Try Obsidian.

forgotmypw17 · on Sept 3, 2023

Thank you for the suggestion, but Obsidian does not meet my needs. It is a completely different class of application.

I just want a basic rich-text editor that opens quickly and lets me quickly jot something down and save it as a file.

wordpad.exe is less than 3MB, while just the installer for Obsidian weighs in at 72MB.

system2 · on Sept 3, 2023

Well, the new notepad in win11 is very nice. Obsidian has many amazing plugins make it super easy to use and you don't need to worry about unsaved files crashing and disappearing.

Notepad++ is standard for code editing and extremely fast. I use all these 3 alternatives for different reasons but my #1 is still notepad.