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Simple note sidebar which can be used to write a note, record thoughts, to-do list, meeting notes, etc.
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Note Sidebar is a lightweight and useful add-in designed for taking notes from the sidebar of your web browser. With this browser extension, you can customize the note paper according to your preferences, whether it is your favorite background color, squared graph paper, or lined paper. It serves as a secure notepad extension for writing notes in a minimalist design. Everything you type is automatically saved securely in your web browser. The Note Sidebar can be used for various purposes, such as creating a to-do list for tasks you plan to work on later in the day, jotting down any thoughts, taking notes on YouTube videos in the simplest way possible, or even recording meeting notes.
It is ideal for students, teachers, managers, IT experts, influencers, engineers, and business owners. Additionally, it is suitable for medical professionals who need to write therapy notes, urgent care doctor notes, and physical reports. You can retrieve your personal notes on all your synced web browsers and edit them at a later time without interrupting your work. What are you waiting for? Your thoughts deserve the best. Install the extension and start taking notes.
Browser extension features:
◆ Automatically Saving:
Instantly type your note and automatically save it on your local and synced settings.
◆ Infinity Text:
Write as much as you want without worrying about character limits, just like your personal journal.
◆ Font Style:
Customize the font color, font size, line height, and background paper.
◆ Text Format:
Choose between Plain Text or Rich Text format, supporting Bold, Italic, Underline, Hyperlink, and custom text background.
◆ Text To Speech:
Convert your text to speech and select your preferred voice for a personalized experience.
◆ Copy to Clipboard:
Easily copy text the complete text area in your clipboard with a single click button.
◆ Print:
Print your current note directly from the sidebar.
◆ Character Counter:
Keep track of the number of characters in your typed text.
◆ Context Menu Note Addition:
Quickly add notes using the right-click menu to copy text into your note sidebar.
◆ Toolbar Customization:
Hide buttons in the bottom toolbar to streamline your workspace.
◆ Note Locking:
Secure your note with your personal password
◆ Export Options:
Export your notebook text to a TXT file, perfect for importing into Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or Apple Pages.
◆ Shortcut:
Customizable shortcut key to open the Note Sidebar.
◆ Custom Toolbar Icon:
Select your preferred toolbar icon in either light or dark mode, adapting to your visual preferences.
◆ Accessibility:
Accessibility Ready with labels for the interactive elements.
◆ Support Dark Mode, which makes it comfortable for your eyes.
Project Information:
https://www.stefanvd.net/project/note-sidebar/browser-extension
Required Permissions:
◆ "contextMenus": This is to add the "Copy text to sidebar" menu item in the web browser context menu.
◆ "sidepanel": Allow the note to be visible in the side panel.
◆ "storage": Save settings locally and sync with your web browser account.
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Latest reviews
- (2025-06-20) David: Perfect. In the last 20 years, I think I have tried just about every alternative, but I shall stick with this and recommend it. It is particularly useful for making temporary notes about things to do next or "in a moment". Or things you will later move to your proper "Do" list, such as Todoist or Google Tasks. The only weak point is the video "explanation". It is better to just download it and try it out. You'll figure it out.
- (2025-05-15) Ceilidh Givan: I really want to like this extension. A sidebar to take notes in my browser is exactly what I need. But I'm running into issues with text disappearing. I made a bunch of notes on stuff I needed to follow up on today while I was working yesterday. Throughout the day. Next day when I started up my PC and opened Chrome they were all gone. I had a second tab just now, closed the side bar, when I opened it the second tab was gone. Made a test note and switched back and forth a few times and closed it and it seemed to stay, but when I pasted in the table I actually needed in that note and switched to the main tab, by the time I switched back everything in the second tab was just the test note. It's frustrating to say the least.
