Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models.

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  use notepad++ as drop-in replacement.

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  • didnt1able@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    +1 NPP is the goat

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It always struck me as a code editor lite rather than a text editor. If I just want to jot something down, metapad is Notepad without all the Windows bullshit they keep trying to shoehorn.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      See, having used IDEs to write software and scripts for the past 20 years, I just can’t see N++ as anything more than a syntax aware notepad.

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    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use both notepad and ++. I think it fits both worlds of code and text editor. When I am using it I am usually needing to to replace words and other tweaks that are really easy and flexible with ++.

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    • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is also a good choice

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• tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of the best features of notepad was that it starts quickly. That feature is now gone. :(

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  • Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tbf, some larger file sizes fucked notepad in the ass HARD. Notepad++ does everything right by me.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah why is that? Decade after decade this never really improved. Trying to open a big file in notepad just always brought it to its knees. Why doesn’t this shit bother anyone at Microsoft enough to write three lines of code to fix that?

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• axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s funny is that this likely irritated one of Microsofts own devs enough that they said ‘fuck all of this’ and invented the new cli app called Edit.

  It’s under 200kb and runs as a standalone binary if you want. Also supports mouse input.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With the tagline:

    A simple editor for simple needs.

    Just like original Notepad lol

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    • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, yes, but actually no. It's more like MS-DOS's EDIT.COM since it runs in a command line / "DOS" window.

      In fact, since EDIT.COM went through a couple of distinct variants back in the day, you could say that this is the third variant of it.

      The other two being 1) the BASIC-deactivated side of QBASIC.EXE which was an editor and programming language in one, and then 2) a stand-alone, from the ground up, version (with no BASIC to disable) which came along with Win9x / MS-DOS 7.

      I keep a copy of the latter in my DOSBox config. It's only 70kB.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Love you :)

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is cool, but it’s not a replacement for notepad.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean it has all the features notepad had.

      *You can type into it

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• zib@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s hard to imagine that Notepad of all things has now been enshittified. On Windows, I only ever use Notepad++, but regular ol’ Notepad has been a staple of Windows almost since the beginning. It truly feels like they’ve finished peeling away what little good remained of what Windows used to be.

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  • Brewchin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It certainly removed my ability to say “Companies are shoehorning AI into everything! I wouldn’t be surprised if they do it with Notepad…” as a form of mockery. It was one of the first damned victims.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been asking for stuff like this. I’m a long time notepad++ user, but I’d much rather not have to install a third party app and just use notepad. Since notepad added tabs I’ve been using it more and more and notepad++ less and less. Having AI editing built in to notepad is awesome.

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    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your username doesn’t check out… Everything you type in notepad goes to Microsoft now… I can’t understand what is awesome about having an ai try and figure out my text in notes pad.

      Would you be better served switching from notepad++ to vs code?

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• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  no. just no. Notepad exists to edit .txt files, not to fucking give me AI shit.

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  • moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t know. I use neovim btw

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• joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  WordPad dies for this.

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This means it’s also sending your text across the Internet and feeding the stupid fucking models with it.

  You know, just what you want from a fucking notepad app.

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  meanwhile the text editor on linux mint is just a text editor, opens in seconds, and lets you edit text.

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• Mrkawfee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Happy that I switched to Linux

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah yes because who would want useful free features? Not you!

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    • Typhoon@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Useful free features” like the entire OS and all the tools associated with it?

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    • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If I wanted AI I could go to some shit website and use it. Just like I don’t want a “useful free” toilet in my car, I don’t want brain-damaging spyware in my notepad.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People love free and useful features. Craming AI into notepad is now useful in the slightest. This is just one more unnecessary AI interaction platform in an os already chock full of them.

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  • tzrlk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Something I recently realised about why people still prefer Windows is that things like scheduled tasks and service management have UIs that are really decent and come right out of the box.

    The theoretically best systemd GUI tool I could find was only available through AUR and git. I know that’s a solvable problem, but it’s far from (Win) -> type:“serv” -> (Services) -> work.

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• JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nobody asked for this! FFS, can megacorps stop shoving AI into everything. Lucky Charms and scissors will have AI soon enough.

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• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A market for pre-AI tech is going to become a thing.

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  • Hackworth@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    More tech that does not need the internet at all would be great.

