Help
Options: My Quick Notepad can convert text to HTML or Custom Markup, which is a markup language similar to that found on some message boards. You have the option of turning off the markup language for paragraphs, bold, italics, underlines, lists and links by unchecking the appropriate checkbox.
Convert: This button will convert the text to HTML or Custom Markup depending upon the options chosen. Once converted, the text will be locked. If you need to continue editing, you should click the Restore button to restore the text to its unconverted state. The Convert button will change to an Unlock button in case you want to edit the converted text.
Restore: This button will restore changes to the text to before you clicked the convert button.
Preview: Previews always convert to HTML so that they can be properly displayed. A preview will come up on its own screen. Some popup blockers may prevent the preview window from displaying.
Save/Load: The Notepad will allow you to save one document. This document will also be automatically loaded when you first come to the webpage. To properly save and load the text, cookies must be turned on in your browser. Information is stored for one month after your last login. So, as long as you keep coming back, you can keep loading up the text, but if you don't visit the site for a month, the text will be gone. Of course, after a month, you probably won't care about the text -- if you did care, you would have saved it to your own harddrive, right?
Formatting
Paragraphs: The Notepad will automatically add html paragraph tags around all text that ends with a hard return so long as the paragraphs option is checked. For the sake of easy-to-read html, a blank line will be left after each paragraph.
Font Formatting: The Notepad will add **bold**, ::italics:: and __underlines__ by including the appropriate symbols before and after the text. Each of these can be turned off in the options in case, for example, you have a special need to include double asterisk in your text.
Lists: Lists are created similar to many wikis by putting a single asterisk (*) or number symbol (#) in front of the line. Embedded lists (lists within lists) are not currently supported. The asterisk is used for unnumbered lists while, appropriately, the number symbol is used for numbered lists.
Links: A link is produced by putting an equals sign between the text and what you want the text to link to and wrapping double brackets around the entire expression. Example: [[Yahoo = http://www.yahoo.com]] will produce Yahoo.
Skip Paragraph: Sometimes, you don't want paragraphs around a specific paragraph. For example, you might be planning to turn it into a heading, or have some other special purpose for it. Putting two less than symbols (<<) at the beginning of a line will tell the notepad to skip that line when determining paragraphs.