NotePad

NotePad

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Trevin Beattie Note Writing

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Description

A simple and intuitive notepad based on the app bundled with Palm Pilot.
  • Entirely offline, requiring few permissions to run.
    • Permission to use external storage is only needed to back up or restore your notes on Marshmallow (Android 6) and older.
    • The following permissions are added by WorkManager, a Google library used to run the export, import, and password re-encryption operations in the background when initiated by the user. The core app does not use these on its own.
      • Permission to run a foreground service, added on Pie (Android 9) and later.
      • Permission to view network connections, used by WorkManager to determine the best time to schedule background tasks.
      • Permission to prevent the phone from sleeping, used by WorkManager to keep the processor awake while a background task is running.
      • Permission to run at startup, used by WorkManager to reschedule any pending background task after the phone is rebooted.
  • Create any number of categories for different notes.
  • Mark notes as private and optionally encrypt them with a password.
  • Export notes to a local XML file.
  • Import notes from an XML file.
  • Backwards compatible with Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and up.

What’s new (1.7.3)

Version 1.7.3
* Updated the target SDK to Android 17 (Cinnamon Bun).
* Added support for switching the UI theme to dark/night mode.

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
1.7.3 current
d4f8a97e84b394ec…
2026-07-19 1.5 MB API 21
1.7.2
6015ca5fc0ae17a1…
2026-06-13 1.9 MB API 21
1.7.1
875d38b3a2e81f99…
2026-05-12 1.6 MB API 14

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Write storageCreate and change files on the device storage.
  • Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
  • Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
  • Run at startupStart automatically after the device is switched on.
  • Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
  • notes.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
  • Read storageRead files on the device storage.

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