Keeping Tabs On All the New Tabs
The Windows Insider Program:
A Preview of Coming Attractions
My long held belief is that not ready for General Release software isn't really worth the trouble. I have work to do. I am not a hobbyist. So I have been reluctant to join the Windows Insider Program — until recently. And now, at my choice, I am at the Beta level of the Insider Preview, which means it is the version closest to General Release. The motivating factor for me to join was any improvement to the Snippet Tool I want as soon as I can get it. The notion of Tabs in File Explorer was intriguing, but not Earth shaking to me. I immediately disabled the Search Highlights silly little image thingy, if that was related to my new Insider Status. All that said, I now delighted that I am a Windows Insider Previewer. I have Tabs In Notepad. And no recent application has improved my workflow the way Tabs In Notepad has.
On March 13, 2022, I had posted An Introduction to Notepad. Notepad is a very simple text editor. It will strip away any special formatting a piece of text pasted into Notepad that comes from another source, and therefore may be formatted in a manner that won't work for the text's ultimate destination. Notepad is, therefore, an indispensible tool for creating all that I do on both the websites, and in editing Tweets.
I am not Artificial Intelligence; I am Human Intelligence. I
do not scrape the web like a painter preparing a wall for new paint.
I don't use a putty knife to wholesale scrape the web. It's more
like I use a scalpel to carefully cut a small bit of information from a
webpage. Also, I always copy the URL from which the data came so I
can make attribution through hyperlinks. Once more, for all the
It's Gonna Take Over Da World hype,
giving attribution from where information derives is something any
college freshman can do, if they want to. Just not something our
Whiz Bang AIs can pull off.
I work with links on one Notepad
screen and
quotes on other Notepad screens. I may have in mind to use more than one
quote to make one larger point in my thesis. Juggling several
different open application instances of Notepad could often become
unmanageable. Now when I want to paste another quote for later
use, I can first easily paste the link into the links page, and then
open a new tab for the just copied quote.
Opening a new Tab is
simple and intuitive. Click File → New Tab.
And a new Tab opens. I
now have a separate location to store my quote before
I am ready to use it.
Although I always save the links page, which
is like my own bibliography, I usually don't intend on saving the quotes
as separate files. It is a real convenience then that Notepad titles
the each new tab from text contained in that tab.
Microsoft uses the Windows Preview program to test new features.
Tabs in Notepad is one new feature that works beyond expectations.
I would expect this new feature added to Windows 11 via Windows update soon.
Notepad is a
wonderful tool for storing in a random manner any type of collected data.
Notepad text contains no special formatting of its own text, so it will
easily paste into any other type of document that accepts text copied
into it. That means all Office documents. And especially
when creating your special webpages with their own formattind using CSS
and HTML.