Popping up a new window for quick notes

Often you’ll find yourself wanting to pop up a new window quickly to write some scratch notes. Vim makes this really fast — either:

• use the :new command, which creates a new split with an empty buffer open
• use the <C-w>n mapping in normal mode, which does the exact same thing

Work through the checklist and give both a go. If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself doing this super often!