Online Notepad
A plain text editor that holds several notes at once and writes each one to this browser's own storage a moment after you stop typing, so a closed tab is not a lost note. There is no account and no upload: the word, character and line counts and the cursor position update as you type, any note downloads as a .txt, and every note together downloads as a .zip.
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Notes save to this browser a moment after you stop typing. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account. With a note tab focused, the left and right arrow keys move between notes.
Saved locally means exactly that. Notes are written to this browser’s storage a moment after each keystroke, survive closing the tab and restarting, and never reach a server. They also do not follow you to another device, and clearing site data deletes them, so the download buttons are the backup. Open this page in two tabs at once and both write to the same storage: this tab watches for the other one’s saves and takes them when it has nothing unsaved, folds them in when it does, and says so underneath the editor. A note deleted in one tab stays deleted in the other, unless you carried on writing in it, because text you typed after a delete beats it. That trade is stated here rather than discovered later.
Common questions
- Where are my notes stored?
- In this browser's localStorage, on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere: there is no server in the loop and no account to create. Each note is written a moment after your last keystroke, so closing the tab, quitting the browser or restarting the machine all leave the notes where you left them.
- Will I lose my notes?
- They stay until something clears this browser's storage for the site. Clearing site data or cookies for the site, browsing in a private window, or an extension that sweeps storage will all remove them, and they do not follow you to another browser, another profile or another device. Two tabs of this page share one store, so each tab watches for the other's saves: with nothing unsaved in front of you it takes the newer version, and if you were mid-sentence it merges the two, keeps the newer edit of any note changed in both, and tells you it did. A note deleted in one tab stays deleted in the other, unless you kept writing in it, because text typed after a delete beats it. If a note matters, use Download .txt for that note, or Download all for a .zip of every note: those files sit outside the browser and are yours to keep.
- Can I keep several notes at once?
- Yes. The + button opens another note and the tabs along the top switch between them, with the left and right arrow keys when a tab is focused. Each tab is named by its note's first line, up to 40 characters, so the name follows the text instead of being one more field to fill in. A note with nothing in it yet is named for its position, like Untitled 3. Deleting a note leaves an Undo on screen for a few seconds.
- How do I get a note out of the browser?
- Download .txt saves the note you are looking at, named after its first line. Download all builds a .zip holding one .txt per note, assembled here in the page. Two notes that start with the same line get numbered file names, so nothing is overwritten when the archive unpacks. Copy puts the open note on the clipboard.
- Is anything uploaded, and is there a size limit?
- Nothing is uploaded. The editor is a page of JavaScript, so there is no request carrying your text and no server that could hold it. That is also why there is no sync. This tool imposes no size limit; the real ceiling is what the browser will store, usually roughly 5 MB for this whole site and shared with anything else it keeps here, and the panel under the editor shows how much of that your notes are using.
- What counts as a word here?
- A run of characters with no space in it, which is how a word processor counts: state-of-the-art is one word. Characters count everything you typed, spaces and line breaks included, one per Unicode code point, so an astral character is one character rather than two. Lines count the lines the cursor can sit on, so a trailing newline opens a new one.
Notes are saved to this browser's storage a moment after each keystroke and stay after the tab closes. They do not sync to another device, and clearing site data deletes them, so Download is the backup.