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Nothing you type is uploaded — the note lives in the link itself.

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Free Shareable Note in a Link — No Account

How it works

Why the fragment matters

Everything after the # in a URL is the fragment, and browsers do not send it to the server — it exists only to tell the page which part of itself to show. That is what makes this private rather than merely convenient: the text is compressed with the browser's own deflate implementation, encoded as base64url, and kept after the hash, so this site's server never receives it and could not log it if it wanted to.

#1…
The leading 1 is a format version, so a link made today can still be recognised if the packing ever changes.
deflate-raw
The browser's built-in CompressionStream. Prose typically packs to about a third of its size, and repetitive text far smaller.
base64url
The URL-safe alphabet from RFC 4648 §5, so the fragment needs no percent-escaping and survives being pasted.
Markdown
Headings, lists, tables, quotes, code and task lists. The first heading becomes the page title.
~2 000 characters
A comfortable link length. The meter warns before a note grows long enough for a chat client to truncate it.

How to use it

How to share a note as a link

  1. 01

    Write your note

    Markdown on the left, live preview on the right. The address bar updates as you type.

  2. 02

    Watch the length

    The meter shows whether the link is short enough to paste anywhere, or getting risky.

  3. 03

    Copy the link

    Send it however you like. Whoever opens it sees the note, decoded in their own browser.

Where it earns its keep

Where a note-in-a-link earns its keep

  • Sending someone a formatted snippet without signing them up to anything.
  • A scratchpad you can bookmark, sync across devices, and keep out of any account.
  • Sharing a config, a checklist or a draft in a chat that mangles plain text.
  • Handing over notes that should not outlive the conversation — there is no copy to forget about.

Questions

Shareable notes, answered

Is my note really not stored anywhere?

It is not. The text lives in the URL fragment, which browsers never send to a server — you can confirm it in your network inspector. Nothing about the note reaches this site, so there is nothing here to store, leak or subpoena.

Is the link private?

No, and this matters: the note is readable by anyone who has the link. It is not encrypted, only compressed. Treat it like a note passed across a table — private from us, but not secret from whoever you send it to, or from anything that logs URLs along the way.

How long can a note be?

Comfortably a few thousand characters after compression, which is several hundred words. Past that, chat apps and mail clients start wrapping or truncating links, so the meter warns you before it becomes a problem. For anything longer, download the .md file instead.

What happens if the link gets cut in half?

You get an error saying the link is damaged, rather than a half-decoded note. A truncated fragment cannot be silently repaired, and showing you a partial note as though it were complete would be worse than saying so.