[codingdave]

I'm a fan of the ones you listed as garbage. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, but those have been working for me for years... decades in the case of notepad, which I use mostly for ephemeral notes or as a cheap clipboard.

[techsin101]

I use notepad and trying to move away from it. 1st there is friction creating new files, 2nd no search functionality, 3rd I've too much freedom to just create files anywhere.