Online notepad.

In this browser's localStorage, on this device. They are written a moment after you stop typing and again when you leave the page, so closing the tab loses nothing. Another browser or device starts with its own notes, and clearing the site's data removes them.

Yes, up to 50. New note adds one on top of the list, and each one is titled by its first line, as a notes app does. Click a title, or move through the list with the arrow keys, to open another.

Words are the runs of text between spaces, characters count every letter, space and emoji as one, and lines count the line breaks. The reading time assumes 200 words a minute.

Yes. Open a file takes .txt, .md, .csv, .json and .log files, or drop them on the note, and each becomes a new note. A note holds up to 500,000 characters.

The download icon saves the open note as a .txt file named after its first line, and the copy icon puts its text on the clipboard. Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on a Mac) writes the notes to the browser at once instead of opening the browser's save dialog.

Yes. After Delete this note, an Undo delete button puts it back where it was, until you delete another. Deleting the only note empties it instead, so there is always one to write in.

Sans, Serif or Mono, set in the bar and saved with the notes. Mono lines up columns of text, code and lists. The font is the page's only: a downloaded .txt file has none.

No. The notepad runs in your browser and makes no request with what you write. There is no account and no sync, so your notes are as private as this browser profile.

No. The "Online notepad" tool is free and opens without a sign-in, an account or an install.

Three sample notes: a launch checklist, a grocery list and blog ideas. Write over them or delete them; from then on, your own notes are what it keeps.

Up to 50 notes of up to 500,000 characters each, about 200 pages. A file longer than that is declined with a message when you open it.

One localStorage entry on this device, holding the notes' text, which note is open and the font. Nothing else is kept, and nothing is sent to a server.

Once the page has loaded, yes: writing, saving, counting and downloading make no request. The reading time assumes 200 words a minute.

Closest to the "Online notepad" tool: To-do list, Kanban board, Text counter, Text case converter. Each opens on its own page, free and in the browser.

The "Online notepad" tool is one of 6 in its group. The group's page, /tools/productivity, lists them all.

The tool is free. Its interface is built from shadcn.io's own components (Button, Input, Slider and the rest of the registry under /ui), which come in React, Vue, Svelte and Solid. Pro adds the blocks and templates for the product around it.