Free Online Notepad

There is nothing to set up. The page is the notepad.

1. Click into the writing area and type. The note is saved a moment after every change, and a line under the box confirms it with a message such as Saved in this browser at 14:32:05.
2. Watch the Words, Characters and Lines counters update beside the box.
3. Close the tab, restart the browser or come back tomorrow. Open the same page in the same browser and the note is restored, with a line saying when it was last saved.
4. Press Save now to force a save, Copy to put the whole note on the clipboard, or Download .txt to save it as free-online-notepad.txt.
5. Press Clear for a fresh page. This also deletes the saved copy and there is no undo, so download first if you want to keep the text.

The page works on phones and tablets as well, so it doubles as a scratch pad on any device.

If the line under the box ever turns red and says that autosave is unavailable, the browser is refusing to store data, which is typical in a private window or when site storage is full or blocked. Your text is still on screen at that point, so press Copy or Download .txt straight away. Pasting a long note from another app works normally, and the counters recalculate as soon as the text lands in the box.

The notepad uses local storage, a small area that every modern browser keeps on your own device for each website. When you type, the page writes the text into that space. When you return, it reads the text back. The note is not sent to ToolsWish or any other server, and there is no account to hold it.

• One note per browser. The page keeps a single note. Chrome on your laptop and Safari on your phone each have their own separate copy.
• Two tabs can clash. Each tab saves what you type in it, so if you open the page twice, whichever tab you typed in last overwrites the other.
• Private windows. Storage is discarded when the window closes. If the browser blocks storage, a red message warns that autosave is unavailable.
• Clearing site data. Wiping cookies and site data removes the note along with them.
• Size. Browsers usually allow about 5 MB per site, which holds millions of plain-text characters.

Anyone who can open your browser profile can read the note, so press Clear before leaving a shared computer.

A plain page with autosave covers a surprising number of small jobs.

• Quick capture. A phone number, an address or a thought to paste into another app in a minute.
• Drafting. Write an email or post without the formatting of a full editor, then copy it where it belongs.
• Meetings and lectures. Take running notes without logging in, then download the file.
• To-do lists. Keep a simple list open in a tab all day, perhaps beside the Pomodoro timer.

It is deliberately simple. There is no sync between devices, no formatting, no images and no version history, so treat it as a scratch pad and not an archive. Download anything important, because a privacy setting or cleanup tool could erase browser storage. The text is checked by your browser's own spell check, but there is no grammar help.

When you need figures, paste the text into the word counter or the sentence counter. Text copied from a web page often carries stray formatting, which the remove text formatting tool strips out. For notes that need headings and lists, the Markdown editor shows a live preview.