What is "My Notepad" for?

mrmitchell · November 22, 2003, 18:31

You know, in the User CP. Why would anyone need it? I don't get it.

Nubclear · November 22, 2003, 19:34

sigh

DrSpike · November 22, 2003, 21:00

Taking notes?

mrmitchell · November 22, 2003, 21:08

But can't you just use the regular Notepad that came with Windows for taking notes? And you can take as many as you want, too, not just 10!

I still don't get it. Has anyone ever used it? What for?

DrSpike · November 22, 2003, 21:23

Hehe it does seem pretty redundant. Perhaps it's just a default feature that comes with the software.

Rasbelin · November 22, 2003, 22:28

Quote:

Originally posted by mrmitchell

And you can take as many as you want, too, not just 10!

If you knew what I use it for, you'd find it very, veeeery useful.

But fortunately you will pretty soon get to to see what I have been storing there.

Spikey,

it's an add-on for vB. Not a default feature. vB 2.0.3 had quite little of all the feature seen on ACS Forums. There's so much custom here.

Locutus · November 22, 2003, 22:29

It's useful when you work from different PCs.

Stuff in my Notepad:

- Links and info I need to perform my duties as staff member (links, quote colours, pieces of code/text I use frequently).

- Other (sometimes completely non-Apolyton related) useful links and info I would like to be able to access from any PC, whether at home, work, uni or somewhere else.

- Draft versions of (long) posts/news items/articles/etc which I for example started on at work but couldn't finish the end of my shift and would like to continue working on from home.

- Raw data for statistics threads, like the forum login growth numbers I posted once or twice before (and plan on continuing to posting from time to time in the future), and the 'expansion pack civs poll' I ran in the Civ3 forum a while back. I have Excel files for the 'real work', but can only access those from home. Sometimes I need to access to the data from elsewhere as well.

- Copies of FAQs and the like: posts that need regular (or not so regular) updates and that I'd like to be able to preview before submitting. The Notepad is an excellent preview tool, e.g. for testing how HTML code works out in a vBB context, without publicizing your experiments (read: screw-ups) for all to see.

etc...

That's all I can think of now, but I use it all the time for all sorts of things, sometimes Apolyton-related, sometimes completely unrelated. It's a brilliant feature

PLATO · November 22, 2003, 23:31

I use it sometimes to hold links when I know I'm going to get that famous 'Poly challenge..."Source?"

Frozzy · November 23, 2003, 00:33

I use it to create a nice render when I open my User CP.

Gatekeeper · November 23, 2003, 03:40

You're supposed to keep *important* financial data, passwords, phone numbers and home addresses in the notepad. Really.

Adagio · November 23, 2003, 07:08

I used the notepad about a half year ago, to keep links to where the cities in our SC4 MP game where saved

...the links are still there...

Skanky Burns · November 23, 2003, 07:38

It can be useful if you want access to text information from multiple different computers. But then, email can do that too.

Asmodean · November 23, 2003, 07:46

Quote:

Originally posted by mrmitchell
You know, in the User CP. Why would anyone need it? I don't get it.

For taking notes, presumably

Asmodean

DrSpike · November 23, 2003, 08:03

I already said that Asmo.

I can see how this could be useful if you switch pc's a lot.

Asmodean · November 23, 2003, 08:24

Quote:

Originally posted by DrSpike
I already said that Asmo.

Dang....so you did

Asmodean

Shogun Gunner · November 24, 2003, 00:52

Keep your 'Poly password there...just in case you forget it and can't log on!

Skanky Burns · November 24, 2003, 01:05

It will take some effort to come up with a worse use than that!

vovan · November 24, 2003, 01:29

Quote:

Originally posted by ADG
I used the notepad about a half year ago, to keep links to where the cities in our SC4 MP game where saved

...the links are still there...

So are mine.

Maybe we should start using them again?

Ben Kenobi · November 24, 2003, 04:49

Quote:

Draft versions of (long) posts/news items/articles/etc which I for example started on at work but couldn't finish the end of my shift and would like to continue working on from home.

I've put essays on that notepad. They've since been taken off. It comes in handy for revisions when I don't want to have to come all the way home.

Of course, you can do the same in an email, but not having to bother with the html coding can be very useful for retaining formatting.

DaShi · November 24, 2003, 06:47

I thought it was to bog down server space so load times were longer.

ixnay · November 24, 2003, 12:23

I use it to test out html code.

It's really easy to just put the code in a notepad entry and have it automatically rendered.

Alex · November 24, 2003, 14:06

I don't use it at all. But I like the concept.

Aramis · November 24, 2003, 14:23

Should we be taking notes on all these uses? We can use our notepads . . .

Sarxis · November 24, 2003, 14:24

I've actually had to use the Notepad. Back when some users were having problems changing their avatars using the CP, one of the members (sorry, forgot who, don't hate me

) gave me a bit of (java?)code to paste into the pad. It produced a workable avatar changing window right inside the pad. Very cool.

Was it you Skanky Burns?