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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: June 13, 2009
- Total Downloads: 349,125
- Downloads last week: 367
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 330 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Once you explore the power of NoteTab Light, you may find this text editor beautiful despite its hectic interface. At its core, NoteTab Light is to Windows' Notepad as an iPhone is to a rotary phone. NoteTab Light incorporates top-level tabs similar to most Web browsers, so that you can manage several different projects at once, and it can automatically replace Notepad so that Notepad's icons open NoteTab instead--although not in Windows Vista.
However, it's more than a mere replacement. The left column displays a list of commands, called Clips, that do anything from inserting bits of text to generating code. Each library, the roster of which appears as tabs at the bottom of the screen, contains its own set of clips. The FTP library, for example, lets you create server profiles, connect, upload and download files, and issue various commands. The HTML library auto-completes HTML tags. The publisher's site offers many user-created libraries, or you can make your own. You can create your own clips by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2.
Several of the clips, including the Tidy HTML clip and the TopStyle library, require secondary freeware apps to support them, but NoteTab will direct you to their Web pages if it finds them missing. NoteTab Light isn't a tool for casual users, but power users and programmers should find plenty to love.
Publisher's description
From Fookes Software :NoteTab Light is a versatile free Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor. Move quickly around stacks of large files with a simple tabbed interface and format your text to your heart's content. Perform system-wide search and replacements. Strip HTML tags. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work. Avoid tedious cut-and-paste operations - save text clips automatically in Paste Board files. Make the most of NoteTab's options to suit your workstyle.
Version 6.2 adds optional code page token support in template headers. Also adds new templates.
What's new in this version:
Version 6.2 adds optional code page token support in template headers. Also adds new templates.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 330 votes
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
"Best darn notepad replacement around PERIOD!!!"
Pros: It's light and fast to load. No bloat. Does what I want, loads humungous txt files, love the auto paste feature, strips out all that HTML junk, handles multiple tabs at once.
Cons: Wish you could hide the Clip Book List Box
Summary: Man, this programme is SO AWESOME!!! And I hate the word Awsome!!! So it must be good. It does everything better than Notepad, or any of the other replacement progs I have tried. Except Notepad will load faster, but then its integrated into the kern... read more >>
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
Pros: It has everything I need in a quick text viewer and has more than I need as a mini processor.
Cons: Could is a face lift .
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
"Picks Up Where Notepad left off a long time ago"
Pros: Ease of Use
Recently Used Files List (under re-open)
Clipbook
Intuitive User Interface
Copy & Replace including Special Characters (ex. line feed)
FreeCons: Absolutely None
Summary: Absolutely the top, or at a minimum, simply one of the best free text editors available!
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
"Easy to learn, intuitive user-friendly program."
Pros: The interface is great, clear not " hectic".
The items covered are paginated to assist identification (see "Options")Cons: Help headings poor e.g. Outlines, I don't look under C for "Create new outline". So please, Outlines/,new /modify/ edit /delete.
If item unavailable in Light, color the text differently (=more sell impact)
Ideal weight's a joke? for skeletons? :)Summary: After Edlin, I used to use Word Perfect-styled Personal Editor in the DOS days. This program looks like it will have the functions I need, I'll purchase an upgrade when limitations occur.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
Pros: The free edition handles all that I will need. It is a reliable product that I have been using for a few years.
Cons: Nothing negative about this product.
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