TabPad
A tabbed notepad with quick-key tool buttons for fast and easy note taking. Organize notes into as many notepads as you need. Each notepad can contain up to 255 tabbed pages. Assign a hot key to recall each notepad. Print a page/notepad to the printer or generate the RTF text to open in a word... Palm™ handheld owners can use TabPad as a desktop companion for the build-in Memo Pad application. ... Use TabPad to store notes, and lists, including research notes, project notes, to-do lists, trip check lists, ideas, goals, music to try, books to read, recipes, etc.
http://www.brucegraham.net/shareware/download/tpad151.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Desktop Notepad
Desktop Notepad is a tool which displays the text on your desktop wallpaper. It is user-friendly but feature-rich tool. Now you can write down reminders or work plans and you will see them on the screen. Desktop Notepad can be used to streamline your note-taking. ... Move your mouse over Desktop Notepad text and the tool will 'wake up' and display its transparent and resizable window.
http://desktop-tools.net/dnsetup.exe - 670Kb - Download - Screenshot

GridinSoft Notepad Home
GridinSoft Notepad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements! Use of the standard Multiple Document Interface (MDI) allows many files to be edited simultaneously. The spelling checker has dictionaries for 7 languages, and... GridinSoft Notepad has a built-in calculator that can evaluate math expressions. ... For purposes such as software development, GridinSoft Notepad has a code templates and search commands. ... GridinSoft Notepad has a many other nice features for beginners and professional programmers!
http://www.gridinsoft.com/downloads/gsnote32.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Another Notepad
ANOTHER NOTEPAD - Windows text editor. Here's a handy text editor with all the convenient features that Microsoft left out of their Windows Notepad utility. Just a few of the features: Sort lines of text alphabetically; Convert blocks of text to all uppercase or lowercase; Merge two files...
http://www.pcshareware.com/programs/anote95.exe - 735Kb - Download - Screenshot

Article Notepad
Article Notepad is a very useful piece of software which allows you to create, edit, and save your internet articles in one place allowing you easier organisation of your articles. No longer do you need to keep your articles in txt or doc files scattered thoughout your hardrive.
http://www.xeritas.com/articlenotepad/article_notepad_trial.zip - 556Kb - Download - Screenshot

GridinSoft Notepad
GridinSoft Notepad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements! Use of the standard Multiple Document Interface (MDI) allows many files to be edited simultaneously. The spelling checker has dictionaries for 7 languages, and... For purposes such as software development, GridinSoft Notepad has a code templates, scripting engine, search commands with regular expressions. ... GridinSoft Notepad operates under Windows 95/98/Me or Windows NT 4.
http://www.gridinsoft.com/downloads/gsnote32.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

12Ghosts Notepad
Easy to use editor for keeping notes or addresses. It provides unlimited text size, font formatting, and easy-to-use editing hotkeys. 12-Notepad has interesting automation for saving (every 1/2 second), copying (on selection), scrolling (move mouse to top or button), and closing (on focus lost). ... With a bar to open pages with one click, and do so at the exact same position you left typing last time, it is an attractive editor worth trying.
http://12Ghosts.com/download/12notepad.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

BDV Notepad
It is comfortable text editor, Windows Notepad replacement. In this program are combined: extended functionality, comfortable interface, flexible adjustment and all of this is absolutely free-of-charge! Program can work with files of any size, supports shortcuts, multilevel Undo/Redo,... It has customizable multilanguage interface, improved printing engine and many additional opportunities...
http://www.badevlad.com/soft/bdvnotepad.zip - 323Kb - Download - Screenshot

Directors NotePad 2
Designed specifically with amateur users in mind, Directors NotePad is an ultra lite version of the popular professional director's tool Directors NoteBook. Directors NotePad helps amateur film makers organize their ideas shot by shot, and view them on screen in slide show form and as printed... Key Features in Directors NotePad Easy-to-learn push-button interface allows you to be creative and organized from the start without being a techhead Effortlessly keeps you organized. ... Directors NotePad has 4 different printouts Import digital storyboard images with one mouse click Data entry...
http://homepage.mac.com/directors_notebook/demo/pad2_trial.exe - 16Mb - Download - Screenshot

Vsnotepad Classic
The concept of Vsnotepad is to write, change pages and view your notes like a true notepad. Easy to use, powerful and complete. VSnotepad is adapted to the professional or personal -situations. - Designed to be like a true notepad.
http://www.virtualspaghetti.com/demo/VSnotepadTrialVersionSetup.exe - 321Kb - Download - Screenshot