NoteTab Light V6.2    Suggested by Andrew Lee - Updated by Ennovy on 1 Sep 2010 2MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (1118) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (13) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 Webfork: Excellent program but "No multiple-level undo/redo" unless you get the Pro version makes it pale in comparison to programs like PSPad: http://portablefreeware.com/?id=15 [2007-09-08 10:43]

 Portable Paul: Alright, i'm gonna coin another term here. Partially free software that is an Ad for a paid upgrade version of itself is Halfware. all in favor? [2007-09-09 15:58]

 brad: If the sole reason for this is to promote some "pro" version, it shouldn't be here imo. [2007-09-10 12:53]

 MrDetermination: "Portable Paul: Alright, i'm gonna coin another term here. Partially free software that is an Ad for a paid upgrade version of itself is Halfware. all in favor?"

Aye [2007-09-10 19:00]

 Danny: Nothing much has changed since I last used this program. It's a shame that most of the really good features are in the Pro version. I'll stick with wSciTE for now. [2007-09-13 06:19]

 USB Steve: I used NoteTab Light long before finding SciTE. One really nice feature in NoteTab Light that I haven't found in SciTE (or other text editors) is the regex search-and-replace. I love SciTE and have carried it on my USB drive for several years, but when I need to do a surgical search-and-replace, I always go back to NoteTab.
(However, if SciTE would fulfill this one teeny, tiny need; I would switch and never look back.) [2007-09-13 15:15]

 LarryH: NoteTab 5.x Light/Standard/Pro can all be "more portable", if the appropriate ini file is placed in the NoteTab directory along with the exe.
Edit the line UseProfileFolder=0. This tells NoteTab to store all files in the NoteTab directory, rather than the user Application Folder.
Using the /usb command line switch tells NoteTab to look on the USB drive if the drive letter stored in the ini file is not found. [2007-11-08 16:35]

 Deepak Bhattarai: Thanks to Note tab developer. Im feeling easy to edid the html texts. [2008-07-16 12:24]

 Bruce: A great editor. Version 6.1 was released recently. [2009-06-04 18:13]

 Scott: Hi, just to inform you about NoteTab Light -

This does NOT write settings to the app folder as stated. On Vista HP the settings are written here:

C:/Users/Scott/AppData/Roaming/NoteTabLight

Three folders and four files have been written there. Is there a way to store these in the app folder?

Thanks [2009-08-17 07:41]

 Scott: Sorry should've looked at previous comments feel free to delete my comments.

I think you should add How To Make It Portable in the description though. [2009-08-17 07:49]

 Dirk: I'm a professional writer, been using NoteTab Light for going on 10 years now (maybe longer). It is without a doubt my most used and favourite prog. It is fast, flexible, able to load as many open text files as you have memory in your PC for, and very adjustable. Each file is tabbed for easy navigation. The options for tailoring it to very precise individual needs are many. The drop-down menus can be tailored, as can the popup right-click menu. I write all my material in NoteTab, highlight, cut/copy drag and drop between open tabs (currently I have 187 open working files which are saved at close and reopened when I open the app), and when ready, click 'copy all' in the relevant file and paste into a new Word doc for formatting. I have NEVER had a problem with this app, in tens of thousands of files written. It has never frozen, crashed or trashed a file. It is rock-solid and absolutely free. The Light version is much faster than the Standard and Pro (which I have tried, but they didn't offer me anything that I can't do with the Light). I could go on ad nauseum, but the bottom line is that this is by far the best programme I have used in the 25 years I have been using computers, and I still have not explored some of things it can be used for. I have used a number of word processing apps, and for sheer simplicity and functionality (i.e. writing and editing words) it can't be beaten. Each to his own, I guess. [2010-03-02 21:28]

 Shyfer: AkelPad is the best notepad replacement I found. Small, light, fast and powerfull. [2010-09-01 19:24]

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