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Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad

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145 points itkeman | 1 comments | 22 Jan 25 11:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source

As a native Windows user who switched to macOS a few years back, one thing I never got over was the simplicity and usefulness of the old school Notepad app. This app aims to recreate that very same experience, cross-platform and easily installable as a PWA.

I've been using this for personal use for around 2 years and I figured it was time to share it with the world. Criticism, issues and PRs are welcome. Thanks!

1. quintu5 ◴[22 Jan 25 23:32 UTC] No.42798688[source]▶
I’ve got a chrome extension sitting in the review queue right now that leans a bit more dev-centric in that it opens a Monaco-based editor (with markdown preview) whenever it detects you’ve opened a raw text file in the current tab.

It also supports creating new documents, but that’s more of an ancillary use case (for me anyhow).

The nice thing is that it’s 100% local.