DocPad is a free alternative to Notepad. Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it offers an arsenal of time-saving tools: block indent/unindent, bookmarking, case conversion, customizable toolbar, encoding conversion, file history, jump to line/offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, skinnable interface, spell checking, statistics, variable pitch font, and much more.

Easy Notes let you to manage notes on your desktop, notes sorted in a tree structure, keep track of your tasks and use calendar in an intuitive way. Additionally, you can edit files with a plug-in extensible editor. It is possible to edit desktop and tree notes, calendar items, plain-text files, such as e.g. html code, in the same window that can serve as a word processor with rich-text formatting.