# The notepad

A plain text box on your dashboard. Web addresses in it become clickable links, YouTube links get a player, and exercise links open the exercise.

## Notes with working links

The notepad is for things like what the teacher said, the video to watch again, or the chords of the next song. It is on the [dashboard](https://pianokitty.com/dashboard), on the same screen as the practice button.

It holds plain text, and it handles links:

- a web address becomes a clickable link;
- a YouTube link gets a player underneath the notes, so the lesson video plays right there;
- a PianoKitty exercise link opens that exercise.

![The dashboard notepad with a to-do list, an exercise link, a video link and a sheet-music link, and a video player below.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/notepad/notepad.webp)

## What to keep in it

- Write down what the teacher asked for while you still remember it.
- Paste the tutorials you want to work through; they play inside the notepad.
- Paste a song’s chords here, then copy them into the [chord editor](https://pianokitty.com/editor) when you are ready to drill them.
- Keep links to the drills you do every day, so you can open them without going through the menus.
- Keep a practice diary, one line a day about what felt hard.

> When you are signed in, the notepad syncs, so you can write on the laptop and read it on the phone by the piano.

## Adding pages from other websites

You can also add a page without typing. The [Send to PianoKitty bookmarklet](https://pianokitty.com/features/bookmarklet) puts the title and address of the page you are on at the top of the notepad in one click.

## Open it

- Try it: [Your dashboard](https://pianokitty.com/dashboard): The notepad is at the bottom.
- Try it: [The bookmarklet](https://pianokitty.com/my/bookmarklets): Send any page into it.
- Try it: [The chord editor](https://pianokitty.com/editor): Turn pasted chords into a drill.
- Try it: [An exercise to link to](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=progressions&prog=ii%20V%20I&mode=major&key=F): Copy its address into your notes.

Related: [The dashboard](https://pianokitty.com/features/dashboard.md), [Send to PianoKitty](https://pianokitty.com/features/bookmarklet.md), [Exercise lists](https://pianokitty.com/features/lists.md)

Source: https://pianokitty.com/features/notepad