> You know it's fairly trivial to do this in html with a few lines of code

If it wasn't then it wouldn't be a very good "world's simplest text editor", would it now? :P

Edit: It looks small enough that you could probably turn it into a bookmarklet so it wouldn't even need a server. Now that would be awesome.

I build a little scratchpad for personal use: https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/

I guess for the most part these sort of things start off solving a personal problem. Getting 15k monthly users is very impressive!

Scratchpad looks pretty nice actually!

I love it! :D

If you want to save to local storage with a fancy WYSIWYG, here's an 18-line html file that calls the Trix CDN:

https://gist.github.com/bachmeil/7c19e72b9a5c49a85e8cecb0b7a...

Can't say I use it very often, but it was cool being able to do it in a few minutes even though I'm not a web developer.

I wonder what people use this for as it is too simple -- in my opinion at least.

Use myTextarea

    to type plain text
    to remove markup from text
    to count words and characters

1) Notepad 2) Notepad 3) Word

offline trustworthy solutions for Windows And most of all I don't have to worry about losing control over the text.

The only benefit I see (if it is possible) is collaboration, but on a work-related environment why use a text instead of Google Docs (which I don't use either, but I see the benefit of audit trail)

Notepad2 does all of this.

For the first two I usually do Win+R, paste, Ctrl+A, copy.

Try Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V for a “plain paste”

I've found that this doesn't consistently work across applications (win 10), does anyone else here experience the same and/or have an idea why this is the case?

I thought it was something an application had to implement, but apparently it is a Windows function that applications have to enable. Definitely wish it was an OS-wide shortcut.

https://www.howtogeek.com/186723/ask-htg-how-can-i-paste-tex...

cmd-shift-v does this on Macs, as well.

Pro tip: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/

yeah I do that with sublime text...