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Text Scratchpad

Online notepad that saves in your browser, with tools to change case, sort, remove duplicates, find and replace, and clean up text.

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100% client-side

Runs in your browser. Your data never leaves this device.

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The Guide

About Text Scratchpad

/01 A scratchpad for knocking text into shape

Somewhere to dump text and clean it up: change case, sort lines, strip duplicates, trim whitespace and tidy up the formatting that survived a copy and paste. The sort of small, annoying jobs that otherwise mean opening a code editor or writing a throwaway script.

Paste in, apply the operations you need, copy back out.

/02 Typical cleanup jobs

Lists copied out of spreadsheets, emails or PDFs arrive with inconsistent capitalisation, trailing spaces, blank lines and duplicate entries. Converting a column of names to title case, sorting a list alphabetically, or removing repeated rows takes seconds here.

Because the operations are applied in the order you choose, you can chain them — trim, then deduplicate, then sort — without saving anything in between.

/03 An online notepad that stays on your device

Sometimes you just need somewhere to paste text, jot a note or hold a list while you work. This online notepad opens instantly with no account, and what you type is saved in your browser's storage on this device, so it is still there if you close the tab and come back later. Nothing is sent to a server.

That also means it is private to this browser. Your notes will not appear on your phone or another computer, and clearing your browser data clears them too, so download anything important as a text file when you are done.

/04 Text tools built into the notepad

The notepad doubles as a text cleanup kit. Change case to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case or Sentence case. Sort lines alphabetically or by length, reverse or shuffle them, and remove duplicate or empty lines. Trim stray spaces, join lines together, or wrap text at 80 or 120 characters.

Find and replace works with plain text or regular expressions. The extract tools pull every email address, URL or number out of a messy block of text into a clean list, which is ideal for tidying up copied spreadsheets, logs and web pages. Add or remove line numbers, and encode or decode URLs, all without leaving the page.

FAQ

Questions about Text Scratchpad.

What text operations are available?
Case conversion, line sorting, duplicate removal, whitespace trimming and general cleanup of pasted text — the common transformations, applied in whatever order you run them.
Is this a Markdown editor?
It is a plain-text scratchpad rather than a formatting editor. If you want live preview, footnotes and tables, use the Text Editor instead.
Does it keep my text after I close the tab?
No. It is a scratchpad — copy anything you want to keep before you leave the page.
Does this online notepad save my notes?
Yes, in your browser's local storage on this device, so your text survives closing the tab. It does not sync to other devices, and clearing your browser data removes it, so download important notes as a file.
How do I remove duplicate lines from a list?
Paste the list into the notepad and use Remove Duplicates. Combine it with Trim Lines and Remove Empty Lines first so that lines differing only by spaces count as duplicates.
How do I extract email addresses from text?
Paste the text and choose Extract Emails. Every address found is pulled out into a clean list, one per line, ready to copy. Extract URLs and Extract Numbers work the same way.
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