Feature request: notepad/scratchpad tool

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Hi,

On several occasions, I've been working on something in DOpus, and I've needed to jot down some notes... maybe some files or something like that. Obviously, it's not that big a deal to flip over to Notepad or something. But, today, I was thinking it would be a little easier if there was a tool in DOpus for this purpose. Just a place to type in some random text temporarily. It doesn't need to save or be able to edit files or anything like that, literally just a scratchpad (of course, bonus points if it was literally a mini embedded Notepad tool including saving and loading).

It's kind of the IDE mentality: DOpus is already so great and powerful that I can get so much done without ever leaving it, so one less thing I need to leave it for wouldn't hurt.

Just tossing this out there as something I'd love to see (or, just in case there's a way to do it already that I'm totally unaware of - with as many features as DOpus has, that seems to happen every now and again!).

Thanks!

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This is doable with scripting, it would be easy to make a button that pops up a window with text area with your scratchpad text saved (auto-save it on close).

You could even do it as a custom command with a name, so you could have several buttons with different scratchpads (e.g., one with reminders, second one with TODO etc.).

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That's a neat idea, top marks for ingenuity :slight_smile: But, given the usage pattern I had in mind, it would need to be docked, like the other DOpus tools. Otherwise, I could just resize the DOPus window and put an instance of Notepad up next to it (which I do sometimes). But, being docked makes it more like a component of an IDE: it's right there, not taking up extra space, and not requiring me to fiddle with windows.

Now, if there's a way to dock a window opened by a script then that's something I'd be VERY interested to hear about.

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Microsoft one note supports docking notes at the edge of your screen.

There's also sticky notes if you want something light without the ability to dock.

Those programs should cover all of your listed needs. You can set one note to run at system startup or if you have a specific workflow, can be opened in conjunction with other programs via a bat file.

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We've been thinking of upgrading our layout engine for some time, because it's a bit inflexible at the moment about where the various panels can go, and adding new panels is quite a bit of work. If that ever happens (nothing's actually planned yet) then being able to dock script dialogs as panels would be an interesting idea.

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