I hit Win+R and use the run dialogue text bar.

Does that maintain paragraph breaks?

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adhd ideas are fast, too fast for handwriting. sometimes even typing is barely fast enough

one day when we invent thought -> text machine neurotypicals will finally be able to see the speed of an adhd brain that "just had a great idea", and they shall wonder how can our brains be so fast, but seemingly never when they should

Typing hurts my wrist less than physically writing it down

Does sublime retain contents across restarts like notedpad++?

If you install Power Toys, you can set a key sequence to paste in anything like this.

It depends on how the app you were using was written. If it was written correctly, it'll work, if not, blame the company that made it (especially when it's Microsoft themselves!).

Power Toys has a feature that will force it to work in every app, I highly recommend it! There's all sorts of helpful features in Power Toys.

notepad++ doesn't nag me about updates all the time. I open mine very frequently to manage my onetab tabs

NP++ is great but sometimes you want something even more minimal... I for example hate NP++'s icon toolbar and it's cluttered menu bar and would never use it even though I acknowledge that it's a great tool (just not for me).

Classic notepad.exe with basic syntax highlighting would be amazing...