The Memo pad either note pad of windows has received a major update. The desired ones have been included tabs either flapswhich users have been asking for for years.
Notepad is a simple text editor designed to work with plain text files, without decorations, photos, indentations, highlights, etc. Although it supports some of these functions.
precisely because it is easy to use, simple and direct and work with plain textwhich are used by many people, it is about a very popular tool which has been around Windows for decades.
In recent years, beyond some aesthetic change, the memo pad hardly added any new features. But that has changed this weekwith one of the premieres most demanded by fans.
Notepad debuts tabs
Until now, the Memo pad either note pad only allowed to work with one text file at the same time. If you need to edit two, for example to copy and pasteor for compare, you should launch the app twiceand put one window next to the other.
All that will end with the new Memo pad for Windows 11, which finally opens the expectations flaps. Here you can see them:
The new tabs allows open multiple documents at the same time, from the application itself. They consume less RAM and resourcesand there is no need to open multiple windows.
Even so, the app will give you the option to open new text documents in a new tab or a new window, as you prefer.
There’s also new keyboard shortcuts for tab management as well as some improvements to unsaved file handlingsuch as automatically generating the file name/tab title based on content, and an updated unsaved changes indicator.
for now the new Memo pad with tabs It’s only available for Windows 11. Microsoft hasn’t said if it will be released for Windows 10 as well, but that’s unlikely. Especially after it announced that it will stop selling Windows 10 licenses on January 31.
The new memo pad with flaps It is available on a beta basis for Insiders. If all goes well, it should reach all users of Windows 11 In the next weeks.