Features and shortcomings
New+ doesn’t confine you to a few readymade templates. You can create more templates and they will show up in its context menu. New+ stores all the templates in the Documents folder by default. If you use OneDrive, the templates will sync to other connected PCs.
Changing the icons of each of the templates is possible, which makes it easy to comprehend the template’s purpose. New+ can hide or display file extensions and edit the templates.
You can even add or remove the templates from the context menu or change the save location of the templates. The biggest hurdle is an overwhelming list of templates in the context menu.
Windows 11 doesn’t support nested context menus; you must scroll through the long list of templates. Once the OS supports it, you can place templates belonging to a category inside the nested context menu.
For example, multiple job application templates will appear under a nested context menu option called “Job application.”
The name isn’t finalized yet, but the developers plan to create a marketplace for the feature. So you can share or download more templates. Generative AI integration to create templates via prompts is also an appealing idea.
Note that the feature isn’t publicly available yet.
