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Update: Arg, and NoteTab plug
I am making progress on my behind-ness. I finished the two things that needed to get done yesterday at work, plus I also got a bunch of stuff organized for school, and even part of a lecture written. One of the benefits of getting organized is that I found another lecture mostly-written that I'd forgotten about, so I am 75% prepared for the last two classes of the semester. Go me! Sometime on Monday I will finish the mostly-written lecture (on ethics, DRM, and copyright), and hopefully finish the last lecture (flashy what's next Web 2.0 stuff).
So after spending a day getting files organized I feel compelled to extol the virtues of my very favorite piece of freeware out there. It's NoteTab Light, and it's just plain awesome. I've been using it for years, since grad school (1999), and it never occurred to me just how awesome it is and how much I love it until yesterday.
I use it in a number of ways, for a number of things. It totally replaces Notepad and Wordpad for me, and on the whole it replaces Word, too. I prefer to do most things that are non-graphical in just plain text files, both for space reasons and because I loathe MS Word with the heat of a thousand suns (and trust me, I know Word and all it's little persnickety oddities better than I want to). NoteTab is also a great little HTML editor, as it has the handy "view in browser" feature and has all the tags you could want built right into a little menu down the side.
But the aspect of NoteTab that I heart the most is the ability to have multiple documents open at the same time, in tabs. I've always used it to take quick notes in meetings, which I would then name based on project. You can set it to always remember which tabs you have open when you close the app, so that the next time you launch they all open right back up. Very good if you're scattered, or if you're impatient. (hello)
I wasn't really putting any effort into learning its capabilities, however, until it just occurred to me yesterday that it probably has a feature that will allow you to open a bunch of tabs on demand, i.e., if I want to open all the files that have to do with my job, I can click on one thing and 10 files will open. And of course it has that feature! Happy day! So I just finished setting up three topics, work, school and personal, and now I can focus more closely on the task I'm supposed to be working on, rather than having tabs running off the page.
I <3 NoteTab Light. I <3 it very much! I love it so much I might actually buy the Standard ($19.95) or the Pro version ($29.95). They deserve it.
So after spending a day getting files organized I feel compelled to extol the virtues of my very favorite piece of freeware out there. It's NoteTab Light, and it's just plain awesome. I've been using it for years, since grad school (1999), and it never occurred to me just how awesome it is and how much I love it until yesterday.
I use it in a number of ways, for a number of things. It totally replaces Notepad and Wordpad for me, and on the whole it replaces Word, too. I prefer to do most things that are non-graphical in just plain text files, both for space reasons and because I loathe MS Word with the heat of a thousand suns (and trust me, I know Word and all it's little persnickety oddities better than I want to). NoteTab is also a great little HTML editor, as it has the handy "view in browser" feature and has all the tags you could want built right into a little menu down the side.
But the aspect of NoteTab that I heart the most is the ability to have multiple documents open at the same time, in tabs. I've always used it to take quick notes in meetings, which I would then name based on project. You can set it to always remember which tabs you have open when you close the app, so that the next time you launch they all open right back up. Very good if you're scattered, or if you're impatient. (hello)
I wasn't really putting any effort into learning its capabilities, however, until it just occurred to me yesterday that it probably has a feature that will allow you to open a bunch of tabs on demand, i.e., if I want to open all the files that have to do with my job, I can click on one thing and 10 files will open. And of course it has that feature! Happy day! So I just finished setting up three topics, work, school and personal, and now I can focus more closely on the task I'm supposed to be working on, rather than having tabs running off the page.
I <3 NoteTab Light. I <3 it very much! I love it so much I might actually buy the Standard ($19.95) or the Pro version ($29.95). They deserve it.
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You totally would have talked me into getting NoteTab Light (maybe even the Standard, to have spell-check), but I have a Mac. Oh, well.
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Or maybe it would be good for work? Does your work place use Mac, too?
I find it so handy. I love the tabs and the remembering what it had opened the last time I closed it. Fab!
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I am also provided with something nice for html stuff, though I can't remember what it's called. It's got the multiple tabs and the viewing in browser feature.
At home, I just do everything I can to make sure Bill Gates doesn't get any of my money. I understand that some of his stuff actually works nowadays, and part of me wants to reward that kind of behavior, but the other part of me enjoys holding a grudge.