The text is saved every time you close or refresh the Notepad page, in the browser's local cache. When you reopen the Notepad page, the text will reapear. This browser local cache can be ereased if you clear your browser's history.
The text is saved/backuped to the hard drive when you press the Save button or select File > Save menu.
How to load the text
There are 2 ways to load the text:
To load the text from the browser's cache just reload the page.
To open the saved text from the hard drive file, press the Open button or select File > Open menu, and select the text file that you saved.
Configuration parameters
Important information
If the previous session's text is missing:
If text exists, select and copy it with Ctrl+C and paste it with Ctrl+V in the Notepad page:
Copy text from updated text file that was generated by Auto save operation to the Download folder (if exist).
Check if you are looking at the same computer that you used previously.
Enable browser cookies and history.
Do not use browser's private/incognito mode. The text local storage will be deleted by the browser when you close the browser's window.
Try to add/remove the www from the URL in the browser's address bar.
The Notepad's text will not be saved with incognito/private mode browsing !!!
The saved Notpad's text might be deleted when you delete your browsing history/cache or run disk cleaning application (E.g. Windows Disk cleanup / CCleaner) !!!
If file Open button does not work, please reload the page and try again.
Use Notepad with updated browser version. If you use Internet Explorer, copy your text to a modern browser (e.g Chrome/Edge/Firefox).
The notepad's text is auto saved to the browser's local cache (not safe).
The notepad's text can be auto saved (backup) to the hard drive, according to the auto save duration in View > Preferences menu.
You can backup the Notepad's text to the hard drive, using the Save button or menu File > Save.
For Mac use ⌘ Command instead of Ctrl key.
To open saved file, look for the file in the Downloads folder.
If backgound lines do not scroll, hide the lines: uncheck menu View > Preferences > Text lines
If Text lines are not visible, please try to use Chrome browser.
If the spell check is not working, try to enable it in your browser's Settings>Languages section. If not defined, you can also try to set English (United States) in your browser's language setting.
To delete all the text, select all the text with Ctrl+A or menu Edit > Select All and press the Delete button.
