Notes, right beside the page you’re reading.

Open Chrome’s side panel and start typing. It saves as you go, and there is nothing to set up and nothing to learn.

Coming soon to the Chrome Web Store Free. No account. Chrome 116 or newer.

The Notepad side panel showing a list of colour-coded notes: Weekend plans, Garden ideas, a recipe, a book club note and more, with a search box at the top.

Write

Bold, colour and highlight. Bullet lists, numbered lists and tick-boxes. Paste in a picture. Three text sizes, light or dark.

Find

Search finds any word in any note. Give notes a colour or a tag, and pin the ones you use most to the top.

Save things from the web

Select text on any page, right-click, and choose Save selection to Notepad. The note keeps a link back to the page.

Never lose a note

Deleted notes wait 30 days in the trash. Every note keeps its recent versions. A backup follows your Chrome profile to your other computers.

An open note called Weekend plans, with the formatting bar showing, a highlighted phrase, a tick-box list with two items ticked, and a picture.

Made to be picked up without instructions.

One button opens the formatting bar, and it stays open until you close it. Type - for a bullet or [] for a tick-box, no button needed.

It is built for anyone — the text can be made larger for tired eyes, everything works from the keyboard, and the whole panel meets the contrast guidelines for readability.

Private by design

  • Your notes stay on your device. There is no account, no sign-in and no server.
  • No analytics, no tracking, no adverts.
  • The one thing that leaves your computer is the backup, and it travels through Chrome’s own sync — Google’s, not ours — and only if you have Chrome sync turned on.
  • The extension cannot read the pages you visit. It only receives the text you choose to save by right-clicking.

Read the full privacy policy