从名称上看，它们看起来是一样的，但不知何故，它们在特性和功能上有所不同，因为它们都包含在 Microsoft Windows 操作系统中。
1. 记事本：
它是 Microsoft Windows 的基本文本编辑器或编辑程序，使计算机用户可以在其中创建文档。
2. 写字板：
它也是一种基本的编辑类型的程序，可帮助创建带有一些附加格式功能的文档，如信件、报告、笔记等。它是在更换微软作家之后出现的。
写字板和记事本的区别：
NotePad |
WordPad |
|---|---|
| It is a simple and easy tool for basic plain text entry | It is simple and easier than MS Word |
| It can be used for doing a couple of different ways | It is an easy tool for doing simple tasks |
| It is made for to create the documents only | It is made for formatting and printing the documents |
| It is a text editor program | It is a word processor program |
| It is just a simple text editor that does not include any formatting options into it. | It helps in creating the documents which include graphics and various text formatting options into it |
| It is a text editor that is included with the windows operating system | It is also a text editor which is included with the windows operating system. |
| It was launched by Microsoft in the year 1983 | It was launched by Microsoft along with Windows 95 |
| Notepad is a text editor | WordPad is a basic word processor. |
| Notepad can only save text as it is better for creating webpages | It helps in saving the text with the basic formatting like font styles and sizes etc. |
| It can only save documents as .txt files only | It can be saved as .txt and .rtf Rich Text Format files both |
| Images and other graphics options are not added to this | Images and other graphic options can be added to this. |
| The files like Rich text formats Wordpad are cannot be opened into it | Any notepad file can be opened with this |
| It includes the options like files, edit, view, format, and helps options only into it | It includes more options which are easily available in it |
| It does not include any formatting options as no formatting of the text is done into it. It only focuses on creating the text files only. | It includes the formatting options into it like italic, bold, font style and size, etc. |
| It is a good choice for creating webpages or HTML documents and writing the basic computer programs also | It is a good choice for writing papers or creating documents that you want to print |
| It is also helpful for removing formatting from the text which is copied and which you wanted to paste somewhere else as a plain text | As it supports the bullets into it which is helpful for making lists |
| Just paste the text into Notepad, copy it again from Notepad, and you have completely unformatted text | You can use WordPad to open an unformatted text document and add whatever formatting you want |