As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in ...

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In this post, we will show you how to use Markdown in Notepad on a Windows 11 PC. Microsoft has introduced lightweight formatting in Notepad, and it supports Markdown (*.md) files to work directly ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Microsoft continues to move Notepad away from its text-editing roots with planned support for images. Although not officially announced, an image icon has appeared on the Notepad toolbar for Windows ...

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'State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year. TL;DR: Notepad++ was compromised for six months, but it ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview update brings AI text generation and improvement tools to Notepad, similar to chatbot functionality. The update also expands Markdown support ...

In context: Microsoft is going in some very wild directions with Windows development, with Notepad being one of the most outstanding guinea pigs in AI and design experimentations. Notepad now has the ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about shoshin lately, the Japanese word for “beginner’s mind.” I first wrote about it here, after learning the word from a guest on my podcast Fifty Words for Snow. My co-host ...

Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been receiving several new features—almost as if it’s evolving into a better, more modern version of WordPad. Meanwhile, ...