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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. For those who feel strongly
on this subject: nothing here was "vibecoded": all of the design was done by a human and every
line of code (other than tests) was carefully reviewed by a human being, but AI was used
extensively in the coding.
Anyone may make an account by providing an email and a password. We do not currently verify
or enforce that the email is valid, but it is not an email you have access to then you will be
unable to recover a forgotten password, and we cannot contact you about your account.
Mini-notes does not keep a record of your password, only a hash used to verify it.
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.
If you allow it to use local storage, Mini-notes will keep a copy of the notes in memory
provided by your browser. This will enable you to continue reading and editing notes even if
your device is offline. The changes will automatically sync when the network is available
again and if conflicts occur a second copy of the note will be saved to ensure that no work
is lost. However, if you go an extended period (like a week) without using Mini-notes, certain
browsers may delete the local copy, which would lose any edits that were not synced.
Installing Mini-notes to your home screen avoids this.
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.
a .txt file containing a single note (in ASCII or UTF-8)
a zip containing .txt files
a JSON file in mini-notes or SimpleNote format
a .sdocx file from Samsung Notes (only text notes will be imported)
Instructions for importing from specific sources:
simplenote.com
Go to [Settings / Tools / Export Notes] to create an export file this can read.
Samsung Notes
Export in Samsung Notes format (".sdoc") and import all the individual files.
On most phones and some other systems, Mini-notes can be installed "to your home screen" as
a PWA (a kind of app). This installation is done through your browser.
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
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.