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Dev tools · June 2, 2026

Quick Scratchpad

Quick Scratchpad: Capture text instantly, skip the AI drama.

Quick Scratchpad launched on June 2, 2026 with 3 votes, #6,658 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

Quick Scratchpad is your instant brain‑dump pad. No bloated AI tools, no tab‑hopping circus. Just highlight → right‑click → save. Boom, it’s in your pad with source + timestamp. Format on the fly (bold, italic, links, strikethrough) with a tiny floating toolbar. Fast, minimal, private. Because sometimes you just need speed, not another ‘smart’ tool pretending to think for you. Quick Scratchpad - because your ideas deserve instant capture, not a waiting room in someone else’s oversized AI tool 🙂

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