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• Damarus@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m usually very defensive of Windows. However, a few days ago I wanted to take some notes in Notepad and it kept changing up what I wrote. As this has forever been the most simple text editor imaginable, it took me a good moment to realize, that they implemented auto-correction (which we know is a lie anyways). The ridiculous thing is, nobody but tech people uses Notepad anyways and I can’t imagine that they want these slop features in it. The value of it was the simplicity and that is now lost.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    nobody but tech people uses Notepad

    And even then, Notepad++ is so much better than notepad anyway. It has more features and is still a better text editor than notepad ever was.

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    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The whole reason I use notepad is because it’s super light on features. Text wrap + find and replace is all I need.

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• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is Microsoft not aware what Notepad is actually used for?

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  • smayonak@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not writing or coding. No one uses it for anything except when Microsoft forces someone to use it as a default text editor.

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    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hard disagree, it’s fantastic for dumping log info/code snippets into and stripping formatting off strings.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assume this is supposed to get close to use it as a replacement for the discontinued wordpad.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No one even needs or wants these features. No one uses notepad for anything other than writing down quick notes while on the phone. Why would I need an AI to rewrite that. Actually if I did need an AI to rewrite that, I just copy it out of notepad and into one of the 100 bazillion AI apps that now are.

  Microsoft are wasting developer time adding features that not only does no one currently want, but no one could possibly ever need.

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  • bali10050@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No one uses notepad for anything other than writing down quick notes while on the phone.

    Actually, it’s a really powerful code editor. It’s used by many devs and sysadmins to quickly edit code and text based configs when it’s not on their machine. It’s also useful when you boot up a fresh vm just for a quick test, downloading another text editor there doubles the work you need to do.

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like I gotta go boot up the Packard Bell & get Notepad.exe from my Windows 3.1 install…

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• ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For now, these features support English only, making premium AI more accessible and flexible for everyone.

  They can’t be serious, right?

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• Blackfeathr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aw come on, leave Notepad alone! It’s like the last good Windows program.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does Wordpad still exist? This seems to fit that MO more

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  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, they just killed it off for 24h2.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But… That’s where you’d put this crap. Notepad had one job, and it did it well.

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  • Broken@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, they shut down Wordpad since it was the awkward step between simple notepad and full blown word processing. It didn’t do anybody any harm, but it never really had a home.

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• fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh cool!

  Said no one

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• skip0110@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is possible to restore the old notepad.

  I didn’t include a link because I could not find a non-spammy one, but a search finds a few. I did it on my work PC.

  And switching to a FOSS OS is probably preferable, but that’s not always possible.

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am pretty sure you can just remove the Notepad app on Windows 11 (not sure about Windows 10 though), or at least that’s what I did on VM. It removes the context menu option for creating a new text file (using new Notepad), but it restores old notepad that you can run by just runnning notepad in Run prompt (Win+R), or by making simple shortcut.

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t try, but a lot of those simple old apps were able to just run without any dependencies, and you may be lucky to just be able to copy the .exe from an older system to the new one.

    I actually have been enjoying the changes they did to it with new tabs and auto saving so you can reopen without losing anything. But wow, I never saw AI coming to this… I will need to find a way to prevent it from updating. Otherwise, I will also be going back.

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    • Feersummendjinn@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Microsoft copied the features you like from notepad++.
      The AI slop however, that is all Microsoft.

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Microsoft HAS to know that people who use notepad want lightweight, not bloat… Right? This HAS to be a joke or malice… And not THAT level of incompetence… Right? Right?

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• MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Macro-Shite giving no option but to have AI. They know dumbed down people are easier to harvest. Its the equivalent of getting people to pay for bitcoin mining and having the proceeds sent directly to you.

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  • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Welcome to Costco, I love you

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• MIXEDUNIVERS@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  just fucking great. my work laptop opens notepad in 2-3s after my w11 upgrade and now it will propably need 6s or something. fucking bloat. In Private i use Fedora and Mint

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  • altasshet@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can you get Sublime or Notepad++?

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    • MIXEDUNIVERS@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      already have it, after that update

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    • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also Kate is on Windows Store app.

      But Windows apps launch time could be slower than on linux generally, not necessarily on apps fault. Last time I’m on Windows 10, 5 years ago, GIMP launches in about half a second on linux but took a few seconds on Windows 10.

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ew

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not my Notepad. I prevented the notepad.exe update to the new, shitty version. When windows replaces it, I replace it back.

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• m3t00@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  so 'hello world' gets a response?

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Metapad, y’all

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