Online Notepad — Quick Note Taker

Every browser already ships with a text box you cannot save, and every notes app wants an account before it will let you type. Online Notepad sits between the two. Open the page, start writing, and the words are still there tomorrow, because they were written to this browser’s own storage and never sent anywhere.

Up to 20 separate notes sit in a list beside the editor, each one titled from its own first line, so a phone number you scribbled during a call does not end up buried under yesterday’s meeting record. Word count, character count, line count and a reading estimate at 200 words per minute update while you type. Focus mode hides the list, the toolbar labels and everything else that is not the page you are writing on.

The Controls Along the Top Bar

• New note opens a blank note and switches to it, leaving the previous one untouched in the list. It greys out at 20.
• Load Sample drops in a real note to write over. The first press gives a standup log headed Standup — Thursday, complete with a blocked item nobody has answered since Tuesday; press it again for a kiln firing schedule, then an incident postmortem.
• Clear and Delete are not the same button. Clear empties the note you are in and keeps it in the list; Delete removes the note itself, and if it was the last one, a fresh empty note takes its place so you are never left with nowhere to type.
• .md saves the current note as a Markdown file named after its first line, which is the way to get a note out of this browser and into another one.
• Focus mode collapses the note list and stretches the editor to full width. Esc brings the list back.

How Big a Note Can Get Before Storage Stops

One note holds 100,000 characters, roughly 16,000 words or a 60-page chapter. Typing past that stops adding text and shows “This note is at the 100,000-character ceiling. Anything further is not stored.” The 20-note cap and that ceiling together stay well inside the roughly 5 MB most browsers allot a single origin, which is the real constraint underneath both numbers. If storage is refused outright, in private browsing or on a full quota, a red banner says so and tells you to copy or download the note before closing the tab, rather than letting you discover the loss later.

What Happens When You Close the Tab

Nothing, which is the point. Notes are written 600 ms after you stop typing, and the footer switches from Saving… to the clock time of the last successful write, so there is always an answer to “did that save?” on screen. Impatient writers can press Ctrl/⌘+S to force a write immediately instead of waiting out the pause. What this does mean: notes live in one browser on one device, so clearing site data erases them and opening the same page on your phone shows an empty notepad. Nothing is synced because nothing is uploaded.