Yahoo! Notepad as Wiki ?
I’m a big fan of Yahoo! Notepad, so here’s an idea to improve it 
I always like to write down stuff because it helps me to be a bit more organized and helps me make sure that I don’t forget something. So, I end up using Notepad.yahoo.com heavily. I usually add/delete lot of notes regularly – the reason is I try to keep consolidating the notes from more to less number of notes. One day, I got frustrated, and I setup my own private wiki in a hidden part of my website and I was using it well ; but I ended up accessing my mail, calendar and address in Y! but using a separate wiki instead of notepad. So, here’s where my idea/feature request comes in… why not make Notepad wiki-like!
My suggestions:
Use an extremely simple syntax like Markdown. Ability to link to other notes of mine makes it so useful!
Give a choice of having to print either the raw format or the converted HTML format. Both choices are useful depending on the situation.
This gives more incentive to use Notepad. I would definitely expect more people to use Notepad if such a neat feature was provided.
Brings in lot of geek cred!
The basic idea, however, is to bring more structure to my notes, without significant overhead.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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April 8th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
I certainly agree.
I keep my notes on my flash drive, and carry it along where I go. In fact, I was also planning to do the same for my notes – having wiki run on a personal site.
If Yahoo wikifies its notepad I will tell all to use the wonderful feature – it makes so logical to relate things/notes
April 8th, 2005 at 11:00 pm
I was using Yahoo notes extensively – but firing up a browser and logging was proving painful. Besides the Yahoo notes search is not that great. These days I am mailing my gmail account and the notes get tagged according to filters that I have setup. The JotSpot wiki is supposed is pretty cool in this regard, though it is proprietary – it allows you to update web pages through e-mail.
One feature that would make me go back to Yahoo Notes would be addition of webdav support – that would allow me to mount my yahoo notes as a local folder using Nautilus, or kfm or even the windows explorer.
April 9th, 2005 at 1:56 am
Vikram: Yep, I also think that a Wikified notepad would be a really killer thing.
April 9th, 2005 at 1:59 am
Rams: Due to the nature of my job, I have a browser always open, so I don’t have that overhead
W.r.t. GMail-notes, the disadvantage is that you cannot update your notes, which is impractical for me.
I don’t think WebDAV support will ever happen. That’s a business decision (half-wink).
April 9th, 2005 at 5:32 am
I do something like what you have mentioned. run a wiki on my own site and keep my notes updated there. but i always pine for a “tomboy” app on my desktop(gnome in my case) to be able to write back to my (specified) online wiki notes. that way, i have 2 interfaces — 1 web based and one desktop based. i don’t use yahoo notepad or messenger, but i would be a ideal solution if yahoo messenger would allow to add notes to your notepad.yahoo.com acct or any other specified site(highly improbable).
::akbar
April 9th, 2005 at 8:50 am
Akbar: I have wished for a Notepad tab in Messenger quite a few times! That would be an excellent feature. Food for thought.
April 10th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/ is all you need
April 11th, 2005 at 10:11 am
I love Emacs + PlannerMode
It is too good
April 19th, 2005 at 2:56 am
I like Akbar’s suggestion. I nominate WikiPad for the client-side job (http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/). It’s proprietary now, but the developer plans to open-source it. Written in Python, so it should invite lots of hacks.
I use it all the time and would love a plug-in that auto-saves it to a wiki in the cloud.
May 9th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
I stopped using notes when I found out that it will chop the contents, if the size of a single note is more than x KB. I think this limitation needs to be addressed.
May 9th, 2005 at 11:57 pm
Does it silently chop the content above the limit? That’s a serious problem. In the age of [1 GB mailboxes](http://battellemedia.com/archives/001344.php), 5000 characters is just pittance.
February 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Bumped into this while I was searching for ‘obviously’ better ways of jotting notes and yahoo-notpad.
Later I found that Yahoo indeed have listened to many of you.
http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/yahoo-notepad
FYI only.
May be too old news, but I just found out since I just had the need for this.
-JB