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Life is short and since I use Notepad myriad times daily, I’ve surrendered almost 4 Earth Days to “Bill” double-clicking Notepad’s header bar to maximize each time I launch it. — William R.

Scientists create an artificial cell capable of navigating its environment using chemistry alone by Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin ...

Windows 11 Notepad just got a major upgrade, and it’s no longer just a plain text editor. Although a light replacement for WordPad, it now supports markdown and cool formatting options. Here, we will ...

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad.

Hence the irony of students using it for “creative writing” assignments, and of literary journals and publishers having to admonish writers not to submit A.I.-generated fiction or poems under ...

They report evidence that the use of LLMs may lead to an erosion of critical thinking skills. In their study, posted on the arXiv preprint server, the researchers asked groups of volunteers to ...

Microsoft is adding a simpler text editor than Notepad to Windows 11 soon It's called Edit and it's going to run purely in the Command Prompt. By Mikael Markander and Joel Lee Jun 5, 2025 7:38 am PDT ...

Hate Notepad in Windows 11 because Microsoft keeps adding features to the app, bloating it up? You might like the new 'Edit' app that's in the works now.

Notepad has become Microsoft's favourite text tool since WordPad was shut down and with new AI features and Copilot, this is a new app.

The update, currently rolling out to developer builds, enhances the simplicity of Notepad, but it still lacks several key features needed to rival Microsoft Word or Google Docs for serious writing.