markdown editing

Microsoft’s Notepad is no longer just the tiny, no-nonsense text box Windows users grew up with. In Windows 11, it has quietly become a surprisingly capable editing surface with tabs, session restore, recent-file history, Markdown-style formatting, spell checking, autocorrect, and AI-assisted...

Windows Notepad’s quiet transformation from a bare-bones text scratchpad into a surprisingly capable markdown editor says as much about Microsoft’s priorities as it does about the app itself. For more than forty years, Notepad has embodied the idea that a great utility should disappear into the...