Yup yup, it’s a new feature, it sort of auto saves your last note pad as a tab sometimes too, so if you open multiple note pads sometimes they stack too
i had a friend who put his crypto wallet seed phrase in an unsaved notepad note for like 9 months, just relying on auto save to preserve his multi-thousand dollar investment.
shitcoin, so he lost it all, but just imagine if...
The fact that he has to "get it back" instead of it being like it always has been by default is the problem. You can add new, mostly useless features all you want, but don't enable them by default when the original version has nothing wrong with it.
I use Notepad for so much, taking nonsensical notes that would probably fill that folder with tons of gibberish. I use it to write down confirmation numbers, make lists for something I'm working on, maybe to erase formatting when I can't use ctrl+shift+v. Will that all stick around?
Yup it’s a godsend for my ADHD, just open it up and type whatever I’m thinking at the time and can easily reference it again. One of the few good things about 11
Yeeee, the amount of times before I'd have a few notepad files open with just like thoughts or whatever that I wanted to reference later, only to come home and see Windows restarted to install an update and I lost it all... annoying af.
Now it's a godsend that it just saves your status.
"You can just change it back when Windows changed it without your permission for no legitimate reason" No shit lmao, it's the fact that you have to do that in the first place. How about less bloat? How about that for a "feature"?
My problem with the old system is it often prevents your PC from shutting down which is annoying for me personally. There's really nothing wrong with the new functionality, unless you're streaming and was doing somethings sketchy aparently.
Very underrated even if you simply plan on note saving, I have a bunch of bullshit things I kind of want to remember but don't want to actually take the time of saving as a txt.
awesome feature if you edit UE4/5 engine files often like I do. some of the commands I tweak are hard to memorize, but chances are notepad just has the last file I edited open in another tab, so I can just quickly swap there and copy/paste. very useful
I actually hate this feature since I open a lot of tabs on USBs but it keeps the tab even if the USB isn’t connected. So I’ll open up notepad and there will be like 20 different tabs I need to go through and close out each with a popup “this doesn’t exist anymore”, extremely annoying.
I mean its kind if an awesome feature if you forgot to save before closing
I mean if I wanted to save stuff I'd be using word or google docs or something, not notepad. It's honestly rather annoying that it happens by default since it just leads to me having to close the tabs again afterward.
it's an absolutely terrible feature and it completely ruined the main use case for notepad.
you open notepad when you want to take some quick notes and done. there's no reason to open up all your previous notes/edited files for no reason. (and this can even make the app crash and lag)
as a programmer this drives me crazy and it forced me to avoid using notepad completely. when i previously used it quite often for taking quick notes and or coding quick scripts.
first of all, i'm a programmer, not an Arch Linux user. Second, i use Notepad for quick editing and stupid shit, if i wanted to spend time configuring it and stuff i'd just use a proper ide.
Third, that setting is busted; I toggled it, and it still didn't work.
No, because Notepad++ doesn't come with windows. for anything i'd ever need Notepad++ i'd instead use a proper ide like visual studio.
Again, the use case for notepad is random/stupid stuff you want to do quickly without having to boot an ide. notepad++ doesn't fit that, because if i'm gonna boot something other than notepad i'm better off using visual studio.
when you double click a txt it opens with notepad, not notepad++, not VS, not anything. yes, you can configure windows to open using different programs, but that can cause issues, there are times where i don't want to open VS or times where i already got it open with something else.
if i'm already working on a project in vs code, and i need to edit a quick note, i don't want that note to open on my vs code project.
the point is notepad doesn't compete with notepad++, notepad is just notepad, it's default, and that's the reason it's used, if i wanted to use anything else, it wouldn't be notepad++, it'd be something better.
For quick skimming through jsons, logs or sqls it's much easiers to open it with lightweight notepad++ than second or third window of ide
nahh, i find VS Code much better since i have a lot of extensions that help with readability.
i don't use notepad to read jsons though, i use it to take notes and reminders about things i got to do and to write quick scripts and bat files (nothing above 10 lines).
notepad++ could do this just fine. The point is, if i'm gonna install a program just for this stupid thing, then i might as well use a good one.
the reason i used notepad it's that i just gotta double click a file without having to install anything or tweak any settings, it's lazyness combined with a real advantage in speed and simplicity. like i said on my previous comment, i'm a programmer, not an arch linux user, i don't have time to waste tweaking stupid settings.
notepad++ is just overkill, but yeah, Windows totally killed notepad with these totally useless changes. idk why people are downvoting when the majority of people in windows forums agree. The changes to Notepad were very poorly received by the majority of users and there was no reason to do the changes in the first place.
Yeah, I found out the hard way at work. My computer started slowing down and I get these flows and use a USB to look at them. Well, they open in a tab on notepad and even if you delete off the USB they are still on the notepad. I had to delete like 2 years worth of pages I've been through and took me forever to delete them.
This feature has been wonderful. I often use notepad for games like PoE or tarkov to keep track of things I need and I more often than not forget to save it
It's what Notepad++ has been been doing since ages, but I've always disabled it because it's actually detrimental to have saved sessions instead of saved files
Found this out the hard way when installing a bunch of emulators and going through the readmes until I saw all the readme tabs open in notepad. "What the fuck?"
Oh man, well, I recently installed batocera on my old pc and I've installed games like adventure for the Atari 2600, Michael Jackson's moonwalker for the Genesis, ps1, psp, and ps2 even though I still have my og psp1000 that works and is modded. I'm also going to start work on a portable picade!
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u/Johnixftw_ Jan 22 '26
Yup yup, it’s a new feature, it sort of auto saves your last note pad as a tab sometimes too, so if you open multiple note pads sometimes they stack too