A modern, lightweight, cross-platform text editor with a minimalist design.

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Notepads is a wonderful modern notepad app, but it is a UWP application and only runs on Windows. NotepadE is a faithful, 1:1 rewrite of Notepads on top of web technology and Tauri, so the same clean look and feel can run anywhere: Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The goal is simple: keep everything that made Notepads pleasant to use — the Fluent design, the built-in tab system, the blazingly fast feel — while making it cross-platform and easy to extend. If you liked Notepads but wished it ran on your Mac or your Linux box, this is for you.

• Fluent design with a built-in tab system.
• Lightweight and quick to launch.
• Multi-tab editing with drag-to-reorder.
• Built-in Markdown live preview (with a rich plugin set).
• Built-in diff viewer (preview your changes side by side).
• Line numbers, current-line highlight, and word wrap.
• Find & replace with a top-right search panel.
• Light, dark, and high-contrast themes.

• Ctrl+N/T to create a new tab.
• Ctrl+(Shift)+Tab to switch between tabs.
• Ctrl+Num(1-9) to quickly switch to a specified tab.
• Ctrl+"+"/"-" for zooming. Ctrl+"0" to reset zooming to default.
• Ctrl+L/R to change text flow direction. (LTR/RTL)
• Ctrl+D to duplicate the current line or selection.
• Ctrl+J to join the selected lines.
• Ctrl+E to web-search the selection.
• Alt+Z to toggle word wrap.
• Alt+Up/Down to move the current line up or down.
• F5 to insert the current date and time.
• Alt+P to toggle Markdown preview split view.
• Alt+D to toggle the side-by-side diff viewer.

The Markdown preview (Alt+P on a .md file) is powered by markdown-it and a curated set of plugins from the mdit-plugins collection, so notes render the way you expect:

• Task lists, footnotes, definition lists, and admonition/alert blocks.
• Subscript, superscript, ==marks==, ++inserts++, and spoilers.
• Abbreviations, emoji shortcodes, figures with captions, and custom containers.
• Raw HTML rendering, sanitized with DOMPurify before it ever hits the DOM.
• Remote images, fetched only after the URL and content type pass a safety check.

The preview scrolls in lock-step with the editor, so the rendered output always tracks the text you are editing.

NotepadE is built with Tauri, React, Fluent UI v9, TypeScript, Monaco, and Vite. You will need Node.js 20+, Yarn 4, and the Rust toolchain.

# Install dependencies
yarn install

# Run the app in development
yarn tauri dev

# Type-check, lint, and test
yarn typecheck
yarn lint
yarn test

# Build a distributable for the current platform
yarn tauri build

• NotepadE runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux via Tauri.
• Some platform-specific niceties (jump lists, file associations) depend on the host OS and the packaged build.
• Very large files may affect responsiveness; the editor is tuned for everyday note-taking and config editing.

• NotepadE Releases

To be 100% transparent:

• NotepadE does not and will never collect your personal information.
• It does not track your IP.
• It does not record your typings or read any of your files, including file names and file paths.
• No typings or files are sent to the authors or any third party.

NotepadE is 100% open source. Feel free to review the source code or build your own version.

• 0x7c13/Notepads — the original UWP app this project is a rewrite of, and the source of its design language.

• Tauri
• React
• Fluent UI
• Monaco Editor
• markdown-it
• mdit-plugins
• DOMPurify
• Vite