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.

You can do this really quickly in Vim — either:

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

Give it a go in the editor. If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself doing this super often!