diff --git a/data/projects/templates/Empty.mpt b/data/projects/templates/Empty.mpt
index cf5bfa150..4974213b7 100644
--- a/data/projects/templates/Empty.mpt
+++ b/data/projects/templates/Empty.mpt
@@ -30,11 +30,7 @@
     <ControllerRackView visible="1" width="258" height="142" x="836" y="407" maximized="0" minimized="0"/>
     <pianoroll visible="0" width="640" height="480" x="1" y="1" maximized="0" minimized="0"/>
     <automationeditor visible="0" width="640" height="400" x="56" y="255" maximized="0" minimized="0"/>
-    <projectnotes visible="0" width="640" height="400" x="1" y="1" maximized="0" minimized="0"><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
-<html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">
-p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
-</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Verdana'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:600; font-style:normal;">
-<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Droid Sans'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; color:#e0e0e0;">Put down your project notes here.</span></p></body></html>]]></projectnotes>
+    <projectnotes visible="0" width="640" height="400" x="1" y="1" maximized="0" minimized="0"></projectnotes>
     <timeline lp0pos="0" lp1pos="192" lpstate="0"/>
     <controllers/>
   </song>
diff --git a/data/projects/templates/default.mpt b/data/projects/templates/default.mpt
index 18fcdd925..bebd41fe3 100644
--- a/data/projects/templates/default.mpt
+++ b/data/projects/templates/default.mpt
@@ -78,11 +78,7 @@
     <ControllerRackView width="350" x="680" y="310" maximized="0" height="200" visible="1" minimized="0"/>
     <pianoroll width="640" x="5" y="5" maximized="0" height="480" visible="0" minimized="0"/>
     <automationeditor width="640" x="-36" y="0" maximized="0" height="400" visible="0" minimized="0"/>
-    <projectnotes width="640" x="700" y="10" maximized="0" height="400" visible="0" minimized="0"><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
-<html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">
-p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
-</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Noto Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">
-<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" color:#e0e0e0;">Enter project notes here</span></p></body></html>]]></projectnotes>
+    <projectnotes width="640" x="700" y="10" maximized="0" height="400" visible="0" minimized="0"></projectnotes>
     <timeline lp1pos="192" lp0pos="0" lpstate="0"/>
     <controllers/>
   </song>
