Notepad (local, autosaving)
100% PrivateProductivity ToolsWrite distraction-free notes in your browser, saved automatically on your device.
Runs in your browser and saves your work only on this device (browser local storage), never on Ovatly servers. You can export or clear it at any time.
Notes autosave to this browser (local storage on this device) as you type. Nothing is sent to a server. Export anything you cannot afford to lose.
No notes yet. Press New note and start typing; it saves itself.
- 1Press New note and start typing; the note saves automatically with every change.
- 2Click a note in the sidebar to switch to it; the title comes from its first line.
- 3Download the open note as a .txt file, export all notes as a JSON backup, or import a backup to add its notes to your list.
- 4Delete a single note, or delete all notes, with the two-step confirm buttons.
You press New note and type a first line, Ideas for the spring launch, followed by three bullet points. The sidebar immediately lists the note as Ideas for the spring launch with a count of the words you typed, and the footer under the editor reads autosaved on this device. Close the tab, come back tomorrow, and the note is exactly where you left it.
- Notes exist only in this browser on this device. Clearing site data, using private browsing, or switching browsers will lose or hide them, so export anything important.
- There is no formatting, no images and no sharing: plain text only, which is what makes it fast and predictable.
- Very long notes are fine, but local storage has a browser-set quota (usually several megabytes across all notes); the JSON export is the safe backup.
No. Every keystroke updates the stored copy. The word and character counts under the editor confirm the note is being kept.
About this tool
A distraction-free notepad that lives in your browser and saves as you type. Keep several notes in the sidebar, switch between them, and watch the word count update. There is no account and no sync: notes are stored in this browser's local storage on this device. Download any note as a plain text file, or export the whole set as JSON.
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