<story><title>RIP Microsoft WordPad</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wordpad-gone-windows-11-1851144100</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpizza</author><text>This is slightly off topic but might be helpful to some people who use both Notepad on Windows and TextEdit on Mac but are tired of the open document screen that starts by default when opening TextEdit. For example, I take calls while at my Windows based workstation. When I&amp;#x27;m starting a phone call, I instinctively open notepad and jot down notes while on the phone. I don&amp;#x27;t usually save the file but I will complete the task I wrote down and&amp;#x2F;or document the call in another program after the fact. However, when I&amp;#x27;m on my Mac I can&amp;#x27;t just quickly open TextEdit and jot down notes. When opening TextEdit I&amp;#x27;m prompted to open a file or click the new document button. This throws me off my workflow since I&amp;#x27;m used to NotePad immediately opening a new document buffer to write in. I found a workaround on the Apple support forums here:&lt;p&gt;1) Quit TextEdit
2) In the Terminal, type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile -bool false
3) Open TextEdit and presto!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discussions.apple.com&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;253444981?sortBy=best&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discussions.apple.com&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;253444981?sortBy=best&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyriakos</author><text>I use notepad++ on windows and have open all the time. Any more I want to write down I open a new tab. Notepad++ keeps the tabs even if not saved and automatically reopens them next time you start it. Combined with search in open files feature it makes it extremely useful.</text></comment>
<story><title>RIP Microsoft WordPad</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wordpad-gone-windows-11-1851144100</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpizza</author><text>This is slightly off topic but might be helpful to some people who use both Notepad on Windows and TextEdit on Mac but are tired of the open document screen that starts by default when opening TextEdit. For example, I take calls while at my Windows based workstation. When I&amp;#x27;m starting a phone call, I instinctively open notepad and jot down notes while on the phone. I don&amp;#x27;t usually save the file but I will complete the task I wrote down and&amp;#x2F;or document the call in another program after the fact. However, when I&amp;#x27;m on my Mac I can&amp;#x27;t just quickly open TextEdit and jot down notes. When opening TextEdit I&amp;#x27;m prompted to open a file or click the new document button. This throws me off my workflow since I&amp;#x27;m used to NotePad immediately opening a new document buffer to write in. I found a workaround on the Apple support forums here:&lt;p&gt;1) Quit TextEdit
2) In the Terminal, type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile -bool false
3) Open TextEdit and presto!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discussions.apple.com&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;253444981?sortBy=best&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discussions.apple.com&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;253444981?sortBy=best&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phreack</author><text>I just use Sublime Text for that. It opens immediately on all OSs</text></comment>