Share a Note via a Link
Generate a link that contains your entire note inside the URL. Send it anywhere. Nothing touches our servers.
Open the notepad →How sharing works
When you click File → Share link (or press Ctrl+L), the notepad encodes your text into the URL fragment — the part after the #. Anyone who opens the link will see the note. The content is embedded in the link itself.
This matters because of a quirk of how the web works: browsers never send URL fragments to servers. So when someone opens your shared link, the note exists only in their browser. No server ever sees it. Not ours, not anyone's.
What this gives you
- Real privacy. Your note is not stored in any database. There is no database.
- No accounts. Neither you nor the recipient needs to sign up.
- No expiry. The link works forever, because the note is the link.
- No tracking. We can't track who opened the note, because we never see it open.
The trade-off
Because the note lives in the URL, very long notes make very long URLs. For most notes (up to a few thousand characters) this is fine — modern browsers handle URLs of 8000+ characters easily. For very long documents, save to a file instead with Ctrl+S.
How other notepads handle sharing
| Notepad | Sharing | Where the note lives |
|---|---|---|
| This notepad | Link with note inside it | Nowhere — only in the link |
| OnlineNotepad.org | None | Only your browser |
| aNotepad | Custom URL on their server | Their database |
| Hyper Notepad | Encrypted link | Their server (encrypted) |