This one, for example, covers installation (easy peasy) and basic plugin management.

If you are new to Notepad++ feel free to take a look at some of the many nice tutorials out there. For now, we’ll focus on its user-defined syntax highlighting capabilities. This open source text editor supported by a pretty cool community has dozens of amazing functionalities (extensible even further with a neat plugin system) that we may discuss in some other post. You have to be no programmer to appreciate Notepad++. Draw close, forgetful friends: we’ll need a couple of things to move forward.

For these occasions (and many other you can potentially experience) I have put together this thingy called ToDo++, a dark syntax highlighting scheme to have better, more lightweight and more intuitive plain text ToDo lists.

Say small projects (this one is itself a good example), or quick annotations not urgent enough so as to justify the hassle of a full-fledged task manager, but nevertheless interesting to explore at some point. Even if I love heavier task management tools there are cases in which it is just too much. Thing is, I like to save notes in plain text: it’s easy, simple and useful.

txt files with notes all over my desktop and document folders.

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