Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad.

Microsoft is adding text formatting to its Windows Notepad app. The significant Notepad update is available for Canary and Dev Channel testers on Windows 11, and introduces bold and italic styling ...

Microsoft has added bold, italic, and Markdown support to Notepad for Windows 11, updating the famously simple text editor with formatting tools.