Quick Scratchpad
Quick Scratchpad: Capture text instantly, skip the AI drama.
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Pranab Dey

Quick Scratchpad - Quick Scratchpad: Capture text instantly, skip the AI drama.

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Quick Scratchpad is your instant brain‑dump pad. No bloated AI tools, no tab‑hopping circus. Just highlight → right‑click → save. Boom, it’s in your pad with source + timestamp. Format on the fly (bold, italic, links, strikethrough) with a tiny floating toolbar. Fast, minimal, private. Because sometimes you just need speed, not another ‘smart’ tool pretending to think for you. Quick Scratchpad - because your ideas deserve instant capture, not a waiting room in someone else’s oversized AI tool 🙂

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Pranab Dey
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Hey everyone 👋

I built Quick Scratchpad out of frustration.

Almost every note app I tried felt… too heavy for something so simple.

All I wanted was: 👉 capture a thought before it disappears

But instead, I had to:

  • open a full app

  • wait for it to load

  • distract myself before even writing

And most of the time… the idea was already gone.

So I decided to build something for myself means something that feels instant and stays out of your way.

That’s how Quick Scratchpad started.

✨ A minimal, privacy‑first scratchpad that:

  • opens in a second

  • lets you write without friction

  • saves useful text from any webpage in one click

  • keeps everything local (no accounts, no tracking)

It’s designed for one purpose:
think → capture → move on

No clutter. No complexity. Just speed.

This isn’t a big, complex product. It’s a small tool that solves a very real, everyday problem.

And honestly, it’s something I now use every day.

Would love your feedback 🙌
👉 What would make this even more useful for you?