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Online Notepad
A plain text notepad in your browser tab that saves as you type and is still there after a reload, with word counts and a .txt download.
Autosave notepad
Looking for a saved note…
Word and character count
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Saved size is what the note weighs once encoded, which is what the 32.0 KB limit applies to — accented letters, emoji and non-Latin scripts take more than one byte each.
Most of what gets typed into a computer in a day is not a document. It is a phone number read out over a call, three lines of a reply being drafted before it is sent, a command someone pasted, a list of four things to do before lunch. Opening a word processor for that is absurd and everybody knows it, which is why so many people keep an untitled file permanently open instead.
This page is that file, minus the file. Type in the box and it is already saved.
Autosave notepad: what survives a reload and what does not
There is no save button because there is nothing to press. A moment after you stop typing, the note is written; the line above the box tells you when that has happened. Closing the tab, reloading, following a link and coming back, or restarting the machine all leave the note intact.
Four things end it, and they are worth knowing in advance. Clearing your browsing history or site data removes it along with everything else. Private and incognito windows throw their storage away when you close them, by design. Another browser on the same computer is a different store and will show an empty box. So is another computer.
Signing in is what removes the last two. The note is then written to your account as well as to the device, so it can be read back anywhere you sign in. Nothing else about the tool changes, and you are never made to sign in to use it — that is the deliberate arrangement, not a trial.
Where your text actually lives
Signed out, the note is kept in your browser's own storage on your own machine, and it is kept nowhere else. Signed in, there is exactly one further copy — the one in your account, which is what makes the note portable.
One thing that would be easy to leave out and should not be. Saving runs through the same code either way: each autosave calls this site's own save endpoint, and when you are not signed in that endpoint turns the write down, so no record is created and nothing is retained. Your note is transmitted to be refused rather than quietly held. The alternative — a separate signed-out path that skips the call — sounds tidier and is worse, because the path nobody is signed in for becomes the path nobody exercises. Either way nothing reaches a third party.
That is the whole picture, and it is the reason the size limit below exists at all rather than being invisible.
The 32 KB limit and what happens at it
One saved note holds 32 KB. That is a lot of scratchpad — call it thirty thousand characters of English — and very few notes reach it. The ones that do are usually a log somebody has been pasting into for a week.
When a note goes past the limit the tool says so and stops claiming to save. It does not shorten your note to make itself work, and it does not carry on showing "saved" over a save that is not happening. The counter shows the saved size, not just the character count, because the two are different: an accented letter, a Cyrillic one or an emoji each take more than one byte, so a note in a language other than English reaches the ceiling sooner than its character count suggests.
Word and character count
The strip under the box reports words, characters, lines and the saved size. Words here are whitespace-separated runs, which is the count you want while writing rather than a formal one — it is there to tell you roughly how far you have got.
Download notes as a .txt file
The download button hands you a plain .txt of exactly what is in the box. It
is worth taking whenever a note stops being scratch and starts being something
you would be annoyed to lose, because a downloaded file is outside everything
described above: no browser storage to clear, no account to be signed out of.
What this notepad does not do
It has no password and no sharing, and both are deliberate. A password over text that sits readable in your own browser's storage would be decoration. Sharing would mean publishing your words to an address, which is a different product entirely. Clear is undoable for thirty seconds and then it is not, because a clear that hedges is not a clear.
Questions
- Will my notes still be here if I close the tab?
- Yes, in the same browser on the same device. Everything you type is written a moment after you stop typing, and reopening the page loads it back. What ends it is clearing your browsing data, using private or incognito mode, a different browser, or a different computer — in each of those the note is not gone from anywhere except the place it was kept, but that place is the only place it was. Signing in changes that: the note is then written to your account as well, and it follows you to any device where you sign in again.
- Where is my note actually stored?
- Signed out, in your browser's own storage on the machine you typed it on, and it is kept nowhere else. Signed in, it is written to your account as well, which is what lets you read it back on another device. One detail worth stating rather than glossing: the tool uses this site's own save endpoint on the same code path whether or not you are signed in, so a signed-out autosave does send the note to that endpoint and the endpoint refuses it — no row is created and nothing is kept. It is one code path deliberately, because a tool that took a different route depending on who you are is a tool where the signed-out route is the one nobody tests. Nothing goes to any third party in either case.
- Why did my notepad stop saving?
- Because the note passed 32 KB, which is the size limit on one save slot, and the tool tells you the moment it does. Nothing has been cut — every word is still in the box and the download button still works — but new keystrokes are not being written, so a reload would take you back to the last version that fitted. Roughly, 32 KB is thirty to thirty-five thousand characters of ordinary English, and considerably fewer if the note is in Chinese, Arabic or anything with accents, because those characters take more than one byte each. The counter under the box shows the saved size so you can watch it approach.
- Can I put a password on my notes?
- No, and it is worth saying why rather than just no. This notepad has no login wall in front of it and the text sits in your browser's storage in plain form, where anyone who can open the browser can read it with or without a prompt. A password field on top of that would look like protection and provide none, which is worse than not having one, because it would change what people are willing to type. Treat this the way you would treat a paper pad left on the desk — fine for a shopping list, a draft or a phone number, wrong for anything you would mind the next person reading.
- Can I share a note with someone else?
- Not from here. Sharing would mean publishing your text to an address somebody else can open, which is a different kind of product with a different set of problems behind it, so this tool does not pretend to offer it. Use the .txt download and send the file, or select the text and paste it wherever you were going to share it.
- I cleared my note by accident — can I get it back?
- For thirty seconds, yes. Clearing puts an undo control on screen and keeps the old text in the tab's memory until either you take the offer, you start typing something new, or the window passes. After that it is gone, because the whole point of clear is that it clears. If a note matters, the safest habit is the .txt download — that copy is yours and nothing here can reach it.