Online notepad
Write, autosave and download plain text notes without an account.
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A blank page for text, open the moment the page loads. Type or paste, and the note is kept in this browser shortly after you stop, so a closed tab or a reload does not cost you the text. Under the editor you get live words, characters, lines and paragraphs; above it a switch to a monospace face for code and tables. Use it for a quick idea, a draft you do not want in a document yet, or text stripped of formatting on its way between two apps. The note never leaves your device, and you can take it away as a .txt file.
How to use
- Start typing or paste your text. The note saves itself in this browser shortly after you stop.
- Read the counts under the editor: words, characters, characters without spaces, lines and paragraphs.
- Switch on the monospace font for code or a table whose columns need to line up.
- Press Go fullscreen for a blank screen with nothing but your text; Esc brings the page back.
- Use Download .txt to save the note as a file, or Copy to move it into another app.
What it handles
- Autosave holds up to 200 KB of text. Above that the status line says autosave is off, instead of losing the note quietly.
- Emoji and letters with accent marks count as one character each, and every Chinese or Japanese character counts as one word.
- Lines are counted the way an editor counts them, so a note ending in a line break has an empty last line.
- The downloaded .txt uses Windows line endings, so the file opens as separate lines in Notepad and in editors on macOS and Linux alike.
- The file name comes from the first line of the note; characters Windows forbids are dropped, and a note with no first line is named after the date.
- Clear asks for a second click, so one stray tap cannot delete a long note.
FAQ
Where is my note saved?
In your browser's local storage, on this device only. It is not sent anywhere, not tied to an account, and not shared between browsers or between your phone and your laptop. Anyone using the same browser profile on this computer can read it, so treat it like an unlocked text file.
Will my note still be there tomorrow?
Yes, if you come back in the same browser on the same device. Clearing your browsing data, using a private or incognito window, or a browser that evicts site storage to free space will remove it. When a note matters, download it as a .txt file: that copy is a normal file on your disk and nothing can quietly drop it.
Is there a limit on how much I can write?
The editor itself handles very long texts, and counting keeps up because notes over 50 000 characters are counted in a background thread. Autosave is the part with a limit: it stores up to 200 KB, which is roughly 200 000 English characters or 100 000 Ukrainian ones. Past that the status line tells you autosave is off.
Can I open an existing .txt file here?
No. This notepad does not read files from your disk; it only writes them. Open the file in any text editor, select everything and paste it here. Nothing you paste is uploaded, so a confidential document is as safe here as in an offline editor, and you can download it again afterwards.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Once the page has loaded, the notepad needs no connection: typing, counting, autosave, the monospace switch, fullscreen and the download all run in the page. You do need JavaScript enabled, because the editor and the counts are script, not a form posted to a server.
Why does the downloaded file have Windows line endings?
Because a .txt written with bare line-feed characters shows up as one long line in older versions of Windows Notepad, and a file nobody can read is worse than a file with two extra bytes per line. Editors on macOS, Linux, Android and iOS read the pair without complaining.
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