- (2025-05-13) Shepp: Good and simple sidebar, but this ad on the bottom is really annoying -,-
- (2025-05-08) Susanne Vejdemo: Like other users, I also lost a lot of work, about a day of notes from a conference when the note sidebar extension suddenly crashed (the extension just crashed, not the page) - it deleted everything apart from the first aroun 8000 characters that were apparently saved. Absolutely devastating, DO NOT USE THIS.
- (2025-04-17) Pablo Mujica: I wish I could leave negative stars as this extension resulted in a massive net loss. 7 hours of research for a project was deleted when I opened a new tab. I am in so much disbelief I can't even react with anger. This was critical information and time for an opportunity I can't get back and massive sacrifices where made towards this project.
- (2025-04-13) Emily Fuller: I really like this extension... until I made a horrible mistake today. I took a bunch of personal notes in it and highlighted it instead of using the copy past button and I pressed the wrong key on my Chromebook... everything was deleted and then I found out since I had just created it... there is no way to get it back.... UGHHHHH I still love this extension and will continue to use it, but can we please add an undo button... I wanna cry right now
- (2025-03-31) Dimitry YarskY: It would be great if the note was linked to the domain and opened automatically when the domain was opened. The link can be made by the tab name
- (2025-03-28) Gabriel Small: It actually works like a normal notepad. Instead of all the fakes I found in the "Chrome web store".
- (2025-03-10) Plan Todo: Simple and perfect. Doesnt need any permissions to run. Check out the options to add multiple notes and have more controls.
- (2025-03-02) T H: Perfect addon. Dunno why this doesnt have 5/5
- (2025-01-29) Yodi 27: The best I was able to find
- (2025-01-21) 王大王: A very useful tool that can store some frequently used information or be used as a temporary clipboard. A serious bug is that except for the first page, other created notes will not be saved and will disappear every time it is closed.(even i made the save button visible and saved it manually) I hope it can be improved.
- (2025-01-14) Hitmi Pulse: This is perfect for my work, but it has stopped saving notes after 62 notes. I am stuck at note 63 not being saved, whenever I make a note, it starts as note 63, and it is not saving.
- (2025-01-02) Jeff Axelrod: I was assuming/hoping this would provide a page- or site-specific context for individual notes. Even better if it would automatically open the sidebar when visiting the page in the future. One global note isn't useful for my needs.
- (2024-12-23) Marcus Omar: Good, simple, very stable. At the instant and direct.
- (2024-12-20) Zeyad Eldeeb: Great and to-the-point extension! Just what most people need. However, sometimes, unexpectedly, it just don't save the last modifications, and just reclosing and opening the sidebar back, everything is gone!
- (2024-12-20) Zeyad Eldeeb: Great and to-the-point extension! Just what most people need. However, sometimes, unexpectedly, it just don't save the last modifications, and just reclosing and opening the sidebar back, everything is gone!
- (2024-11-27) Atanas Angjushev: Life savior. It works as intended.
- (2024-11-19) Sedat Erkal: Hi Stefan, Thank you for the extension! I used to have "Eloquent" for side note-taking but as it seems that Google has changed its policies for extensions and now many extensions have the label "This extension may soon no longer be supported ..." and "Eloquent" was one of them, so that I was in search of an alternative and came across to your extension. I would like to ask if you are eager to implement Markdown support (specifically node or list form) for the extension that we can copy the notes directly to apps like Logseq (which I extensively use), Obsidian, etc.
- (2024-10-16) Oleg Ustymchuk: First of all, cool extension, very useful, thank you! I have a suggestion regarding "Copy text to the sidebar" in the context menu. Could you please add a shortcut to this? It would be very helpful to quickly add more info to the sidebar, without moving the mouse. Appreciate you work!
- (2024-10-16) Omri Peri: Seems great! I've used it with Chrome and it seems great, but while working with Arc it's not really working unfortunately, there's any resolution we can find for that? Can be really helpful. Thanks! Omri.
- (2024-10-08) Jessica Chandler: This is exactly what I was looking for. A side panel notes section that will stay open on all tabs and it won't close if I close the tab I'm on. A super bonus-- I can paste anything into the notepad and there is a read-aloud option. It's a simple extension but so effective for productivity.
