Notepans
🗂️ Pans, subpans & tabs
Notebooks inside notebooks, with tabs along the top. Colours, emoji, 🏷 labels and comments keep everything easy to find. Sort, group, pin, archive and drag to arrange.
A free, private online notepad that lives in your browser
Notepans is a calm place to write. Organise notes in pans (notebooks) and tabs, catch quick ideas on a sticky-note wall, set reminders and alarms, focus with a Pomodoro timer, and share encrypted notes that delete themselves. No sign-up. No ads. No tracking.
🗒️ Sticky-note wall
Jot short ideas with the ⚡ quick bar, colour them, select many at once, and move them into a pan when they grow up.
⏱️ Focus & Reminders
Pomodoro sessions, quick timers, alarms and reminders with desktop notifications — every alert links straight back to its note.
🔐 Encrypted sharing
Publish a note as an end-to-end encrypted link that disappears after one read or after the time you choose.
📊 Insights
Words written, activity over two weeks, your streak and your biggest pans — plus bulk colouring and labelling.
🏠 A fresh Home pad
Click the logo for a clean page to paste or think. The previous Home note is kept in the Archive automatically.
♻️ Recovery
Archive, Recycle bin and a browser-style History of everything you opened.
⚡ Fast and private
Everything runs in your browser. Notes never leave your device unless you publish them, and published copies are encrypted before they are sent.
Questions
Is Notepans free?
Yes. Notepans is free to use, with no sign-up, no account and no ads.
Where are my notes stored?
In your own web browser (IndexedDB on your device). Notepans does not store your notes on a server. Clearing your browser data clears them too, so download a backup from Settings now and then.
Can I share a note?
Yes. Publish creates an encrypted copy (AES-256-GCM, encrypted in your browser) with a link. The key is after the # in the link and never reaches the server. The copy deletes itself after one read or after the time you choose — at most one year.
Does Notepans work offline?
Once the page is open, writing, sticky notes, reminders and timers work in your browser. Publishing a note needs a connection.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Notepans runs in any modern browser on desktop, tablet and phone.
Can I export my notes?
Yes — as a JSON backup, Markdown or plain text from Settings, and any single note or the Home pad as TXT, Markdown, HTML, RTF (opens in Word), JSON or CSV.