A Power-Packed Midget.... (NoteTab Light)

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Product:	NoteTab Light
Date:	21/02/01 (182 review reads)
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Advantages: Full-featured, powerful scripting language to automate tasks; lots of little plusses that make it a perfect Programmers text editor

Disadvantages: no outline view, no binary code filter

Go on, take my browser. Take my Photoshop Pro. Wipe out my mp3's. Just keep your cotton-pickin' fingers OFF my Note Tab Light!

Note Tab Light advertises itself as a replacement for Notepad, and it is, but it is so much more. It's the first application I open when I turn on my computer, and I use it constantly throughout the day.

SO WHAT DOES IT DO??
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*Notepad replacement
Fookes Software, the makers of Note Tab Light (and its big brothers, Pro and Standard)call it a text editor, but that barely scratches the surface of what it does. For starters, a single click will make it your default text editor to open anytime another application calls for Notepad. If by some unlikely far reach of the imagination, you'd prefer to go back to using Notepad, a single click will switch things back.


***File Handling
So now you're asking -- but why would I want to use Note Tab instead? How about the ability to open multiple files and easily switch between them? I've had as many as fifty open at once without appreciable degradation in performance. Open files are noted by a tab at the top of your screen. To switch to a different one, click on the tab and voila! There you are! In addition to the standard Open, Close, Save and Print options, the File menu includes options to close or save all documents, and the Document menu allows you to rename or delete files from within the application, as well as mark them read-only.

***Document Editing
Ever wish you could do quick cut and paste from a document or webpage to 'take notes' as you go along? Among the document options is 'Use as Pasteboard' which automatically pastes any text you copy in any application to the document flagged as pasteboard. No need to even switch to Note Tab to do the paste.

Note Tab allows you to open a document as a 'second window' letting you have two documents open side by s
ide for drag and drop cut and paste. A simple click in the Modify menu lets you convert to or from HTML or XHTML, change text from upper to lower case, indent, unindent, number, list, alphabetize..


***Clip Libraries
This is what sets Note Tab text editors head and shoulders above the rest. Even if you don't ever use the scripting language (which is as powerful as many programming languages), Note Tab Light comes with a full library of clipbooks. Clipbooks are collections of macros and wizards to automate often repeated tasks. Create HTML tables and forms, automate the uploading or downloading of files, check webpages in a browser. If you DO use the language to write your own scripts, the possibilities are incredible. I once used Note Tab's clip editors to fashion an entire suite of tools and templates for editing and creating text files for a MUD that cut my work time more than in half.

OTHER COOL FEATURES
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++ Full Disk Search including search for text
++ Auto-indent
++ Match Brackets
++ SEND to email option
++ Fully customizable color and font view
++ Dockable and customizable QuickList for easy access to most used commands and files
++ One-click text statistics, including word count and frequency in selection or document
++ Fully customizable toolbar to keep most used commands in easy reach

DISADVANTAGES?

So few, so very few. The biggest problem I've found is that occasionally, I have to search for a menu item that isn't where I thought it should be. I've scrubbed my mind to think of other things I find annoying, and there just aren't any. The Light version doesn't include a way to filter binary codes that the Pro version has, so you'll run into problems opening files that contain graphics or formatting instructions. The other thing missing that I hardly miss, but others might find essential is the ability to work with an outline. Ag
ain, that option is available in the Pro and Standard versions of the application.

So -- What's It Gonna Cost Me?

Nothing. Nada. Zip. Download time. That's right. Super Note Tab is freeware. Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a free lunch. This is it.

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