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A private, distraction-free notepad with live Markdown preview, multi-note management, and full offline support. Your notes are stored only in this browser using IndexedDB — no account, no server, nothing ever uploaded.
#tags, export backups from the sidebar.Most note apps begin by asking you to sign up. This one begins with a cursor. Your notes are written to your own browser's storage as you type, which means there is no account to create, no sync to configure and no company holding your text.
That is the trade, stated plainly: your notes live on this device, in this browser. They survive closing the tab, restarting the machine and going offline. They do not follow you to your phone, and clearing your browser data removes them. Use the backup button if a note matters.
You can ignore Markdown entirely and just type. But if you know the handful of characters below, the preview turns plain text into a formatted document as you write:
| Type | Get |
|---|---|
# Heading | A large heading (## for smaller) |
**bold** | Bold text |
*italic* | Italic text |
- item | A bulleted list |
1. item | A numbered list |
- [ ] task | A checklist item |
[text](url) | A link |
`code` | Inline code |
> quote | A blockquote |
Markdown is worth the ten minutes it takes to learn because it is portable. The same characters work in GitHub, Notion, Obsidian, Reddit and Discord, so notes written here paste anywhere without reformatting.
Somewhere to paste text while you move it between two other places, without polluting a real document.
Type in plain text, use checklists for actions, and copy the Markdown straight into your team's tools.
Writing without a formatting toolbar removes the temptation to fiddle with fonts instead of writing.
Anything you would rather not paste into a cloud editor. It never leaves the browser.
On-device storage is private, but it is not a backup. Three things will remove your notes, and none of them are recoverable:
The backup button exports your notes as a file. For anything you would be upset to lose, export it — the same advice applies to any local-only editor.
No. There is nothing to sign up for. Your notes are written to your own browser's storage as you type, so the editor works the moment the page loads.
In your browser's own storage on the device you are using, using IndexedDB. They are not uploaded to us and there is no server copy, which is also why they do not appear on your other devices.
Yes, as you type. There is no save button to remember and no risk of losing work by closing the tab, provided you are not in a private window.
Yes, in the same browser on the same device. They survive closing the tab and restarting the machine. They will not survive clearing your browsing data, and they do not exist in a different browser.
Three things: clearing your browsing or site data, using a private or incognito window that you then close, and switching to a different browser or device. None of those are recoverable, which is what the backup export is for.
Use the sidebar's backup export — a ZIP of Markdown files, or a full JSON archive you can import again later. For anything you would be upset to lose, do that: on-device storage is private, but it is not a backup.
Yes. After your first visit a service worker caches the app, so it opens and keeps auto-saving with no connection at all.
No. You can type plain text and ignore the formatting entirely. Markdown is there if you want it — a handful of characters that turn text into headings, lists and links in the preview as you write.
The common set: headings with #, bold with **, italics with *, bulleted and numbered lists, checklists, links, inline code, fenced code blocks, quotes, images and GFM tables — plus KaTeX maths and Mermaid diagrams. The preview updates live as you type.
Because it is portable. The same characters work in GitHub, Notion, Obsidian, Reddit and Discord, so a note written here pastes into any of them without reformatting. It also keeps you writing instead of fiddling with fonts.
Yes. The sidebar holds all your notes, with search, #tags, pinning, sorting and a trash for anything you delete by accident.
Yes. The status bar shows words, characters, lines and an estimated reading time as you type, along with your cursor position.
The practical limit is your browser's storage quota, which is generous — several megabytes of text, or many thousands of pages of notes. You are very unlikely to reach it.
No. The text never leaves your browser, so there is nothing for us or anyone else to read. That is the main reason to use a local editor for anything sensitive.
Completely. No sign-up, no subscription, no note limit and no watermark on anything you export.