Online Notepad
A distraction-free notepad that autosaves to your browser’s local storage as you type, so your note survives a reload with no account needed.
Insert date, symbol or emoji
Find and replace
🔒 Your note stays on this device in local storage. Clearing your browser data removes it.
A scratchpad that saves itself
Online Notepad is a clean, distraction-free place to jot down text right in your browser. Everything you type is saved automatically to your browser local storage, so your note is still there when you reload the page or come back later — no account and no setup required. It stays a plain-text box: for Markdown with a live preview, use Markdown to HTML, and for bold, italic and underline, the WYSIWYG HTML editor.
Private and offline
Nothing is uploaded. Your note lives only on this device unless you copy a link to it yourself, so it keeps working with no internet connection at all. Use the Download button to save a .txt file, Print to put the whole note on paper — every line, long lines wrapped to the sheet, without the buttons — or choose Save as PDF in the print dialog for a PDF, Copy to grab the whole note, Sample to see an example, or Clear to wipe both the editor and the saved copy — an Undo button appears right after it, so a misclick does not cost you the note. Before a change the box’s own undo cannot reach — Clear, the Paste button, an opened file, Sample, a replace or a restore — and when you start typing again after a pause, the note as it stood is kept in this browser as an earlier version; “Earlier versions of this note” lists them with when each was kept, and Restore brings one back. Live word, character, line and sentence counts update as you type, and “Insert date, symbol or emoji” under the note puts the date and time, a symbol from a small character map or an everyday emoji where the cursor is.
Frequently asked questions
Where is my note saved?
It is saved in your browser local storage under the key makerbox-notepad. Every note is kept together under makerbox-notepad-notes, and earlier versions under makerbox-notepad-versions. The text stays on this device and is never sent to a server.
Will my note still be here after I close the tab?
Yes. The note is restored automatically the next time you open the page in the same browser. Clearing your browser data removes it. Pressing Clear empties it, but what it held is first kept as an earlier version of the note.
Is there a word or character limit?
No. Because everything runs locally in your browser, you can write as much as your device can handle, and the word, character, line and sentence counters update instantly. A link that carries a note does have a limit (see the question on sending a note, below).
Can I keep more than one note, or find and replace inside a note?
Yes. Start a new note and the others stay in the list below the buttons, each one a click away; deleting one can be undone. A find-and-replace panel works inside the note you are on.
Can I get back an earlier version of a note?
Yes. Before a change the box’s own undo cannot reach — Clear, the Paste button, an opened file, Sample, a replace or a restore — and when you start typing again after a pause, the note as it stood is kept in this browser as an earlier version, a limited number per note with the oldest going first. Open “Earlier versions of this note” under the note to see when each was kept, its first line and its length, and press Restore on the one you want; the text it replaces is kept as a version too, so a restore can itself be taken back.
Can I insert the date, a symbol or an emoji, or count sentences?
Yes. Open “Insert date, symbol or emoji” under the note: “Date and time” writes the current date and time the way the page’s language writes them, and the Symbols and Emoji rows put a character such as —, ©, → or ₩, or an everyday emoji, where the cursor is — over the selection if there is one — and leave the cursor after it. A fourth count, Sentences, sits beside the word, character and line counts, counted the way the word counter counts them.
Can I send a note to someone?
Yes, a short one. Copy link puts the note itself into the link, after the #, which the browser never sends to a server. Opening the link puts the note in that browser's notepad beside the notes already there, never over one of them, and opening the same link again does not add it twice. A link holds at most 2,000 characters of address: an English letter takes one of them and a Korean syllable nine. For a longer note Copy link is greyed out, a sentence under the buttons says why, and Download is the way to send it.