First of all, I have a question: how do you store the users' text? Do you store it on your server (a db) or is is local storage/cookies or something like that?
And some feedback: I would make the little save icon slightly bigger (probably have the size in %).
It would be useful if you had some idea of who your public is. Then you could place some (hopefully unobtrusive) affiliate links for some product/service of their interest.
I know one:
When I have some text from a website or a document with markup, I always paste it to Notepad++ and copy it again before I put it in a document. This way Word or Powerpoint or something isn't messing with existing formatting or anything(I know there are many options to paste without markup and so on but to me, this is just easiest :-) )
It keeping track of number of words / characters is not bad either ^_^.
I'll remember this if I'm ever on a machine without the option to install Notepad++ or something :)
You've never popped open a text editor and started writing things down? I have a dozen notes scattered all over my hard drive because I do that all the time to capture ideas. For some people, it's quicker and easier to open a tab than to open microsoft word. More stable, too.
Now, over 2000 folks use myTextarea every month :)
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