Holdpad – Quick Notes & Notepad for Any Page

Take quick notes in a side panel on any page. Save selected text and links, search it all. Private, offline, no sign-up.

Holdpad is a private quick notes panel that opens beside any web page. Jot down a thought, save highlighted text from a website, or keep a link for later — without switching tabs, without an account, and without your notes ever leaving your computer. Your notes stay on your device. No sign-up, no cloud, no ads, no tracking. WHY PEOPLE TRUST HOLDPAD • Notes are stored only on your computer, in Chrome's local storage. Nothing is uploaded. • No network access at all: the extension is built so it cannot connect to the internet, so it cannot send your notes anywhere. • No site access at install. Holdpad reads a page only when you click its icon or choose "Save selection to Holdpad". • Nothing is lost by accident: every clear has Undo, and cleared notes wait in Trash for 30 days. • Your notes are yours to take: export a full backup at any time, or one Markdown file for Obsidian, Notion, a document or an email. • A public privacy policy lists every permission and why it is needed: holdpad.vercel.app/privacy.html WHAT YOU CAN DO • Quick notes on any page — press Alt+Shift+N or click the toolbar icon, type, then Ctrl/Cmd+Enter. • Save highlighted text from any website — select, right-click, "Save selection to Holdpad". Links, bold, lists and code blocks are kept, with the page it came from. Like a small web clipper. • Save links and whole pages from the right-click menu, with their titles. • A real notepad — headings, bullet and numbered lists, checklists, quotes, links and code blocks, with Markdown shortcuts as you type. • Find anything fast — Ctrl/Cmd+K searches every note, source page and tag, with matches highlighted. • Pin what matters, tag to group, and clear the rest when a task is done. • List view to scan, card view to read. • Works on every page, including Chrome's own pages, where it opens as a popup. • Light, dark or system theme, six colour palettes, and sans, serif or mono text. • In 8 languages: English, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Indonesian and Japanese. A SCRATCHPAD FOR THE TASK IN FRONT OF YOU Holdpad is for the things you need right now, not a second brain to organise: the phone number from a support chat, three quotes for an essay, the error message you are about to look up, a shopping list for later. Think of it as digital sticky notes that sit beside the page, stay searchable, and clear away cleanly. Students collecting quotes, researchers comparing sources, developers keeping commands and error messages, shoppers comparing prices, writers catching ideas. HOW TO START 1. Pin Holdpad to your toolbar (puzzle-piece icon → pin). 2. On any page, click the icon or press Alt+Shift+N. 3. Type a note and press Ctrl/Cmd+Enter — or select text, right-click, and choose "Save selection to Holdpad". Free. Works offline. Questions or ideas: use the support email on this listing, or visit holdpad.vercel.app.