Textpad

Simple online notepad, no fancy stuff. Just write.

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Simple online notepad, no fancy stuff. Just write.

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Eva

Maker

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!

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10yr ago

Smart Templates by Sarbacane

@syndicatefx Not sure I'll dismiss my good ol' NotePad++, but let's give it a try ;)

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10yr ago

Eva

Maker

@paulodef I'm with you, but it depends on what you're doing, or need.

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10yr ago

@syndicatefx What are the 3 characters at the beginning of the saved file for? ï»¿ EF BB FF

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10yr ago

Eva

Maker

@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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10yr ago

@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.

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10yr ago

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

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10yr ago

Eva

Maker

@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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10yr ago

@syndicatefx awesome, thanks for sharing! Another question: any plans to add markdown support?

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10yr ago

Eva

Maker

@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.

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10yr ago