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Scratch Notepad

A plain-text scratchpad that saves as you type and survives a reload, with a word count.

A text area that is one tab away and still there tomorrow. Typing saves itself, several notes can be kept side by side, and nothing goes to a server — which is the point, and also the reason the download button is never far from the text.

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Notes are kept in this browser’s storage — not on a server, not on your other devices, and not readable by this site’s operators. Clearing site data clears them.

How to use it

  1. Start typing

    The first non-empty line becomes the note’s title in the list, so there is no title field to fill in.

  2. Keep separate notes

    A new note per subject rather than one long scroll; the list on the side switches between them and shows when each was last touched.

  3. Download what matters

    One button writes the note as a .txt. Anything you would mind losing should exist as a file somewhere else too.

Common questions

Is it saved as I type?

Within a fraction of a second. The save is deliberately delayed rather than run on every keystroke, because writing to browser storage serialises the whole document and doing that per character is a visible stutter once the note is a few hundred kilobytes.

How much can it hold?

Browser storage is normally around 5 MB per site, shared with the other tools here. That is a few hundred pages of text — enough for notes, not a place to keep a manuscript.

The page says it cannot store anything

A private window, or site data blocked in the browser settings. The notepad still works for as long as the tab is open; download before you close it.

Feed it from

Next

These accept what this tool produces, so the result can go straight in.