Pagestay
Pagestay keeps your notes in Chrome's side panel, next to the page you are reading. Attach a note to a page or to a whole site, and your text is saved as you type. Your notes never leave your device.
Write in the side panel while you browse, with the page still in view. A note can be global, attached to a whole site, or attached to a single page. Click the toolbar button on a page and its notes are there. Everything is autosaved, and each note keeps its earlier versions.
Search inside the text of your notes and by tag, and sort notes into folders and tags. The title filter stays free.
A rule note applies to every page that matches a pattern such as example.com/docs/*. When you open the panel on a matching page, the note is shown for you; Chrome only lets you open the panel yourself, so Pagestay never opens it. Scheduled backups save a copy of your notes to your Downloads folder, keeping the last 7.
Deleted notes stay in the trash for 30 days, and you can undo a delete. Export all your notes to JSON or Markdown at any time and import them again with a preview. Export and restore are always free.
Open Pagestay from the keyboard: Control+Shift+N on Mac, Alt+Shift+N on Windows and Linux.
Your notes stay on your device. Pagestay has no account, no sync, no AI and no analytics, and makes no network requests, except a single one-time check when you activate Pro.
The only thing it can send is the email address you type to activate Pro, with the product name. Pagestay shows no permission warning when you install it; the permissions to follow your tabs and to save backup files are optional and asked for only when you turn those features on. The full details are in the privacy policy.
The free plan has unlimited notes in the side panel, page and site notes, autosave, version history, a 30-day trash, a title filter and export to JSON or Markdown. Your existing notes are never locked, and restoring them is never gated, with or without Pro.
Pro: $4.99 one-time, no subscription. It adds search inside notes and tags, folders and tags, rule notes and scheduled backups. Pagestay and Clipstay together are $6.99 as a bundle, which unlocks Pro in both. You activate Pro by entering your purchase email once. 30-day refund, no questions asked. Refund policy.
Email [email protected]. Include your Chrome version and operating system if you can, and leave out any private text from your notes.
On your device, in Chrome's local extension storage. Pagestay has no account and no sync, and makes no network requests, except a single one-time check when you activate Pro. Uninstalling it removes the data, so export your notes first if you want a copy.
No. It has no content scripts and no access to page content. It reads only the address of the tab, to find the notes attached to that page or site, and it does not save the addresses of pages you have no note for.
Only if you press “Enable page notes”. That asks for the tabs permission, which Chrome words as “read your browsing history”. Pagestay compares the address of the current tab with your notes on your device and sends it nowhere. Without it, Pagestay still works on the tab where you click its button.
Export them to JSON or Markdown in Settings at any time, and import a JSON export on another computer. Export is always free.
Nothing is deleted, hidden or locked. Notes in folders and with tags stay visible, editable and exportable on the free plan. Only search inside notes, rule notes that show a matching note, scheduled backups and creating new rules, folders and tags need Pro.
Yes. Enter the same purchase email in Settings under Plan. Pagestay checks it once, when you press Activate, and does not store the email.