Microsoft is testing the autosave function in Notepad. The feature made its way into the Windows Insider Program, a beta testing service and early access platform for developers. The novelty is another one released by Microsoft for Notepad in recent times.
Although the program is a very basic text editor, in which most users must use to make punctual notes, save passwords whose recovery is a bag to do or save only a few sentences that do not compensate for the effort of opening a Word (and all this leaving on the desktop and never opening again), Microsoft continues to bring news to the software – leaving more and more the adjective “basic” in the past.
The autosave feature was spotted on the Windows Insider Program’s Canary and Dev channels. Canary and Dev are the most “raw” versions of future Windows 11 updates—with Canary being the “level” with features in the earliest (and unstable) phase of development.
By being in these versions, the functionality is “far” from arriving in some official Windows update. The quotation marks in the distance refer to the fact that it is an “abstract” waiting time: it can take a few months or a few weeks. If it were on the Windows beta channel, it would be a very close launch signal.
Notepad has received good news in recent times
Even though it’s a simple program, Microsoft has released pretty cool (and useful) features for Notepad: tabs for editing multiple notes in a single window, warning when you write passwords in the program, and even a dark mode.
I haven’t used Notepad in a long time (OneDrive, Google Drive, and password managers have changed my habit on Windows). However, it is nice to see that the program remains modern and up-to-date, with practical features for users.
