Last updated September 4, 2026
QuickNotes is a scratchpad for jotting quick notes. Everything you type — note text, tags, folders, colors, star and sort choices — is written directly to Chrome's built-in storage API on your device. By default that's chrome.storage.local, which never leaves the computer it's on.
If you turn on the optional Sync toggle (the ☁ button), your notes move to chrome.storage.sync instead. That's a feature Google's Chrome browser provides, tied to whatever Google account you're signed into — it syncs the same way your bookmarks or browser settings do. We never see this data, host it, or have access to it; it's between you and your own Chrome/Google account, governed by Google's privacy policy, not ours.
QuickNotes has no backend server. There is nothing for it to send data to, so it doesn't: track how you use the extension, run analytics or telemetry, show ads or work with ad networks, sell or share data with anyone (there's no data of ours to sell), or require sign-up, an account, or any personal information to work.
| Permission | What it's for |
|---|---|
| storage | Saves your notes and settings using Chrome's storage APIs, described above. |
| downloads | Lets the Export button save your notes to a .txt file on your computer, when you choose to click it. Nothing is downloaded without you asking. |
| commands | Registers the optional keyboard shortcut to open the QuickNotes popup. Doesn't read or transmit anything. |
Delete a note with the Delete button (a 5-second Undo appears in case that was a mistake) and it's gone from storage as soon as the write completes. Uninstalling the extension removes everything chrome.storage.local was holding for it. If you had Sync turned on, turning it back off copies your notes to local storage and clears them from chrome.storage.sync; uninstalling while sync is on removes the extension's data from Chrome Sync the same way disabling it does.
QuickNotes doesn't collect any personal information from anyone, including children, for the reasons above.
If this policy ever changes, the "last updated" date at the top will change with it. Given the extension has no server and no data collection, there isn't much surface area for that to happen on.