Trigger's Notepad

As useful as Notepad is, the lack of advanced features is often a problem. Of course, switching to a complex word processor isn’t always the best option, but a slightly more powerful Notepad alternative may be just what you need.

Trigger's Notepad is one of the options at your disposal. It improves upon Notepad in several ways, providing you with a number of useful features, but is not meant to replace programs like Notepad++, as it is still a fairly simple application.

There are plenty of things this application can do that Notepad can’t, such as displaying visible and clickable hyperlinks, converting uppercase text to lowercase and vice versa, as well as converting tabs to spaces and the other way around.

Trigger's Notepad comes equipped with a spell checker, supports line numbering and allows you to move selected text by simply dragging it somewhere else in the document.

What’s more, the application offers support for Markdown, and you can preview the output document with a single hotkey.

The user interface isn’t that different from what Notepad offers, so those who prefer the Windows text editor’s simplistic look should be happy with Trigger's Notepad as well.

One major improvement, however, is the addition of an optional dark mode. The background and foreground colors are inverted when this theme is active, making the application much more suitable for low-light conditions.

The extra feature’s don’t come at a high cost, as Trigger's Notepad does not use up a significant amount of system resources, but it is still quite a bit more demanding than the classic Notepad.

Since pretty much every action can be performed with the help of hotkeys, working with this program is quick and effortless.

On the whole, Trigger's Notepad is a text editor that, for many, may strike the perfect balance between simplicity and versatility. It isn’t designed to replace Notepad++ or advanced word processors, but it is a lot more powerful than Notepad, while still being very lightweight and easy to use.