NoteTab Pro 7.2

Overview

NoteTab Pro combines text editor and HTML coding tool under one hood. This tool is one of the favorite handy apps for webmasters and technically advanced users. Novice users will be able to master at least a couple of handy features, such as text editing and Thesaurus, or Clipboard. NoteTab is a full-fledged Notepad alternative and a winner of multiple tech industry awards.

NoteTab allows handling numerous large files in a convenient tab-based interface. It offers a powerful spell checker and Thesaurus, numerous formatting options, bookmarking tools and templates, searches and multi-line replacements.

This may not be the cheapest application on the market, with a Pro version price of $39.95, but it is difficult to say what this powerful application cannot do.

Installation

Installation requirements: Intel Pentium processor, or compatible, CPU 4MB, HD 64MB, RAM 32MB, 4 MB disk space. Be careful to read the installation instructions, especially if you have a previous version of the program installed. You will need to install the new, or the trial one, in a different folder because once the trial version expires you will not be able to open your previous version of NoteTab. It is also recommended by the developer that users uninstall the earlier versions of this program before you install the new one. Trial version is valid during 30 days and offers limited features. Namely, the spell-checker and thesaurus are disabled.

Install wizard also offers three choices – complete, custom and quick installation. There are no bundled items in the pack.

Interface

Despite the overwhelming number of powerful features, for a novice user at least, the interface is friendly and intuitive. Overall, GUI is not complicated, but it is clearly cut for advanced users in mind. It is possible to use this program for taking notes and copy-pasting numerous items to Clipboard without any technical background whatsoever. The only thing holding a Notepad devotee from trying NoteTab is a habit. Users can choose between real, fixed and smart tabs.

Features

NoteTab offers a rich palette of features, including:

• searching with wildcards
• exceptionally handy word count with text statistics for SEO
• supports HTML5 and CSS3
• supports Twitter’s Bootstrap’s toolkit
• highlights Syntax for CSS and HTML
• offers web templates

Pros

• A convenient Clipboard module allows creating and organizing clips with ease. Advanced users will appreciate the simple scripting language ample for any savvy user.
• HTML clip library will come handy for web authors.
• Text-to-HTML conversion, tag stripping and link adding will appeal to most demanding users.
• It is fast, neat and intuitive.
• Editing text is a pleasure with multilingual spell-checker, formatting and thesaurus, word count and word analysis.
• The program offers a powerful search tool with replace option.
• There is a possibility of setting up macros to fill in automatically with the help of shortcuts.
• It is possible to open and edit multiple documents simultaneously.
• Undo/redo goes several steps back in your editing.
• NoteTab withstands a respectable level of tweaking. You can add your own features with a programmable environment.
• ‘Replace All’ works super-fast.

Cons

It is not a Con per se, but novice users looking for a Notepad alternative may find this application somewhat expensive.

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