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Simple Notepad

by boxhead

v2.0.0 Updated Sep 3, 2025 564KiB
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Description

What could be more simple than wanting to create a note whilst browsing the web? Well Simple Notepad allows you to do just that! In fact Simple Notepad lets you create as many notes as you want. Do you use more than one installation of Chrome? Then your notes will sync across your different installations using your bookmarks so you'll never have to worry about keeping your notes in sync manually, or wonder what the note said on your other machine, it just happens! Ok so enough of the waffle here is a feature list: -- Create multiple notes -- Notes backed up to your Google bookmarks (this can be turned on/off in the Simple Notepad options) -- Notes synced across Chrome installations (requires Bookmark Syncing) -- Synchronizing on a schedule and manually force a synchronization. -- It will remember where you were editing the note and keep the cursor position and even the selection. -- Resize the note window to whatever size you like. -- Copy selected text to a note using a right click menu. -- Copy a link to a note using a right click menu -- Copy the page title and URL to a note using a right click menu -- Can choose between the classic Simple Notepad layout and an Opera Notes style layout
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Reviews (32 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-11
Kei Soh

There is no Trash Button. Notes accidentally deleted will never be recovered. Even temporally notes, the user might need to keep the material for later reference. User at risk of disappointments and risk of notes accidentally deleted and not recovered.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-17
Theo Doro

Sync does not work. Deletes new notes and does not update regularly.

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-19
Andreas Chatzopoulos

Sync doesn't work. Literally the only thing I wanted it for.

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-14
Oohdearu

I gave it one star because it DID change my bookmarks it added this thing called "Other Bookmarks" and I don't know how to get rid of it.(If you got this extension and know how to get rid of it please tell me.) I tried installing it but was still there. So I installed it again to write a 1 star (because there was no 0 star) review. I hop this helps.

★☆☆☆☆2020-03-07
Mark Edwards

does not sync. dpm't waste time, or get you hopes up for a way to send a simple note that you can find from another machine. developers aer just getting stupider over time. This one must have created the app the democrats used to count votes.......

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-07
John Stokes

As with other people, when I reinstalled Chrome it lost all my notes....useless

★☆☆☆☆2017-06-06
James Ma

Don;t install it or you will have problem to sync your chrome bookmark with multiple device. It use the bookmark to store the note, and it will generate huge bookmark after using for sometimes. Due to the poor change in google which does not allow force sync by user, it takes me over 3 months still cannot clear those dummy bookmark in my chrome account. And it takes very very very long time to sync my data now. If you are not using chrome, then go ahead to use it.

★☆☆☆☆2017-05-11
Zee

I was just looking over my notes and all of them are gone. I mean, all of them. Everything I wrote down i completely gone. Thankfully I saved half of it in another note app, but I still had a lot of notes on there that I needed. This has happened twice now. Wouldn't reccomend this.

★☆☆☆☆2017-03-30
Romulo Eduardo

Used to work perfectly, but today I lost ALL MY NOTES ! There is just some icons and no notes AT ALL. NOT RECOMEND

★☆☆☆☆2017-02-26
Savannah Sleezer

I will go to add something to my notes to find that it deleted the last thing or two that I wrote! Difficult to do research when I can't save my notes!

★☆☆☆☆2016-03-19
Delta Grogan

Horrible. I put stuff I want to save for later in there.. 10 seconds later.. wiped out..gone Like wtf

★☆☆☆☆2016-02-01
Duffy Tweedy

Synchronizing has wiped out all my notes. Twice. It was great while it worked, but I won't give it a chance for that third strike.

★☆☆☆☆2015-07-23
Senthil K

cant open whenever its needed..it takes more thna a minute to open..

★☆☆☆☆2015-06-08
Melissa Perkey

hate this. cant open calculator at same time, so basically doing my budget I have to either shrink window or hop between windows

★☆☆☆☆2014-03-27
Kytonya Glenn

I want to delete it

★☆☆☆☆2013-10-31
David H.

where do the notes go??? not saving in my bookmarks...

★☆☆☆☆2013-05-01
Darren Leung

More than once I have put notes in, then later on gone to another computer with chrome and it "updated" the note with OLD data, wiping out everything I had. Thanks for nothing.

★★☆☆☆2021-10-28
Pat MySecret

System doesn't trust it, and it's simplistic, so I'm removing it.

★★☆☆☆2019-05-28
Thanawat Charoenwibool

I gave it just 2 stars because... 1. I don't like its's auto-open pane, it is a very noisy feaure. 2. It has no dark theme.Actuually it comes without any visual theme. 3. It has just few option in customization. - no visual theme - no option to change font and/or font style

★★☆☆☆2016-08-28
Dafydd Qua

red lines personal names

★★☆☆☆2015-10-29
Shamshir Sheikh

Sync is not good as when I synced still my notes were not saved when I clicked on - button. please save this automatically on Google account as I really need to put important notes online. also keep an warning option before deleting any note so we will aware and will not delete it.

★★☆☆☆2015-05-21
Matthew Bugna

Doesn't save notes and doesn't sync between computers with same Chrome Login. Removing as I've lost all my notes after a reboot.

★★☆☆☆2014-03-07
Christopher Stefancik

It opens and covers up what I'm trying to write "notes" about. Can't "break" it out of the browser window.

★★★☆☆2020-08-13
UNIK DEX

very good but 2 thing is missing . first i cant write mannualy note heading its takes form note second one is very danger . when i click on minus icon note is delete parmanenet how can undo. if accedently click on delete button. plz fix or befor delete ting asking for are you sure you want to delete add this popup

★★★☆☆2018-11-12
Michel

used to love it, it is very practical but after I organized my bookmark I lost all what I was save for long while

★★★☆☆2017-05-26
Jose Fraile

Problem: remove button not at the right place. It's extremely easy to delete by mistake.

★★★☆☆2016-05-11
Denis Krasko

Wanna 5 stars? Just fix 2 simple issues: 1. Window resize doesn't works in both ways - neither via options nor with the mouse cursor 2. It doesn't remember cursor positioning in the text, always shows it at the bottom of the note.

★★★☆☆2014-10-28
Lee Schwartz

This feature does not work: "It will remember where you were editing the note and keep the cursor position and even the selection." Everytime I open Simple Notepad, it shows the bottom of the note, regardless of where I was last editing the note. Am I doing something wrong?

★★★☆☆2014-06-09
Grégoire Paqueron

Just annoying that you force to have a "Simple Notepad" in our favorites.

★★★☆☆2014-02-22
VFC Calado

don't sync

★★★☆☆2013-10-02
Максим Маковчик

Good idea, but having problems with syncronisation.

★★★☆☆2012-01-16
a a

don't like the fact that this extensiton can "access all my bookmarks", might remove it from my pc.

Permissions (1)

Permissions

bookmarks Can read and modify your bookmarks

Details

Version 2.0.0
Updated Sep 3, 2025
Size 564KiB
First Seen Mar 29, 2026