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ognp - OG Notepad

🗓️ August 16, 2025

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OGNP app window with classic Notepad look, menu bar, and editor area
OGNP brings back the classic Notepad feel: portable, clean, and snappy.

A faithful, tiny re-creation of classic Windows©™ Notepad©™. Fast, portable, and dependency-minimal.

ognp (OG Notepad) preserves the simple, no-nonsense editing experience of classic Windows Notepad.
It’s a portable WinForms app built on .NET 9, with no telemetry, no network calls, and no external NuGet packages. The goal is fidelity: file menu behaviors, Word Wrap quirks, encoding/EOL handling, and printing that feel exactly right.

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Why this project?

Modern Notepad has evolved, but some of us miss the ultra-minimal tool that opens fast, stays out of the way, and saves exactly what we typed. ognp exists to be that dependable classic-nothing more, nothing less.

Features

  • Classic UI & behavior
    • File: New / Open / Save / Save As… / Page Setup / Print / Print Preview / Exit
    • Edit: Undo, Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete, Find, Find Next (F3), Replace, Go To (Ctrl+G), Time/Date (F5), Select All
    • Format: Word Wrap (off by default), Font…
    • View: Status Bar (hidden when Word Wrap is ON - classic behavior)
  • Encodings & line endings
    • BOM detection for UTF-8/16/32; otherwise defaults to ANSI (system code page)
    • “Save As” lets you choose: ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-8 (BOM), UTF-16 LE/BE, UTF-32 LE/BE
    • Detects & preserves CRLF / LF / CR on save; Status Bar shows both EOL and encoding
  • Quality-of-life
    • Drag & drop to open
    • Accurate caret position and selection length in the Status Bar
  • No bloat
    • No telemetry, no network, no external packages
    • Single portable .exe-no installer required

Non-goal: ognp is not a code editor (no tabs, no syntax highlighting, no plugins).

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action Shortcut
New / Open / Save / Save As Ctrl+N / Ctrl+O / Ctrl+S / F12
Find / Find Next / Replace Ctrl+F / F3 / Ctrl+H
Go To / Select All / Time/Date Ctrl+G / Ctrl+A / F5

When Word Wrap is ON, Go To is disabled and the Status Bar is hidden-just like classic Notepad.

Download & Verify

Grab the latest ognp.exe and its checksum from Releases:
👉 https://github.com/raystanza/ognp/releases

Verify on Windows (PowerShell):

cd "folder\with\downloads"
$expected = (Get-Content .\ognp.exe.sha256).Split(" ")[0]
$actual   = (Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 .\ognp.exe).Hash.ToLower()
if ($actual -eq $expected) { "OK: SHA256 matches." } else { "MISMATCH!" }

Privacy & Security

  • ognp has no network features and no telemetry.
  • Security focus is local file handling (open/save, encodings/EOL, printing, CLI args).
  • Vulnerabilities? Please report privately via GitHub Private Vulnerability Reporting or email (see SECURITY.md).

License

GPL-3.0-or-later. See the repos LICENSE file.

Project Author

Built by @raystanza to scratch a very specific itch: a tiny, faithful Notepad that just works.

Last updated on 2026-06-20.

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