Scratchpad

Scratchpad is a lightweight Chrome extension that provides a seamless plain-text notepad experience with essential features tailored for efficient note-taking. It offers auto-saving functionality that saves your changes about 2 seconds after the last edit, ensuring your notes are never lost — even if you close the popup window. The extension supports synchronization, enabling you to access your notes across devices, though it does not support concurrent editing.

Customization options let you select from various themes and adjust text size for a comfortable writing environment. Handy keyboard shortcuts allow you to create section headings, insert date and time stamps, save notes to disk, and open notes in separate tabs. Scratchpad includes an unsaved changes indicator via a red dot on the toolbar icon, keeping you informed about save status. With a storage size of up to 7,000 bytes, it supports extensive note-taking in Latin-based alphabets and offers export and sharing capabilities for mobile syncing or collaboration via read-only links. The extension's icon is sourced from the public domain, emphasizing its clean and user-friendly design.