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Devine Lu Linvega

I didn't think it'd be so useful, but I'm really enjoying using Note Pad to keep track of fleeting thoughts and misc TODOs.
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Devine Lu Linvega

Normally the thought of an application saving changes without my say-so would irk me, but for quick TODOs, it's alright.

Ed Davies

@neauoire That any application makes you think about saving at all is an artificial complication arising from the differences in price and speed of core and disk storage [¹] which we've got so thoroughly baked into our systems and ways of thinking that we hardly notice it now.

[¹] Yes, I really mean 1970s little rings on wires and rusty dinner plate-sized bits of metal.

Devine Lu Linvega

@edavies I disagree, but to each their own metaphors :)

Kartik Agaram

@neauoire Oh interesting, I wasn't aware anybody disliked autosave 🤔 Only reason I ever got irked by it was if an application didn't have undo. Then every keystroke feels like a minefield.

thedæmon

@neauoire Into classic mac esthetics today? :flan_guns:​

mirth

@neauoire Having used the Mac Notepad quite a lot in the 90s, agreed. Scrapbook was nice too. Useful without a lot of complexity.

Andy Alderwick

@neauoire Thank you for reminding me of the cute notepad program I got for the CPC back in 1992!

cpc-power.com/index.php?page=d

Notepad displaying on top of the QuickCMD prompt on an Amstrad CPC emulator. It's similar to the Macintosh® notepad, and displays “© by Markus Zietlow, Telephone 02339/3442” in the title bar. I've scribbled some calculations in the notepad page itself as I figure out how much RAM it needs to allocate.
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