That's what Scrawl can do for you. My very first post at Lifehacker was about rolling your own menubar-based notepad using an HTML file and Fluid, the great site-specific browser (SSB) creator.

Displaying Unicode in Notepad. If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that ...

If you ever need a quick scratchpad to just write, not save what you write, but just write, you can quickly turn your web browser into an ultra-basic notepad with a single line of HTML. This ...

Now that your preferences will stay put, you can put a lot of handy things in your headers and footers. You can have Notepad automatically insert the date or time, for example.

If you've ever wished you had a quick-access scratchpad in your OS X menubar, there's a quick and easy way to get one with free site-specific browser application Fluid and an HTML document.

Microsoft Paint and Notepad are getting new AI features that can add and remove images from photos and offer rewrites of text.

Image showing Notepad with highlighted text and a dialogue with the results of using the summarize feature to summarize the text. Microsoft Notepad, one of the iconic features of Windows, might ...

Windows Notepad is getting a new AI 'Rewrite' tool that will let you highlight text and tap into generative AI to rewrite and change it.