Hello everyone!
I'm Paulo Nunes, and i built TextPad.
I built it for personal use, copy/pasting text online, drafting ideas i want to publish, and taking notes when doing research without switching between a text editor and the browser.
Hope it's useful for you too, thank you!
@geonomad Can you tell me what software you're using to open your .txt file on your computer? Those characters are explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By...
I couldn't replicate that on any editors i use, but since TextPad saves file as "text/plain;charset=utf-8", that is the reason you might be seeing those characters at the beginning of your file, based on the wiki link above.
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@syndicatefx I am saving the file from Chrome/51.0.2704.103 on W10 and opening with Editpad Pro 5.4.5. You are right it is saving it as a UTF-8 stream instead of plain text. If I convert from UTF-8 to ANSI, they go away. No big deal. My editor was just expecting pure text in the file.
Love the simplicity! Is text stored locally (and securely) or is it on a server somewhere? I'm not familiar with how LocalStorage works. Great work on this @syndicatefx
@patrickryanlane Hey, thanks! Text is stored only on your browser, using the Web Storage API, no where else. In simple terms the browser has its own "data-base" to store key/value pairs. Read about the concept here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
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@syndicatefx awesome, thanks for sharing! Another question: any plans to add markdown support?
@patrickryanlane Nope, not at the moment. If i do it will only be for the download file extension(choose .txt or .md), but i'm not planning on adding syntax highlighting or previews.
@maxine_kerley_bowen Not sure what you mean by minimal margins. The margins on either side of the text are hard coded in the CSS, and get progressively smaller on smaller window sizes. But there is no way right now for a user to customize those settings.
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