A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design.
I have been waiting long enough for a modern Windows 10 notepad app to come before I decided to create one myself. Don’t get me wrong, Notepad++, VS Code, and Sublime are great text editors. I have used them all and I will continue to use them in the future. However, they are either too heavy or look less appealing. There are times that I just wanted to use Windows notepad for things like writing notes or editing config files. So I decided to create a win32 notepad replacement here and try to give it a modern look and feel. Most importantly, it has to be blazingly fast and appeals to everyone.
So here comes the “Notepads” 🎉 (s stands for Sets).
notepads
or notepads %FilePath%
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Notepads is available in the Microsoft Store. You can get the latest version of Notepads here for free: Microsoft Store Link.
You can also use the Windows Package Manager to install notepads:
winget install "Notepads App"
To be 100% transparent:
I am using analytics service "AppCenter" to collect basic usage data plus some minimum telemetry to help me debug runtime errors. Here is the thread I made clear on this topic: https://github.com/0x7c13/Notepads/issues/334
Feel free to review the source code or build your own version of Notepads since it is 100% open sourced.
TL;DR: You might notice that I work for Microsoft but Notepads is my personal project that I accomplish during free time (to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more😃). I do not work for the Windows team, nor do I work for a Microsoft UX/App team. I am not expert on creating Windows apps either. I learned how to code UWP as soon as I started this project, so don’t put too much hope on me or treat it as a project sponsored by Microsoft.
Yi Zhou - App icon designer, Notepads App Icon (old) is greatly inspired by the new icon for Windows Terminal.
Mahmoud Qurashy - App icon and file icon(s) designer, creator of the new Notepads App Icon.
Alexandru Sterpu - App Tester, who helped me a lot during preview/beta testing.
Code Contributors: DanverZ, BernhardWebstudio, Csányi István, Pavel Erokhin, Sergio Pedri, Lucas Pinho B. Santos, Soumya Ranjan Mahunt, Belleve Invis, Maickonn Richard, Xam
Documentation Contributors: Craig S.
Localization Contributors:
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