Version 3 Free Chrome

Your new tab is a notes canvas.

Open a tab, double-click, start typing. Easy Note v3 adds Google Drive sync, an endless canvas, pages to organise everything, and a lock so you can't delete a note by mistake.

Double-click the board below to try it — drag a note by its top bar
What's new

Four things worth opening a new tab for

☁️

Google Drive sync

Sign in with Google and your notes follow you to every computer you use Chrome on.

🗒️

Infinite canvas

The board never runs out. Pan around it, zoom in and out, and fit everything back on screen with one click.

🗂️

Pages

Keep work, shopping and side projects on separate boards — and nest pages inside pages.

🔒

Lock notes

Lock the notes you can't afford to lose. You can still move them, but they can't be deleted.

How to

Turn on Google Drive sync

Your notes normally stay on the computer you wrote them on. Sign in and they're kept in step across all of them.

  1. Open a new tab and look at the buttons in the bottom-right corner.
  2. Click the cloud button ☁A small panel opens showing your sync status.
  3. Choose “Sign in with Google” and pick your account.Google will ask permission once. Easy Note only ever gets its own private folder.
  4. That's it.Notes sync straight away, then every couple of minutes. “Sync now” forces it, and the panel always shows when it last ran.

What Easy Note can and can't see

Notes go into a private folder that belongs to the extension. It doesn't appear in your Drive, and Easy Note cannot open, read or touch any of your other files. To stop syncing, click Sign out — your notes stay on the computer.

How to

Move around the infinite canvas

There are no edges. Spread notes out as much as you like — you'll always be able to get back to them.

  1. Add a note by double-clicking any empty spot.
  2. Move around by scrolling, or hold Space and drag the board.
  3. Zoom with ⌘ or Ctrl and the scroll wheel, or pinch on a trackpad.Zooming follows your cursor, so you land on what you were looking at.
  4. Lost a note? Click Fit in the bottom-right and everything on the page comes back into view.
The Easy Note canvas showing six coloured notes arranged in two rows on a dotted board, a list of pages down the left, and zoom controls in the bottom-right corner.
A board with the page list on the left and zoom controls bottom-right.
How to

Organise notes into pages

One endless board is great until work and groceries end up side by side. Pages give each a board of its own.

  1. Click + at the top of the page list to make a new page, then type its name and press Enter.
  2. Make a sub-page by hovering a page and clicking its own +.Nest them as deep as you need — click the little arrow to fold a branch away.
  3. Move notes between pages by dragging a note onto a page in the list.Select several first and they all move together.
  4. Rename by double-clicking a page's name. Delete with the × — you'll be asked to confirm, because its notes go too.

Each page remembers where you were

Pan and zoom are saved per page, so coming back to a board puts you exactly where you left it. Hide the whole sidebar with the ☰ button when you want the full screen.

How to

Lock a note you can't lose

Wi-Fi passwords, a phone number, the thing you'll need in six months — lock it and a stray click can't take it away.

  1. Hover the note — its buttons appear along the top bar.They stay hidden the rest of the time so the board looks clean.
  2. Click the padlock 🔓It closes to 🔒 and the note gets a thin outline so you can spot it at a glance.
  3. The delete button greys out. The note still moves, resizes and edits normally.
  4. To delete it later, click the padlock again to unlock, then delete.

While you're in that top bar

  • Colour — eight swatches for colour-coding a board.
  • Fullscreen — click ⤢, or double-click the note's top bar, to blow it up for proper writing. Esc puts it back exactly where it was.
  • Paste anything — text arrives clean, without fonts and colours from the website you copied it from. Screenshots paste straight in.
How to

Tidy a messy board in one click

  1. Drag a box across empty space to select several notes, or hold Shift and click them one by one.
  2. Drag any one of them and the whole group moves together.
  3. Use the toolbar that appears at the top to line them up, space them evenly, or snap them into a neat grid.
  4. ⌘A selects everything, Esc clears the selection, Delete removes it.Locked notes are skipped, so they survive a bulk delete.
Six notes with blue selection outlines and a floating toolbar reading '6 selected' followed by alignment, distribute and grid buttons.
Six notes selected, with the alignment toolbar at the top of the screen.
How to

Find a note anywhere

  1. Press ⌘F (or click the magnifier).Before you type a thing, it lists the five notes you edited most recently.
  2. Start typing to search every page at once — not just the board you're on.
  3. Use ↑ ↓ and Enter, or just click a result.
  4. Easy Note flies you there — it opens the right page, highlights the note and zooms in on it.
The search panel open over the canvas with an empty search box, listing five notes under a heading reading 'Recently edited', each with a colour chip and the page it belongs to.
An empty search box offers your most recent notes, each labelled with its page.
Upgrading

Already using Easy Note? Your notes come with you

There's nothing to export and nothing to set up. The first time v3 opens, it brings across every note from the old version — with bold, italics, headings, lists, links and note colours intact.

Your old notes are left untouched

v3 copies them; it never changes or deletes the originals. If you ever go back to the old version, everything is exactly where you left it.

Cheat sheet

Everything in one place

Do thisGet that
Double-click the boardNew note
Drag across empty boardSelect several notes
Space + drag, or scrollMove around the board
⌘ / Ctrl + scroll, or pinchZoom in and out
Shift + click a noteAdd it to the selection
⌘A · Esc · DeleteSelect all · clear · delete
Double-click a note's top barFullscreen (Esc to close)
⌘FSearch every page
Drag a note onto a pageMove it to that page
FitBring every note back on screen

Good to know

Sync checks for changes every couple of minutes rather than instantly, so give it a moment after editing on another computer — or click Sync now. It's built for one person across several machines, not for editing the same note with someone else at the same time.