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Ugh, I do this with Notepad++ too, and I know it's terrible. But it's just so.... automatic. I tell myself that nothing in there is truly critical, but I've also had a few instances of being pretty pleased to be able to "find in all open documents" and recover a bit history of what I was doing, or URLs for some research, or whatever.



I use Notepad++ like this too.

But I try to use its split pane feature to keep all my scratch txt files out of the way of whatever project files I need open.


I'm utterly unrestrained with it because I don't even use NP++ as a text editor for anything else— my actual projects are in VSCode or just terminal vim instances.


>scratch txt files

We started using rider at work and I already have made like 20 scratch files in under a week. It may become a problem soon.




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