0 Notepad++

Are you still using the original Notepad in Windows? It's time for a change! Notepad++ is an advanced version of Notepad which comes with many more features, and I promise it will make your life easier. It's especially good for people who are coding, but it's still an amazing upgrade for a home user nonetheless.

Notepad++ comes with great features such as highlighting / folding, opening your notepad documents in tabs instead of windows, making macros, (it records the things you do and you can recall it later) launching the notepad file in different browsers, (good for web programming) auto completion, customizable GUI, document map, plugin support for anything you might possibly need in Notepad, and many more.

The plugins include various things such as spell checking, exporting your file, quick translation, automatic saving, and the list goes on. There are too much plugins for me to actually talk about one by one here!

There are a few popular Notepad++ plugins which everyone using Notepad++ should have in my opinion. My recommendations in this case would be having Compare, Explorer, Multi-Clipboard, CharM, TopMost, AutoSave, and SpellChecker. Let's see what these plugins do one by one.

Compare : Shows you the changes between the saved document and the one you are working on at that moment.

Explorer : Think of it as an integrated Windows Explorer. It allows you to open any files on your system via Notepad++.

Multi-Clipboard : This one is pretty straight forward. It gives you more than one clipboard where you can see all your copies stored.

CharM : A special character map for the things you can't insert via your keyboard.

TopMost : Allows Notepad++ to be always on top.

AutoSave : Saves your document every X seconds where you choose the value for X.

SpellChecker : It's a spelilng checker!

You can find more information about Notepad++ here. I doubt you will look back to the original Notepad after using Notepad++, with all these great features.

I hope you enjoyed the read!