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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

If they made it more useful, people would use it. Making support for modern formats, maybe even Markdown could have been added and it would already be 5x more useful. Also add another set of basic features like tables, some advanced formatting to the mix as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

If they made Wordpad generate Markdown instead of RTF (or as well as, but by default) then I'd consider using it. As it is, I already pay for a Jetbrains license, so I just use Fleet. Massive overkill for note-taking, but it's there and it works.