Microsoft is testing AI-powered summaries in Notepad. In an replace rolling out to Home windows Insiders within the Canary and Dev channels, you’ll be capable to summarize info in Notepad by highlighting a piece of textual content, right-clicking it, and choosing Summarize.
Notepad will then generate a abstract of the textual content, in addition to present an possibility to alter its size. You can even generate summaries by choosing textual content and utilizing the Ctrl + M shortcut or selecting Summarize from the Copilot menu.
As is the case with different AI options in Home windows 11, you should be signed right into a Microsoft account to make use of Notepad’s AI summaries. You can even disable AI options fully from the app settings menu. Microsoft first began testing an AI-powered Rewrite device in Notepad final 12 months.
Moreover AI summaries, Microsoft is testing the flexibility to view your lately closed information in Notepad. It’s additionally bringing a brand new function to the Snipping Device referred to as “draw & maintain.”
When marking up a screenshot utilizing the app, you may maintain your cursor for just a bit longer when drawing a line, arrow, rectangle, or oval, and it’ll routinely straighten out your traces. You’ll be able to then resize, transfer, or modify the form. It sounds fairly just like a function Apple presents, too.