- (2024-10-07) Mohamed Anan: Does not always save notes, I lost a lot of important things, you can stop auto save if it's updating like this and add manually save button at least!
- (2024-09-28) oLabs Asia: Simple yet effective
- (2024-09-15) Sarath Erapaneni: Thanks. But, is there a way I can have a desired title for the tabs?
- (2024-09-03) Dustin Moore: I would add 5 stars but for some reason ,I dont have the down arrow option to add additional notes?
- (2024-09-02) Ramesh Bawri: Fabulous! The BEST in the note-taking category, especially as notes can be copied directly from the context menu and it's available for the major browsers. So, folks, look no further. And Thank you, Stefan.
- (2024-09-02) Long Hoàng: Good
- (2024-08-27) widya batin: Very Crisp App
- (2024-08-25) castle shin: It's a very neat way to compromise without disrupting Chrome's browsing style. However, I wish I could sync this note to a cloud service like Google Drive in real time, so I could access it on my mobile device as well. Thank you for your hard work.
- (2024-07-25) Uğur Can Kuru: with the latest update, I click to open this app and my web browser closes completely...... I had a lot of important notes, now I can't access them and there is a possibility that they may have been deleted..... It really sucks.
- (2024-07-08) My Trade Road (Traderoadmap): I really like this Note Sidebar extension, really easy to use and looks simple but elegant. But I hope the developer can make some improvement on multiple notes management feature. May be you can refer to Vivaldi sidebar notes for inspiration to improve.
- (2024-07-07) Vittorio: Great extension, it should be already installed as a standard in browsers. Free, simple and complete, with smart options and no frills. Great job! I hope the developer won't close the project for too few donations.
- (2024-07-01) 依米: A limited option for real needs, I wish he'd add basic text editing features - colors, bolding, etc.
- (2024-06-07) Ming Minh: Easy to use. But I have problems with lag, turning the app on and off very slowly and sometimes automatically backing up previous content without saving new content.
- (2024-06-01) Steve Davis: This is a brilliant extension that does exactly what it promises. I am also very impressed with the level of support provided by the developer. I had a problem where the sidebar appeared on the left rather than the right which was uncomfortable for me. I asked Stefan about this and he pointed me to a Chrome setting that I didn't even know existed, This was within an hour and on a Saturday morning. Thank you for that Stefan. I intend to look at the rest of your work and see if there is anything else I can make use of. Keep up the good work.
- (2024-06-01) PIOTR TROJANOWSKI: -edit- note sidebar is simple and helpful, im satisified ♥
- (2024-05-30) Alvaro Riquelme Godoy: Simple, Elegant and Functional. Note: It would be great to rename note titles in tabs.
- (2024-05-25) Danilo Santos: Great Application, this is very user friendly and easy to use.
- (2024-05-09) cyber: found exactly what i was looking for
- (2024-05-09) Andrea: Brilliant Exactly what I was looking for
- (2024-05-09) Andrea: Brilliant Exactly what I was looking for
- (2024-05-09) s oz: Easy to use, minimalistic, its perfect
- (2024-05-07) Wayne Donovan: Does not always save my updates when I edit my notes. After pasting into notes, you appear to have to type some text manually to trigger it to save
- (2024-05-06) Pyccturtle: very nice
- (2024-05-05) Wenhao: the best notepad ever in chrome web store
- (2024-05-03) Bayek: Perfect.
- (2024-04-23) Ajay kumar: Excellent extension. Simple but helping me in many ways
- (2024-04-15) Yen Meng Foong: All good, but wondering if the developers can let the users adjust the minimum width of the sidebar more than its current limit.
- (2024-04-09) Krzysztof Milewski: App ok.
Statistics
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30,000
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Rating
4.3902 (82 votes)
Last update / version
2025-06-19 / 1.0.27
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