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need a notepad alternative but not for like, permanent notes? something like a sticky note or a temporary list when i'm doing something and need to write stuff down and look back at it. notepad works but it's not good to look at (i know i can change the font and colors, but i'd rather not - it's a great README reader as it is)

priorities:


  • quick to launch (i don't want to wait more than a second for that shit. half a second, even.)
  • list support (checklists would be nice too)
    • side note: i'm not sure if i'd prefer a wysiwyg or a markup editor. i'm not sure i care really
  • nice to look at
  • lightweight (i swear to god i'm not downloading any other electron apps on this damned machine)

some things i've tried, and why they don't work:

  • notion
    • honestly i love notion. i use it multiple times a day for organizing lots of stuff, despite the dumb shit they've done to it (and despite the fact that the windows and android apps suck)
    • my problem with notion is just that it's not good for one-off notes. it's only good for things i want to keep around, personally (i.e. daily notes/habit trackers, planner stuff, idea notebooks, etc.). also the TTT (time to typing) is like 2 seconds, more if i actually want to open a page in an organized location
  • obsidian
    • i haven't used this much? it seems okay, launches somewhat quickly (~1 second), but it likes to do the same thing notion does and open your last visited page, and i can't find a setting that forces it to open a new document when launched or similar. maybe there is?
  • notepad++
    • i'm only including this because it's on the list of every notepad alternative, and yeah, sure, it's okay. i think it's more of a code editor though, and not even a particularly good one imo
  • vscode
    • i guess this'd work. it launches pretty quickly? quicker than i'd expect. but if i'm cold booting it it just opens the last project i had open, which is great for developer wooby, but not great for notetaking wooby.
    • still, it's nice that if you open a new file and just start writing in markdown it'll recognize that after a second and highlight things (and then have the markdown lint extension you installed yell at you for not starting with a h1)
  • fucking, wordpad?? idk
    • sure?? fine?? i guess?? i mean it checks most of the boxes?? but i don't know. i dislike ms word and wordpad is just watered down word

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in reply to @wooby's post:

maybe onenote? i haven't used it extensively but from my short time using it, it seems like it might fit the bill

i'll note that i personally use emacs w/ org-mode for this but that's a Whole Thing to try and learn if you're not already an emacs user

oh huh, somehow that isn't bloatware that microsoft pre-installs on every windows pc. either way i think it still wants to do the notion/obsidian/vscode thing and always open to your last page, but even if it doesn't i still feel like it's too organized and formal for what i'm looking for. i already have a note-taking space, i just need a "sticky note" space, something i can open up and write down like, "60 wood / 30 iron / 20 stone" when playing a game or something. nothing permanent, just temporary notes

now that i think about it it'd be kinda neat if it had a calculator built in so i could just type something like "5*20 wood" and have it spit out "100 wood" or similar. anyways apologies for the spam <3

Soulver is literally that if you’re on a Mac. I assume you’re not since you mentioned ctrl-n earlier. Which is a shame because I figured out how to always open it with a fresh note too. Let me know if I’m wrong and that’s helpful lol

The Soulver devs say OpalCalc is an alternative for Windows?

eternally cursed to hell and back. it also seems to want to always keep whatever i had written down from before (which i guess isn't the worst but u g h)

I gotta say, OpalCalc isn’t the prettiest but a 600K executable is a rare thing these days haha, I admire the heck out of that. Can’t do that with Electron for sure.

Oh shit it does RPN! If you start the line with a backslash lol but still, that’s sweet, RPN helps me a ton, I always want to get my numbers out and then figure out what to do with them