Moemoea

  1. Low-tech, no-fancy, super fast sticky-notes

    Ever tried to copy/paste some tids and bits in a jiffy ?
    I mean, if you don't have any post-it like app installed.
    This goes like :

    1. reach you desktop or start windows explorer
    2. right-clik -> new doc texte, clik
    3. type the doc name, clik
    4. double clik on it so you can start copy or type your snippet
    That's a lot !

    That's what i always said to myself but didn't want to install one more fancy n-megabit app just for a few characters i may need may be once in a while.

    Last night i was playing with batch command.
    Although, i'm far from being a dos command jedi, it was quite esay to type 2 lines, in order to obtain what i want.
    Meaning :

    1. create a new text file in the right folder, with the name i want
    2. and open it in notepad.

    Remember : i want some extra fast super easy way to type anything. So notepad is the best.
    By the way, open it and copy/paste this :

    @echo off
    cd /d "c:\your\folder\path"
    set /p title=type your title without space ?
    echo creating %title%.txt ...
    echo.
    REM don't forget to create a foo.txt ...
    copy foo.txt %title%.txt
    echo.
    echo starting notepad
    start %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe c:\your\folder\path\%title%.txt
    

    Save it as _notes.bat for example. That's it.
    Now, you can make it 2 different ways. The strait forward and the clever.

    • the first :
      1. Make 2 shortcuts of your notes folder and your _notes.bat file
      2. slap them on your destop
    • the latter :
      1. declutter your desktop of all these ugly icones
      2. get this super-small, abandonned tiny exe RUNit
      3. Drag your folder and your .bat into RUNit and enjoy your wallpaper !