Windows Notepad
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Notepad addresses a specific use case (dumb text editor).”
“Its job is to be robust, simple, and always available.”
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“Notepad is the best version so far, I use it as a todo list”
“Been using this for years and it's pretty much all I ever needed.”
Caveats and dissent
“It's slow, too. On corporate hardware it can take several seconds for the "new" Notepad to open”
“Notepad was always a place to paste formatted junk to get the plaintext - I don't need anything persisted.”
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“They ruined a perfectly good editor: Notepad with AI slop.”
“Notepad is supposed to be dumb, not Microsoft!”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown 3 mentions
- Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability 3 mentions
- MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID 2 mentions
- Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? 1 mention
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- Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself 1 mention
Also written as Windows Notepad. Data: windows-notepad.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
“I now write emails in notepad”
“It's slow, too. On corporate hardware it can take several seconds for the "new" Notepad to open”
“Notepad addresses a specific use case (dumb text editor).”
“Notepad was always a place to paste formatted junk to get the plaintext - I don't need anything persisted.”
“They ruined a perfectly good editor: Notepad with AI slop.”
“Notepad is turning into the text app I desperately want, except for the association with Copilot.”
“I use notepad to read/edit the .MD files, so this will make my life a little easier.”
“Notepad is supposed to be dumb, not Microsoft!”
“Its job is to be robust, simple, and always available.”
“The constant desire for feature bloat inevitably introduces potential vulnerabilities.”
“After they added copilot I finally gave up and uninstalled it”
“it has a very obvious bug”
“Notepad is the best version so far, I use it as a todo list”
“Been using this for years and it's pretty much all I ever needed.”