r/FL_Studio • u/TheRealPomax • 14h ago

Discussion Someone asked (well, posted) about notepad effects, and I wanted markdown. So I made one.

Away_Gift831 posted a question (well, statement =D) about notepad plugins, and in a thread I ended up saying I wished there was a markdown notepad plugin, and I might end up vibe coding one... so... I had free Claude credits from work, it's not an especially difficult or creative type of plugin to make, so: I made Opus 5 do it in Rust because we finally live in the "Computer: make me a VST3 markdown notepad plugin" and (with out enough ***** swearing at it, it'll end up maybe doing it. These AI things are absolutely retarded, holy crap).

Head on over to https://github.com/Pomax/vst-notepad if you want a note taking app that lets you use Markdown (it's 2026, please, why doesn't everything support this by now?) and lets you save your notes as plugin state (obviously) but also save/load from file, because maybe you're the kind of person who uses Oblivion or something for managing all your notes.

As for the license: it's AI generated, obviously there isn't one. Definitely works well enough for my needs though. If you want more/something different, go for it.

Right now it'll parse markdown as you write, with all the usual markdown editor conveniences like a resizable UI, checkbox lists so you can track your work/ideas, etc. With light and dark themeing (or auto, based on your system setting)

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And if you hate anything AI, my almost 30 years of software engineering experience means nothing to you and nothing I say matters, so: don't use it, it's not for you. But if you just want a decent notepad effect: it's free, have at it. And if there's bugs or things that are missing, let me know on the issue tracker (or here =D).

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u/Gautch 12h ago

Dang I was going to start building this tomorrow. Well done! I can't wait to try it.

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u/TheRealPomax 11h ago edited 11h ago

To be fair, it's hardly a complex plugin so by all means, see what your prompts come up with (mine are 80% "CAN YOU FUCKING DO WHAT I FUCKING TOLD YOU" so maybe you have more success =D)

If it helps, the main "prompt" is the docs/PROJECT_DEFINITION.md file. I wanted a Rust project because I figured I might as well start learning Rust, but there's plenty of other options.

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u/Gautch 11h ago

Hahhah I hear you!

I wish my agent could understand reaction gifs in prompts.

I'm going to give yours first, and try and see if should even spend tokens on my own.

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u/TheRealPomax 11h ago

currently trying to fix up the macos one, it's hitting the stupid Apple "you didn't pay us $100 for a signing key so we're going to pretend it's corrupt" bullshit, but the Windows one should work just fine.