Google Gears developer Aaron Boodman put together a simple offline/online web-based notepad application called GearPad. Sign up for a free account at GearPad, which is simply a big text box for ...

XML Notepad 2007 is themed around the same kind of just-the-text-ma'am simplicity of Windows' Notepad, but does add relevant features for markup language hacking.

If you ever need a quick scratchpad to just write, not save what you write, but just write, you can quickly turn your web browser into an ultra-basic notepad with a single line of HTML. This ...

Don’t worry, it’s beyond simple to use. This notepad trick works because of HTML’s “contenteditable” attribute that can turn any part of a web page into an interactive area for editing text.