Notepad
Notepad
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For folks who cannot do this due to it being a work-controlled machine or otherwise, you can use notepad++. (Obviously id rather this be a tipping point to ditch all the junk at once, but sometimes that isnt feasible)
That said, i find i still need a throwaway notepad for fast trashy notes. In that case ive just uninstalled the new notepad and re-downloaded the legacy notepad then re-aimed "notepad.exe" to the legacy one.
There are a few guides out there, just search your standard "how to get legacy notepad"
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Or, you can just turn Copilot off from the settings panel.
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That said, i find i still need a throwaway notepad for fast trashy notes.
My sibling in Talos, what do you think the tabs in N++ are for?
I have >100 tabs in my N++ install because it's so easy to throw some trash note in there forget about it, then be able to search all open docs for some random keyword I threw in there.
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I use n++ for fast notes that I might need later, such as quickly making a step-by-step instruction as I go along, and notepad as a glorified clipboard for stuff I don't want to be available later.
Having more than 100 notepad++ tabs would trigger the neat freak in me and force me to go through them all to save the important ones and delete the unneeded ones.-
Yep precisely this.
Notepad is where stuff i dont care about 5minutes from now goes to die.
Notepad++ is stuff ill probably take to my grave, or at least til next week.
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Having more than 100 notepad++ tabs would trigger the neat freak in me and force me to go through them all to save the important ones and delete the unneeded ones.
Yeah, I periodically (try to) do that, but the ADHD takes over before I get more than a dozen or so tabs in. So I've got all kinds of historical notes that may or may not be important. But that's what the 'search all open documents' button is for!
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You might wanna either backup %appdata%\Notepad++\backup\ or go to Settings->Preferences->Backup and change the directory into a folder that is already hitting your backups. Personally I have it aimed at a folder that is cloud synced (and that cloud has a local backup on my NAS).
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Good recommendation! I usually just copy that folder around when I need to, but auto backups are always better.
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Yeah you don't even need to save every new tab that you have random stuff noted down in. They've recently added a new feature to pin tabs as well, so I'm actually considering just making a notes.txt file somewhere and pinning that instead of all the new tabs I end up with.
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Interesting. I saw the icon, but I've never bothered to look into what it was for/how it worked. Thanks for giving me something to look into!
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No need to download anything really.
- Go to System -> Optional features and verify that Notepad is listed and if it isn't add it.
- Go to Apps -> Advanced settings for apps -> App executions aliases and disable Notepad.
- Enjoy the classic notepad again.
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Ah you are indeed correct. I'm probably thinking of classic paint, not notepad.
Either way, i have the downloader for ye old notepad and paint tucked away on and off my machine for future sake when my company middle management decides they want to try to push the new AI tools down our throats for productivity again.
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For folks who cannot do this due to it being a work-controlled machine or otherwise, you can use notepad++
That is assuming their work-controlled machine already has Notepad++ installed, right?
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It depends on how locked down it is. There is a portable version that doesn't require install, but also you might get in trouble for running exes from the web.
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Nope!
Amusingly there is a very large overlap in the companies that want to try to force ai tech crap onto their workers, but dont limit admin controls for users.
But to be more specific, what i meant by work-controlled is that you cant just install linux on a work machine or uninstall office products for alternatives due to company licensing.
Nothing preventing you from just not using that crap though of course but at that point you know your own company limits than i would so god speed!
Last thing you'd probably want to do is be forced into sitting in a class with Mr.MiddleManager / Mr.NepotismHire to go over why these AI products are actually good for you and they arent happy you circumvented that.
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At work I have to use Windows, Notepad++ is my safe place. It is fast, there's plugins for years, and it handles (with some wait time) 100 000 line long documents.
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