I have been a HUGE fan of notetab text editor for many years now. Buying it was the single best purchase I have ever made in computer software — I use it hourly in so many ways I cannot even try to explain them, but they include:
- manipulate data – I use it to sort, move, make delimited files, examine, replace and repair text
- code html, javascript, perl, php — one of it’s greatest shortcomings is that it doesn’t have custom or language syntax highlighting except for html, but get over that shortcoming (there is a way to see syntax highlighting if it is really important), but it isn’t really if you know the language involved
- read simple stuff simply — formatting of documents makes them big files
- control other programs, for example I have it auto-fill form fields in certain web pages using data out of an excel spread sheet
One of the most difficult tasks is getting a new user going. Writing clips is hardly intuitive. I have decided to try some video tutorials to show the most basic of functionality. As I get going, I might try to write a clip to do more tasks. In fact, have something repetitive that you need done on your computer with data? Write a comment and let’s see if we can fix it with a clip.
Here are the first few tutorials:
How to create a new clip library
How to create your very first clip – hello world
