# Online Notepad - Saves in Your Browser, Word Count, Download as .txt Page: https://hirantha.me/tools/online-notepad Part of: Hirantha Sandaruwan Lakshan free tools (https://hirantha.me/tools) Updated: 2026-10-15 An online notepad that saves in your own browser as you type. Several notes, word count, download or open .txt files, full screen mode. No account, nothing uploaded. This is a free tool that runs in the browser: open the page to use it. File tools process files on the visitor's own device; files are never uploaded or stored. No account, sign-up, payment or watermark. Type, and your notes are saved in this browser a moment later. Keep up to 100 notes, count words and characters, switch to a full screen writing mode, and download any note as a .txt file or open one from your computer. There is no account, and nothing is sent to a server. About half a second after you stop typing, your notes are written to your browser's localStorage under one key. They are also written at once when you switch tabs, close the page or leave the tool, and the page shows when it last saved. The stored notes are read before anything is written, so a blank page can never replace what you wrote. If stored notes cannot be read, for example because the data is damaged, a copy is kept under a second key and you can download it instead of it being overwritten. localStorage belongs to one browser on one device. MDN says browsers can store up to 5 MiB of local storage per origin and throw a QuotaExceededError when it is full. If that happens this page says so and keeps your text on screen so you can download it. MDN also notes that private windows may apply different quotas and usually delete stored data when they close. Clearing site data, or using another browser or device, removes or hides your notes, so download anything you cannot lose. A note's title is its first line with text, or a name you give it with Rename. New note adds one at the top of the list. Delete note and Delete all notes both ask you to confirm. Up to 100 notes are kept, each up to 500,000 characters. Words are runs of characters between spaces or line breaks. Characters are counted as Unicode code points, so a simple emoji counts as one. Lines are numbered as an editor numbers them, so a line break at the end starts a new, empty line. Download .txt saves the open note as UTF-8 text. Open a .txt reads a file of up to 1 MB as a new note. It understands UTF-8 and UTF-16 files that start with a byte order mark, turns Windows and old Mac line breaks into plain ones, and refuses files that look binary or are not valid UTF-8 rather than showing garbage. Undo and redo are your browser's own text box behaviour (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y). The undo history is kept while you stay on a note and starts again when you switch notes. If the notepad is open in two tabs, the tab you edit last wins. The other tab is told that the notes changed (the browser's storage event only reaches tabs other than the one that made the change, MDN) and offers to load the other version. Before this page replaces a version that another tab saved, it keeps a copy of that version under a separate key, and the page offers it as a download until you choose Delete saved data. A save never replaces a version this page has not seen without keeping it first. Q: Where are my notes stored? A: In your browser's localStorage on this device, under the key hsl:kit:notepad:v1. They are not sent to a server, so this site cannot see them. They are stored as plain text, so anyone who uses this browser profile could read them. Q: Will I lose my notes if I clear my browsing data? A: Yes. Clearing site data removes localStorage, and a different browser, device or private window starts with no notes. Private windows may also delete stored data when they close (MDN). Download a .txt copy of anything important. Q: Is there a limit on how much I can write? A: Up to 100 notes of 500,000 characters each, and the browser's own limit, which MDN puts at 5 MiB of local storage per origin. If the browser's storage is full, the page tells you the last change was not saved. Q: Can I get a deleted note back? A: No. Deleting a note, or all notes, cannot be undone, which is why the page asks you to confirm first. Delete saved data in the panel at the bottom removes everything this tool has stored in your browser. Q: Does it sync between my phone and my computer? A: No. Each browser keeps its own notes. To move one, download it as .txt on one device and open it on the other. Q: What happens if I open it in two tabs? A: The tab you edit last wins. The other tab shows a notice that the notes were changed elsewhere and lets you load that version or keep its own. The version that gets replaced is kept as a copy you can download, so one tab cannot silently destroy the other's notes. Sources: MDN: Storage quotas and eviction criteria (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage_API/Storage_quotas_and_eviction_criteria); MDN: the storage event (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/storage_event) Related tools: - [Word & character counter](https://hirantha.me/tools/word-counter.md): Live word, character, sentence, and reading-time counts as you type. - [Checklist maker](https://hirantha.me/tools/checklist-maker.md): Make checklists that save in your browser: tick, edit, reorder, see progress, and share as plain text or Markdown. Starter lists included. Nothing is uploaded. - [Case converter](https://hirantha.me/tools/case-converter.md): Convert text to uppercase, lowercase, title case, or camelCase. - [Markdown previewer](https://hirantha.me/tools/markdown-previewer.md): Type Markdown and see it rendered live: headings, lists, tables, task lists, links and code. 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