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Quick Scratchpad
Quick Scratchpad: Capture text instantly, skip the AI drama.
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 🙂
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?
About Quick Scratchpad on Product Hunt
“Quick Scratchpad: Capture text instantly, skip the AI drama.”
Quick Scratchpad was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #146 on the daily leaderboard. 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 🙂
On the analytics side, Quick Scratchpad competes within Chrome Extensions, Notes, Privacy and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 586.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Quick Scratchpad performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Quick Scratchpad?
Quick Scratchpad was hunted by Pranab Dey. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Quick Scratchpad including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Pranab Dey
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?