Online Notepad

How to use it

1. Start typing. The note saves itself about half a second after you stop, and again when you switch notes, leave the box or close the tab. The status line says when it last saved.
2. The first line of a note becomes its name in the list. + New note starts another; the search box finds notes containing every word you type, ignoring capitals and accents (cafe finds café).
3. Use Download .txt or .md for a copy of the current note, or All notes (.zip) for everything at once. Each file is named after the note’s first line, cleaned so Windows, macOS and Linux all accept it.
4. Open file… (or dropping files on the page) turns text files into notes. Files up to 2 MB that read as text are taken; anything else, such as an image, is listed as not imported.
5. Delete has a ten-second Undo. Print prints only the note text, across as many pages as it needs.

Where your notes are kept, and for how long

Each note is stored in your browser’s local storage for this site, on this device. Nothing is sent to us or anyone else, which also means notes do not follow you to another browser or computer, and anyone who uses this browser profile can open them. For private text, use our Encrypted Notepad, which locks text with a passphrase.

Browsers cap local storage at about 5 MB per site. In Chromium 141 the limit we measured was 5,242,880 characters, counting every key and value, and that space is shared by all the tools on this site. The bar under the editor shows how much is used. Plain text is small: Project Gutenberg’s text of Pride and Prejudice is about 729,000 characters, so the space holds roughly seven novels that long.

Stored data can still disappear in three ways. Private or incognito windows delete it when they close. When a disk runs short of space, browsers clear data from the sites used least recently, unless the site has been granted persistent storage; the Ask to keep it button requests that (Chrome and Edge decide from how often you use the site, Firefox asks you). And Safari deletes everything a site saved through scripts after seven days of using Safari without visiting that site. Anything you would hate to lose should be downloaded as a file, which no browser will clear.

What happens when storage is full

A save replaces a note’s stored copy in one step, so when the browser refuses a save, the previous saved version is still there. The page then shows a red Not saved notice with a Download button for what you have on screen, and keeps trying as you type, so saving resumes as soon as space is freed. There is no separate index of notes that could fall out of step: the list is rebuilt from the notes themselves each time the page opens.

What we tested

On October 15, 2026, in Chromium 141.0.7390.37:

Tips

1. Download the ZIP of all notes now and then; it is the backup that survives clearing your browser.
2. Turn off Wrap lines and turn on Monospace for code, tables made of spaces or log files.
3. Select part of a note to see its word and character count next to the totals.
4. Writing Markdown? Save as .md and open it in Markdown Preview to see it formatted.

Frequently Asked Questions

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