Tab Pad

Your daily notepad, one page per day, in every new tab. Everything stays on your device.

Every new tab is today's page. Tab Pad replaces your new tab with a simple daily notepad. Open a tab, start typing — no clicks, no loading, no account. Yesterday is one scroll away, and every day you've ever written lives on one continuous timeline. Future days are already there, waiting for plans. WRITE WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT • The cursor is ready the moment the tab opens — just type • Every keystroke saves instantly to your device • Markdown as you type: headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, lists, quotes, dividers, code • Checkboxes you can tick off on any day ([] + space makes one) • Cmd/Ctrl+click opens links in a new tab YOUR WHOLE HISTORY, ONE SCROLL • Continuous timeline — scroll up into coming days, down through everything you've written • Mini calendar with dots on noted days; jump anywhere with one click • ⌘K jumps by natural language: "friday", "nov 12", "two weeks ago", "next monday" FOCUS MODE & PRIVACY MODE • Focus: one click expands the day you're working on to fill the screen — no other days, no panels • Privacy: one click scrambles every note into unreadable text — for screen sharing and streaming. Click again to restore. MAKE IT YOURS • A persistent scratchpad panel, and a quiet per-day margin for side notes • Light, dark, or system theme; six accent colors; serif, sans, or monospace YOUR DATA IS YOURS • 100% local — notes never leave your computer; no account, no server, no tracking, no analytics, no network requests • Zero permissions requested • Optional notes folder: your days live as plain Markdown (.md) files in a folder you choose — works with Obsidian, git, iCloud/Dropbox, any text tooling • Built-in safety net: before Tab Pad ever overwrites or erases file content it didn't write, the previous version is saved to a trash folder inside your notes folder • One-click backup — export everything as a single file (and a backup downloads automatically before "erase all") AI-AGENT READY • Agents can read and write the same markdown files; their edits appear in your open tab within seconds • A generated AGENTS.md in your folder tells any agent exactly how to behave (append, sign your edits, never clobber the human) • One-click connect prompt in settings wires up Claude Code or any coding agent Tab Pad is for people who think in days: a running log, meeting scraps, todos, ideas — whatever today needs to hold.