About Fresh Jots
A calm place to write that opens in the browser you already have, saves as you type, and stays out of your way. No app to install, no setup, no learning curve — your first note is a thirty-second sign-up away.
Here's exactly what you get, and what you don't.
What it is
Fresh Jots is a notebook that lives in your browser. Sign in, write a note, it saves. Open it from any other browser signed into the same account.
It comes in two modes — Everyday (rich text: headings, lists, links, bold) and Plain notes (plain text in a monospace editor). Each mode keeps its own separate set of notes; switching only changes which set you see.
What people use it for
- Writers — drafts, daily writing, version history.
- Students — class notes that survive the semester and outlast a school email.
- Daily journaling — quiet pages, no streaks, no AI prompts.
- Meeting notes — searchable minutes with optional public share links for the room.
- Developers — every script gets its own append-only notebook via the REST API.
What it isn't
Not a wiki, not a task manager, not a second brain. No block editor, no nested databases, no plugins, no AI assistant. If you're weighing it against Notion or Obsidian, those pages spell out the trade-offs.
What's inside
- Rich-text editor in Everyday mode; monospace plain-text editor in Plain notes mode.
- Autosave — edits persist while you type.
- Folders to organise notes (up to 100 per account).
- Pin notes; search every title and word; sort by most recent, name, or size.
- If you delete a note, you can get it back for 30 days. After that, it's permanently gone.
- Make any single note public by turning on a share link; one click to turn it off again.
- Download a single note as
.txt,.docx, or.pdf. - Add it to your phone or desktop home screen for one-tap access — no app store needed.
- A choice of theme, reading font, and text size from Appearance.
Bringing notes in, taking them out
From Options you can import
from Evernote (.enex),
Markdown (Obsidian, Bear, Logseq), or HTML (Apple Notes, Notion HTML export) — up to
10 files at once.
From the same page you can export the whole account: we build a
.zip in the background and email a download
link when it's ready (usually a few minutes; valid 24 hours). Request another any time.
Read and export remain available even after a paid subscription ends. We don't show ads, and your notes are not used to train AI.
How it's priced
Free: 10 notes total, no card, no trial clock. Personal: $24 / year for up to 1,000 notes. The Dev tier raises the caps further and adds a REST API, dead-man's-switch alerts, and outbound webhooks; the Team tier adds shared notes and an audit log for two-person ops teams. Cancel any time — your notes stay yours. Full breakdown on the pricing page.
Who runs it
Built and run by Goran Arsov. One person — the support address goes to my inbox, the deploy goes to a single VPS I administer, and the database backups land in my off-host bucket. No team, no investors, no growth team.
I started Fresh Jots because every note-taking app I tried wanted to be a second brain, a task manager, or an AI companion — and I just wanted a place to write things down. The changelog lists what's shipped recently. If something goes wrong or you have an idea, the contact page reaches me directly.
Start your first note
10 notes free. No card, no trial clock — just sign up and write.