MemPad Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• How do you record your ideas throughout the day?

  I spend 90% of my time at a Windows keyboard, so use MemPad https://horstmuc.de/wmem.htm as a software version of a spiral-bound notebook. It does literally nothing other than being a stack of notepad pages that you can reorder or search. Source: about 1 year ago

• Dungeons and Dragons Digital Character Sheet and document formatting questions

  If he prefers to maintain plaintext notes somewhere else, the best tool I've found is a version of a sectionable spiral notebook. MemPad does the trick wonderfully. Source: almost 2 years ago

• got Linux running on a dell inspiron 8100 antix is the only distro that would show a display and that supported 32bit systems

  All Office programs, and most 'big' editors have outlining modes, but to me the small size is a necessary feature; Unhelpful Linux developers have often suggested that I use emacs in org-mode - but since I need to save 10.000's of files, each together with the creating software, a 600 MB installation is not what I want... I you use windows, take a look at MemPad. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the Best Wiki for a Self Hosted Home Lab?

  My personal help-file is literally over 9000 pages long, if printed. That is slightly unwieldy in a single text file. I want to keep things as simple as possible, make data-export/migration simple, and (Important!) be sure that the files can be read 30 years from now. So I use MemPad, a simple outliner that saves in a format that can be read by Notebook (or any other text editor) Extraction/export of... Source: about 2 years ago

• UPDATE: After reading 600+ of your comments, here is the updated list of open source Linux programs mostly for beginners (thus mostly gui).

  That looks interesting! The app that keeps me on windows is a small, .txt based, outliner - something that for some strange reason don't seem to exist in the 'nix-sphere. I have tried asking Linux forums for suggestions for a comparable program, but always get '[[REDACTED ]]off' answers... I keep literally thousands of outline files on removable media, and (for archival purposes) all needs to be followed by the... Source: over 2 years ago