How to use Notepad

1. Enter text in the text box.
2. Then click the copy and share url button.
3. Share your text anywhere.

Use Cases for Notepad

Online Notepad

Txtshare can be used as an online notepad for you to keep track of things throughout the day without downloading an app or installing software. This makes it easy to share text online for anyone to see.

Take Notes

Take notes in this online notepad, then copy and share the url anywhere on the web. This allows users to keep track of things important to them in a free and easy way.

Create Lists

Create a list of your favorite things or items you're trying to keep track of. Then share throughout other platforms via an uneditable, unique url that anyone can view.

Remove Formatting

Txtshare is a plain text editor and can be used to remove formatting fom copied text from a website. Simply copy and paste your text into the text box to remove any unwanted formating.

What is a Notepad?

A notepad, specifically an online notepad, is a tool that let's users write text without the need to download an app or intall software. Txtshare is a web-based online notepad where users can create, edit, and save notes directly in the browser. These online notes are useful because they can be taken quickly and easily then shared across the web, through email or within apps. There are many kinds of notepads like TXT for Chrome OS, TextEdit for MacOS and Microsoft Notepad online but those need to be downloaded. Txtshare is a quick notepad used to take notes and then share text online through a unique and uneditable url. This means users can view your notepad through this url but can't edit any of the notes, memo's or lists. Overall, online notepads are useful to share txt and convenient for quick text entry, lists and memo's that can be accessed from any device, browser or platform.

History of Notepads

There are three main notepads, one for each operating system, which are Microsoft Notepad, TextEdit for macOS, and TXT for Chrome OS. Each has a long history of providing a simple and clean interface for users to store notes, text, and to save and share txt. However, they're all software notepads which means they can't be accessed via the web. Microsoft Notepad was initially release all the way back on 1985 in the launch of Windows 1.0. With each subsequent release of Windows software like Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11, Microsoft added new features but it's always been a very simple piece of software. TextEdit for macOS was released in 1999 with the release of OS X. The key difference vs Microsoft Notepad was the support for plain text and rich text. It was integrated with more Apple products like iCloud over the years during software updates via OS X 10.0, OS X 10.4, OS X 10.7 and macOS Big Sur. TXT for Chrome OS is a newer notepad release in 2011 as part of Chrome OS. The main goal of this notepad was to be super lightweight and hand simple text editing. Over time, it gained support for Google Drive and is still very simple today. While all three of these notepads offer a relatively simple interface, they are limited to their respective operating systems and are software that have to be downloaded. They're not accessible via the web or cross platform.

Benefits of Online Notepads

While software notepads are easy to use, online notepads offer several advantages for users like accessibility on any device or browser, no need to download software to your device and the ability to easy share txt via a unique url. Having the ability to keep notes within a text document, then accessing that text document on a different device or browser is a key benefit of an online notepad. Also, downloading software to your device is inherently limiting because the software cannot be used on any other device. Finally, in order to share text online, a user can simple send or post the URL to their text document, instead of sharing a file. Any one with the URL can see your notes and provide feedback or share elsewhere.