I hated Word for DOS, and went through the worthwhile pain of learning WordPerfect 5.1 instead. Still will use anything but Word (currently mess around with Open Office.)
May I suggest Zim for basic notetaking and personal documentation? Since trying it I rarely go back to Notepad. It autosaves, stores notes in a hierarchical hyperlinked structure like a wiki, and has basic formatting like Wordpad.
It fills the gap of a featureful notes organizer without being quite as complex as Notepad++. (which I use for coding)
There is even an option of chucking it online if you know what you're doing, so you can access your "wiki" from anywhere like Evernote. (but without a central server - you have to host it yourself)
I hated Word for DOS, and went through the worthwhile pain of learning WordPerfect 5.1 instead. Still will use anything but Word (currently mess around with Open Office.)
Notepad.exe has been vastly more useful to me both professionally and in my personal endeavors.
May I suggest Zim for basic notetaking and personal documentation? Since trying it I rarely go back to Notepad. It autosaves, stores notes in a hierarchical hyperlinked structure like a wiki, and has basic formatting like Wordpad.
It fills the gap of a featureful notes organizer without being quite as complex as Notepad++. (which I use for coding)
There is even an option of chucking it online if you know what you're doing, so you can access your "wiki" from anywhere like Evernote. (but without a central server - you have to host it yourself)
seems like a good allotment of features... however, also seems kinda big for a notepad. how long does it take to open?
I've been using it for years (on Linux) and it opens immediately, no noticeable delay, contents of the window are also immediately loaded.