I haven't tried to find something I like more than Notepad++ out of laziness, and but I certainly don't love it. I feel like I liked something g more back I will high school but that was Windows 98. My current work laptop is my first Windows machine since then so I'm still learning.

ita,

I have tried a bunch of text editors for the Mac. What do you need to do with it? I don't code, I write. And so, Byword is my go to text editor.

Maybe I will try Komodo edit. Advantage: cross platform.

I have a hearts-and-flowers kind of crush on Sublime Text 2 [link] -- it's not free, but it's sorta like free, in that there are no limitations (including time limits) on the trial version; I used it for months until I decided I just gosh-darn like it so much I wanted to pay.

All 3 platforms, one license for all your machines, tons of searching power, nice code highlighting/folding/completion, add-ons (nearly all actually free) available for whatever I've thought to throw at it. It just possibly might have violet eyes and a lovely singing voice.

Sublime looks pretty sweet.

LeN, I have coding requirements, but not front and centre core of my job large project like things. So the idea of investing that much money for one...not likely. But robust search and replace is important, and syntax highlighting is highly appreciated. Spell check is gravy.

And, on the flip side (though maybe I should work out another solution) I would like to have something to just make temporary notes with. One of those sites I was browsing for text editors mentioned something that seemed good...aha.. Yojimbo by the TextWrangler/BBEdit people. But...for something that complex, I'd probably end up back in Evernote--it just seems oddly wasteful sometimes to fire Evernote up for notes I don't need to keep, but just stuff I'm accumulating for this browsing period.

However, me and Evernote are going steady. Good god, between that and Astrid, I can almost fake being a grownup. I really like that application--that's one of the ones I bought because I thought they deserved my money, if you know the urge (amych seems to be having similar feels for Sublime).

What are the invisible files that show up when I save from the Mac to the NAS? For every angelina_jolie_02.jpg, there's also a ._angelina_jolie_02.jpg? And they're not small either--They're about the same size as the image file.

When I see them, I delete them. I'm assuming this won't break anything...but if it doesn't break anything, why are they there?

Is it a previous versioning thing or something?

Yeah, I really love Evernote ever so much. I love it more every time I use it, and I know I'm not using it to its full potential yet.

Astrid, too, although it's not quite to my Evernote love levels. And it's Cozi making us not only look like adults, but like married adults who communicate with each other.

I really need to focus on using Astrid properly. I mean, forgetting is only one reason I miss deadlines. I'm perfectly capable of ignoring what's right there in face. So I'm trying to build my Astrid muscles.

And, man, since we have a new email application to get work email, it no longer hooks in so neatly to Tasker or Locale, so I've kinda fallen away on that front. Must concentrate and see what workarounds I can think of.

eta: I don't think it's a previous version...maybe a working version? It happens when I just create a file, the shadow appears. This could take up half the drive space, since each shadow is in line with the size of the real thing. And it doesn't matter what app I use--I'm saving out there from both Smultron and Elements, and getting the same thing.

ita,

I think the invisible files are ghost files that are created when you access a mac disk in a non-mac operating system. I think deleting them are fine, but I am not sure.

TextMate is my favorite coding editor. It does mixed mode syntax highlighting very well (like bits of JavaScript in an HTML file) and is easily extended.

Check out Understanding File System Metadata for the skinny on those files. In the case of the image files I assume it's the Quick View preview data.