How to share a note online with a link (no sign-up)

13 November 2026 · JotLink team

Sometimes you just need to get some text to someone else: a shopping list, a few lines of code, meeting notes, an address. Email feels too formal, a chat app mangles the formatting, and making an account somewhere takes longer than writing the text. An online notepad with shareable links solves that in a few seconds.

Step 1: Open a new note

Go to jotlink.pages.dev and click New note. You get an empty note straight away, with a short random name like k3X9pQ. There's nothing to install and no account to create.

Step 2: Type

Write or paste your text. JotLink saves it automatically about two seconds after you stop typing; the status at the top changes to “Saved”. A note can hold up to 100 KB of text, which is roughly 15,000 words.

Step 3: Copy the link

Click Share. The note's link is copied to your clipboard (if your browser blocks that, JotLink shows the link so you can copy it yourself). The link is short, like jotlink.pages.dev/k3X9pQ, and opens the note. Paste it into a message, an email or a document. Whoever opens the link sees the note.

Tip: choose a memorable address

Instead of a random address, you can type your own name for the note into the address bar, for example jotlink.pages.dev/team-shopping-list. If nobody has used that name yet, you get a fresh note there. Names can be 6 to 40 characters long and use letters, digits, - and _. They are case-sensitive, so Shopping-List and shopping-list are two different notes.

Keep in mind that short, obvious names are easy to guess. For anything private, the random address is the better choice.

What the other person can do

By default, anyone with the link can read and edit the note. That's handy for working on a list together: each person's changes are saved for everyone. If two people save different changes at the same moment, JotLink notices and asks which version to keep, so nobody's text is silently overwritten.

If you want others to only read the note, lock it with a password. See How to password-protect a note you share.

A few good habits

• Don't share secrets. Anyone who gets the link can open the note, so don't put passwords, bank details or other sensitive data in it.
• Keep a copy. Click Download to save the note as a .txt file on your device.
• Offline is OK. If your connection drops, JotLink keeps your text on your device and saves it when you're back online.