Paper Plane

Stamps

Emoji

How a note by plane works

  1. Write itA few lines on the paper, up to 500 characters, and your name if you like.
  2. Fold itIt's sealed in your browser and folded into a paper plane. You get a short link.
  3. Send the linkBy message or email. When they open it, the plane flies in, lands and unfolds into your note.

Questions

Who can read my note?

Only someone with the link. Your note is locked in your browser before it leaves, and the key is the part of the link after the #, which browsers never send to a server. Nobody else can read it, us included.

How long does a note last?

Seven days. The sealed note is kept for a week and then deleted, and its link stops working. If a note can’t be stored, the whole note travels inside a longer link instead, and that one doesn’t expire.

Does it disappear once it’s read?

No. It can be opened again, as often as they like, until it expires after seven days. For a password or anything that must vanish the moment it’s read, use a burn-after-reading tool instead. A note by plane is for the nice things.

Can they write back?

Yes. Whoever catches it can fold a note back, or press a rubber stamp or an emoji onto it and send it home. Replies stack up like papers, with the earlier notes peeking out underneath, and either of you can throw it again just to watch it fly.

Do they need an app or the extension?

No. A note by plane is a web page: it opens in any browser, on a phone too, with no app, no account and nothing to install. Sending one is free.

Sending a password instead? Private note links, compared.

The paper plane that brings the note can live on your own pages too: Paper Plane, a free extension for Chrome and Firefox.