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Work · April 4, 2022

The Internet's Textarea

Quickly scribble notes in the browser

What it does

The Textarea is the quickest and simplest way to scribble notes in the browser. It saves the text in the local storage and the URL, so you can share it with a friend or recover lost text from the browser history.

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