Mini-Notes
Mini-Notes

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About User Accounts Privacy Usage Policy Import/Export Installing Cost Tech Support Copyright Mini-Notes is a simple web application for keeping notes. It was written and is maintained by Michael Chermside, with significant use of Claude Code. Anyone may make an account by providing an email and a password. We do not currently verify or enforce that it is a valid email, but if we need to contact a user or start providing password resets, they won't work if that field isn't an email you have access to.

Mini-notes does not keep a record of your password, only a hash used to verify it. There is currently no way to reset your password — see the "Tech Support" section if needed.

Mini-notes collects very little information about our users. We collect the email used to create an account, and we collect the content of your notes. We intend to deal with all of this information responsibly. But it is important to note that Mini-notes does not currently provide end-to-end encryption: the content of your notes is visible to system operators.

We do not normally reveal (or sell!) any of your information to any third party; only the people and services used to operate the site can see it. For instance, data is currently stored on Amazon's AWS cloud services. As a practice, we avoid reading the content of your notes, but we reserve the right to do so in the process of maintaining the site.

If Mini-notes receives a legally enforceable request for information such as a warrant or subpoena we will release your information in accordance with applicable laws.

Mini-notes generates a cookie which is used to enable login. There is no use of cookies for tracking and no third-party cookies.

If you choose to delete your account, all information (including the content of all notes is removed and cannot be recovered.

Mini-notes is intended for personal notekeeping at a reasonable scale. Storing a few hundred notes, each one with hundreds of lines of text is certainly a reasonable scale. Storing a million notes would not be!

Mini-notes is intended for storing actual, human-readable notes, not for archiving blobs of encrypted or base-64 encoded data.

Mini-notes does not permit the storage of notes which are illegal in the US or in your local jurisdiction.

Any violation of these usage policies may result in your information being deleted. Mini-notes may enforce these policies in ways that are arbitrary or inconsistent.

You can export your notes as a zip file containing text files.

Export Notes as:

Import Notes (must be either a zip containing .txt files OR a JSON file):

On most phones and some other systems, Mini-notes can be installed as a PWA (a kind of app). This installation is done through your browser.

One of these guides might be helpful:

Mini-notes is free to use, in the spirit of making the world a better place. We do not ever intend to incorporate ads. If the operating costs ever become big enough to be a concern we might consider taking donations; in the meantime, enjoy! At the moment, Mini-notes is a one-person project. Tech support for users is limited, but if you reach out to mcherm@mcherm.com we may be able to help you. The project comes with NO WARRANTIES (see license under "Copyright"). The content and implementation of this site are copyrighted by Michael Chermside, at the point when they were written (beginning in 2026). The parts that were generated by an AI are not copyrighted (see Thaler v. Perlmutter). The content and implementation are licensed under the MIT license (see below). They are also available at https://github.com/mcherm/mini-notes. Using this it would be possible for anyone to run their own copy of the Mini-notes site (under a different name).

Mini-notes is not currently making direct use of any libraries with their own copyright.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Michael Chermside

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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SOFTWARE.