Notepad is a great little tool that often gets under ultilized. The program is usually found in Programs>Accessories>Notepad, and it comes free on most computers. It can be used for many things. For example when your creative juices start pouring out for new blog posts, it's handy to type them out in a document instead of uploading directly to your blog platform. You can either save them for later or copy directing into your platform.
If you've tried to use Word for this, you probably noticed that your blog posts appear weird if you try to copy directly. Why? Word and other word processing programs, embeds code into the formatting when you transfer it over to your blog. This is also true for most website platforms.
Ideally, you want to use a program like Notepad. Either type directly into notepad or copy content into it (to strip the formatting) then paste into your blog or website.
It's also a great tool to save ideas as they come to you. Save it as you would any other program. My suggestion is to create a folder on your computer. When you have an idea or thought simply open, Notepad, type your thoughts and save to the folder, then you can access to them anytime!
That is a great tip for writting blogs to transfer over. I have had some issue with this so I might try using notepad.
Great idea. It makes perfect sense to put drafts in a place that isn't subject to extra coding...it will save some clean up time.