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>and anyone can access the web versions of Word for free if needed There are texts I don't want to write in a browser
There’s a million and one offline open source solutions that are higher quality than wordpad.
After trying every kind of fancy task management and note taking system from org-mode to Obsidian to Logseq, I now use a .rtfd (.rtf + images) on iCloud to act as a note-taking system / todo-list. I would have used pen and paper but I need to paste screenshots and URLs.
There's an iOS app called RTF Write for 99c. Now I always have my notes, tasks, and shopping, and above all, it's so simple and quick.
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There’s a million and one offline open source solutions that are higher quality than wordpad.
There a nearly infinite solutions that also contain malware, the one solution of the OS maker gets at least a little trust from me
>and anyone can access the web versions of Word for free if needed There are texts I don't want to write in a browser
There’s a million and one offline open source solutions that are higher quality than wordpad.
If it doesn't have rich text support, isn't lighter than anything in the OpenOffice family, and is as unstable as AbiWord, don't bother saying it.
Which free/open source alfernatives to WordPad for Windows do you recommend then? LibreOffice is huge and slow, MS Office Online requires Internet. How to edit simple RTF/DOC documents offline on Windows without downloading >300MB full LibreOffice suite? Only Abiword comes to my mind.
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They did indeed add LF support to Notepad, 5 years ago: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...
Thank you, though now I cannot anymore honestly state that MS did not introduce any new meaningful feature in Windows 10 ;).
Which free/open source alfernatives to WordPad for Windows do you recommend then? LibreOffice is huge and slow, MS Office Online requires Internet. How to edit simple RTF/DOC documents offline on Windows without downloading >300MB full LibreOffice suite? Only Abiword comes to my mind.
Html with contenteditable I guess?
Has anyone tried this before? I'm likely ignorant. But it would be a pretty exciting document publishing format.
This is the sort of non-consensual change that is the hallmark of proprietary software and drives me towards using free and open-source software every chance I get. I love WordPad's simplicity, and I'll miss it.
There are many arguments for FOSS. This isn’t one of them. Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever. Few users, if any, are depending on this app that hasn’t been getting attention for years. There’s plenty of replacement apps as good or better, including FOSS ones. If it was open source, the odds are no one would care to take over maintenance (though they could) sinc…