- Microsoft adds an AI-driven writing feature to the Notepad as part of Copilot Plus
- Write user’s prompts to generate and refine text
- The update also improves paint with a sticker generator and the snip tool with smart pruning
Microsoft Notepad is about such a basic tool as you find on Windows. Just a basic empty slate for writing. But like everything else these days, Microsoft has decided to add a notepad with some AI.
The new Notepad feature is called “Write” and is part of a Windows 11 update currently tested by Windows Insiders.
As the name suggests, Write the Notepad gets to write (and edit). You can submit a prompt and it will prepare text on your behalf or rewrite something you have already put together into something more polished or of a different length or tone. Simply right -click in a document and then click Write and Windows Copilot produces a quick box.
You can submit the prompt and see what AI is coming on. Then you can choose to accept it, refine it or start over.
The feature is based on other AI tools that the Notepad added over the past year or so. There is the Summary Tool and the Rewrite Tool to let you fined your text’s tone or structure.
Really, “Write” is the big one. It makes notepad from a passive canvas to something a little more active and encourages people to collaborate with one of Microsoft’s many AI interfaces.
Snip and Painer AI
Notepad is not the only AI improvement added to classic Microsoft apps. Paint gets an AI sticker that transforms text into images and an object selection tool that uses AI to find out what is foreground and what is background. In the meantime, Microsoft’s SNIP tool can now automatically crop and change the size of your screens based on what it thinks you are trying to highlight.
Now all this AI magic is not completely free. To use the new Notepad and Paint features, log in with a Microsoft account and run Windows 11 on one of Microsoft’s new Copilot Plus PCs. There is also a credit system in place, which means that the AI tools will be measured, although Microsoft has not announced how much this will cost yet.
