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Woohoo!Windows 11’s Notepad is finally getting tabsat long last in the year 2023.

Time for a celebration!

Windows 11 Notepad tabs

Don’t get too excited.

But it’s a really great text editor.

It had tabs long, long ago, and along with that a heap of other features.

Notepads app for Windows with settings pane open

It’s also totally free, and even has that sexy translucent design so many love.

Here’s a little more about it.

Oh, that’s the other part.

Notepads app on Windows 11

It’s open-source, and as such, its community can make contributions.

Bing is the default option.

It’s subtle but slick, and really nice to play around with.

File Explorer Tabs Hero

There are plenty of other features, too, which personally I don’t use.

I won’t go on forever, it is, after all, a text editor.

But it’s so much nicer than Microsoft’s.

Notepad on Windows 11

Take it for a spin, you might be pleasantly surprised.

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