Overview
ScratchPad is a simple, free application for Mac OS X designed to help keep those notes you need to jot down organized. Essentially a modern version of the program Note Pad that came with the classic Mac OS, ScratchPad is exactly that: a scratch pad.
Features
- Supports rich text so you can customize your fonts and colors anyway you like
- Support for images and pictures
- Lightweight - has everything you need without the bulk
- Multiple pages so you can organize your notes however you would like to
- Automatic saving
- Written in Cocoa to take advantage of Apple's native API
- [New] Supports synchronization across multiple computers with Dropbox
- [New] Sandboxed for better security
- Free!
What's new in ScratchPad
Version 1.4.1:
- Updated back and forward buttons to use OS X's native buttons
- Added Retina-compatible icons
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App requirements:
- Intel 64
- Intel 32
- Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later
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How would you rate ScratchPad app?
8 Reviews of ScratchPad
Most helpful
Very simple and elegant way to drag drop, store and display images and text from the web and add notes or whatever (that's what I use it for, anyway, art).
It's stable and there are no bloated toolbars, grids, complicated interface or other useless structural impositions - it's the best approximation of a truly straightforward notebook or scrapbook I've found, and I've tried a bunch. Just click on whatever you've dragged in and it opens source. Add whatever text you want. Back up with DropBox if you want.
I use it mostly for several collections- primarily art-related images/ideas and text from the web for inspiration, at this point hundreds of pages worth. It's paginated, so an index is easy to compile. It might be nice to be able to create a category menu (like simple notepads) instead, but I wouldn't change anything else. You can do other clever things with this app (see 'about') - I don't need to.