the user. I assume that other frameworks have similar mechanisms, so I wonder why some developers are so goddamn lazy not to implement it and confuse and frustrate the users.