How It Works

Smart Scratchpad is a distraction-free text area that saves everything you type automatically. Your notes survive page refreshes and browser restarts because they are stored in your browser's localStorage. Nothing is ever sent to a server.

Key Features

• Auto-save on every keystroke — you never lose a character.
• Plain text only — paste rich text from Word, Google Docs, or any website and all formatting is automatically stripped, leaving clean plain text.
• Word & character count — updated in real time.
• Copy All — copies the full contents to your clipboard in one click.
• Full-screen mode — hides everything else for focused writing or reading.

Stripping Rich-Text Formatting

When you paste content from a word processor, email client, or webpage, browsers usually carry rich-text metadata (fonts, colours, bold/italic, HTML tags) along with the visible characters. Because this scratchpad is a plain <textarea>, the browser discards all that metadata on paste and only keeps the raw characters — making it an instant "format stripper."

Privacy

All text is stored exclusively in localStorage on your own device. No network requests are made. Clearing your browser's site data will erase the saved content.