Write freely, own everything.
A minimal, distraction-free note-taking app that lives entirely in your browser.
- ⚡ Instant Tab Interface: Notes open as browser-style tabs in a top bar — switch, create, and delete without ever leaving the editor.
- 🧠 Auto-Generated Titles: Note titles are derived automatically from the first line of your content and update in real time as you type.
- 💾 localStorage Persistence: All notes are saved directly to your browser's local storage — no accounts, no sync, no servers.
- 🔄 Session Restore: The last active note is remembered across page refreshes so you always pick up exactly where you left off.
- 🗑️ Safe Deletion: Delete individual notes via a hover-revealed button, or wipe everything from the settings panel with a mandatory confirmation step.
- 🌟 Premium Minimal UI: Dark neutral interface with a neon green accent, smooth hover states, and a distraction-free writing experience.
- 🔗 Serverless Sharing: Share any note as a self-contained link — the note is compressed and encoded entirely in the URL fragment, so it never touches a server.
- Framework: Next.js 16 (App Router)
- Runtime & View Library: React 19
- Styling: Tailwind CSS v4 with CSS-level custom theme variables
- Type Safety: TypeScript
- Icons: Lucide React
- Fonts: Inter
datnotes was inspired by notes.app — a beautifully simple note-taking site whose domain eventually expired and disappeared. It proved that a note app doesn't need accounts, cloud sync, or a backend to be genuinely useful. datnotes carries that spirit forward: fast, local, and yours.
- datnotes has no backend, no database, no API, and no authentication. The entire application runs in your browser.
- Your notes never leave your device. Nothing is transmitted, logged, or stored anywhere other than your own browser's local storage.
- Shared notes travel inside the URL fragment (
/s#…). Fragments are never sent in HTTP requests, so note content never appears in any server access log — not even Vercel's or a CDN's. - A shared link is readable by anyone who receives it. This is intentional and stated clearly in the share dialog. There is no password, no expiry, and no revocation — a shared link is a handout.
- Shared note pages are marked
noindexso they don't appear in search engine results.
- datnotes collects absolutely nothing about you. No analytics, no telemetry, no cookies, no tracking of any kind.
- The only data stored is the notes you write yourself, kept locally in your browser's
localStorage. This includes:- Note content
- Creation and last-updated timestamps
- Your last active note
Made with love for love. 💚
Write freely, own everything.