Talk to one person, and leave nothing behind.

Notes is a small Chrome extension that looks like a notepad. No accounts, no servers in between, nothing saved once you close it.

Add to Chrome Free. Takes about a minute to set up.

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Two people, one shared word. That's the whole setup — no signing in on either side.

How it works

Pick a word only the two of you know

Something ordinary works best — a place, a joke, anything you can say out loud on a call or send in a text.

You both open Notes and type it in

The extension finds the other copy of itself that entered the same word, and connects your two browsers directly.

Write back and forth

Messages travel straight between your machines. There's no inbox, no thread to scroll back through later — just what's on the page right now.

What else it does

Drop in a background

Drag an image, GIF, or short video into the note, and it shows up for the other person too — a small way to make a shared space feel like it's yours.

A room that hides itself

Turn on the blur, and the moment your cursor leaves the window, the page darkens along with the text — so a glance at your screen from across the room shows nothing.

What it isn't

Not a messaging app

There's no contact list, no read receipts, no notifications. It's closer to passing a note than sending a message.

Not always-on

Both people need the window open at the same time. Close it, and the conversation ends there — nothing arrives late.

Not tied to who you are

Each session gets a short, made-up name, generated fresh every time. There's no profile behind it.

Not stored, by us or anyone

We don't run a server that sees your messages, so there's nothing on our end to lose, leak, or hand over.

Nothing to sign up for. Nothing to remember to delete.

Add to Chrome — it's free

How a conversation actually works

When you open Notes and enter a folder name, the extension uses that name to find another copy of Notes that entered the same one — using PeerJS, an open-source library built on WebRTC. Once the two of you are connected, everything you write travels directly between your two computers.

We use PeerJS's free public signaling service only to make that initial introduction — the digital equivalent of two people finding each other's phone number. That service sees the folder name and a temporary, randomly generated connection ID. It never sees a single word either of you writes.

What we store

Nothing. There's no database behind Notes, because there's no server behind Notes. We can't hand over your messages if we're ever asked, because we never had them.

Inside the extension itself, nothing is written to your browser's storage either — no localStorage, no cookies, no history file. Everything, including any background you drop in, lives in memory for as long as the window is open, and disappears the moment it closes.

What the other person sees

Only what you type, and any background you drop in. Notes shows a short, randomly generated name (something like "Sneaky Crane") above each message so a conversation involving more than two people stays readable — it isn't tied to your identity, your device, or anything else, and it changes every time you open a new session.

A folder name is not a password. Anyone who has it can join, so treat it the way you'd treat a note passed by hand: share it only with the person you mean to talk to.

The one honest limit

Because there's no server holding your place, both people need Notes open at the same time for a message to arrive. If you close the window, the connection ends there — nothing queues up behind it, and nothing is delivered late.

This is a direct trade for the privacy above: the same absence of a server that means we never see your messages also means nothing can hold them for you while you're away.