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
