Using Notepad++ Together with ChatGPT for a Faster Workflow

Kong King

Hi everyone,

I’d like to share a simple tip for those who often switch between Notepad++ and ChatGPT in their daily workflow. If you use chatgpt ita to draft or generate text, you can copy the output directly into Notepad++ to refine, format, or even run quick text manipulations with regex.

What I find useful is:

Draft the idea or code snippet with ChatGPT.

Paste it into Notepad++ for cleaning, formatting, or further editing.

Use Notepad++ features (like syntax highlighting or search/replace) to polish the text before saving.

This way you combine the creativity of ChatGPT with the flexibility of Notepad++. It’s a lightweight but powerful workflow, especially for writers, coders, or anyone who needs quick editing without extra clutter.

Alan Kilborn

@Kong-King said in Using Notepad++ Together with ChatGPT for a Faster Workflow:

I’m not sure why anything you said is unique to ChatGPT output…

Paste it into Notepad++ for cleaning, formatting, or further editing.

Use Notepad++ features (like syntax highlighting or search/replace) to polish the text before saving.

Haven’t people been doing this with all kinds of data for decades… long before ChatGPT?

Thus I must conclude that this thread contains no meaningful information.

Victorel Petrovich

Maybe the tip can be useful for some people (after all it helped the author), but it is posted in the wrong category. (This category is for asking for help)

Walter Cook

@Kong-King YES…Something I have done often. Is there a preferred “Language” to use before pasting into Notepad++? Copying from ChatGPT or any of the AI’s interfaces seems to be pretty messy!

Thanks,

Walter Cook

PeterJones

@Walter-Cook said in Using Notepad++ Together with ChatGPT for a Faster Workflow:

Is there a preferred “Language” to use before pasting into Notepad++?

If the Generative AI nonsense is pretending to be C++, then use Language > C > C++; if it’s pretending to be Python, then use Language > P > Python; if it’s pretending to be markdown, use Language > Markdown (preinstalled). If it’s pretending to be plain text, use Language > None (Normal Text)

Remember, Generative AI is not thinking, and is not actually generating anything with meaning. It is just picking a long list of likely “next token” (effectively, “next word”, but not technically) based on the prompt and what it’s generated so far.

Copying from ChatGPT or any of the AI’s interfaces seems to be pretty messy!

Then find a better UI? There are various frontends to those “tools” which can help. (I know that Google’s AI Studio interface, for example, has a button to allow copying the underlying Markdown that their LLM produces, so something like that might be better formatted than the rendered stuff directly from the browser.)

Admin Note: as @Alan-Kilborn said, this conversation really shouldn’t be under the “Help Wanted” category, so I am moving it to the “General Discussion”