I Built a Portable Text Editor for Windows — One...

A solo developer's story of building the Notepad replacement that should have existed years ago. I've been using Windows my whole life. And my whole life, every time I needed to write something with a bit of formatting — a heading, some bold text, a colored note — I ended up either opening Word (too heavy), using Notepad (too limited), or pasting into a browser-based tool (too many accounts). WordPad was the middle ground. Then Microsoft removed it from Windows 11. That was the moment I decided