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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
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Downloads:
341,244
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Additional Requirements:
No additional requirements
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
June 13, 2009
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Publisher's description of NoteTab Light
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.
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Editor's review of NoteTab Light
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- "Powerful, free text editor proves beauty is skin deep"
- Version reviewed: NoteTab Light 6.12
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.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 317 votes
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
"The best notepad replacement out there"
Pros: I've been a satisfied user of NoteTab Light since it was first released. I've tried many other notepad replacements in the interim, but always return to this one. Replacing notepad with NoteTab in Vista is a bit of a pain, but worth the work.
Cons: Needs the option to automatically replace notepad in Vista/Win7
Summary: Tabbed multi-document interface, clipbooks, HTML tidy, and a myriad of other built-in features too numerous to list here make this a top-of-the-line text editor for Windows.
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
"An excellent list of features and no ugly fat."
Pros: In particular, the encryption feature for quick but private notes.
Cons: The thing I most hate about the product is the total lack of anything not to love ;-)
Summary: Easy to use, good update process, no bugs left that I can find, great GREP-like search and replace, and FAST.
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
"I started using Note Tab Light in 1996 and I still do."
Pros: It's everything that I could possibly want in a text reader-editor. Let's be realistic - Notepad is awful. Moving from Notepad to NoteTab Light is like moving from a bicycle to a Lamborghini. I've converted quite a few friends to it.
Cons: Nothing - No Cons
Summary: It's just great!
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
Pros: Way more versatile
Cons: Haven't found any
Summary: This should be standard on all pc's
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Version: NoteTab Light 6.12
"Still the best Notepad replacement"
Pros: Fast, powerful, stable
Cons: None that I can think of
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