Let's face it, Notes is rubbish, especially in formatted text mode. Whoever coded it so that spaces would be represented as "&space;" should be shot.

Can anybody recommend a graphical text editor that is stable, fast, and allows simple text formatting - bold, underline, italics, possibly even left/right/centre justifying - and saves in a format I can use to import into OpenOffice? I also want it to be able to smoothly handle text files of at least 10's of KB, maybe even 100's - Notes is especially poor once it reaches 8KB for me.