Cherrytree
Not everybody writes code. In fact most people don't. Yet it's a demographic that's been left behind in the text editor world. People who want a “note taking” angle to their text editors have even fewer options.
Products like Evernote are of course happy to offer their services but they're all terrible. Not just in a Richard Stallman kind of way either.
Old-fashioned types who hate modern Microsoft Word too much just stick with old versions of Word and Wordperfect.
There's plenty of plaintext editors that are simple enough to use as upgrades from notepad.exe, but they're primarily for code, have barely any features for organizing, and of course are plaintext only.
Emacs and Vim can be configured to do anything, especially with Org mode involved, but that kind of thing doesn't fit everyone's lifestyle.
It turned out my vision of the text editor the world needed already existed and is called CherryTree, so I just use that. It covers all the use cases I felt were being ignored.
1. Writing a journal (and password protecting it)
2. Sketching out characters and concepts for a story
3. Taking notes with formatting and images
4. Exporting to “universal" formats like PDF, HTML, and plaintext
5. Linking your own documents together like your own Web
Highly recommended to anyone wanting more from a text editor, especially Windows users.
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