You use Notepad as a scratchpad — then one day there are hundreds of tabs you never saved. NoteRescue pulls them all out at once: auto-named, de-duplicated, done.
Notepad became your scratchpad — a phone number here, a draft there, a to-do you never moved. Months later you go to close it and get a wall of "Do you want to save?" pop-ups. So you leave it open forever, terrified of losing the lot.
For tabs you've never saved, "Save All" throws a Save As box at you for every single one — you still type a name and pick a folder by hand, over and over. With a few hundred tabs, that's not a fix. It's an afternoon.
NoteRescue reads every unsaved tab straight from Notepad, auto-names each one from its first line, lets you weed out duplicates, and writes the whole pile to one folder — no per-file dialogs. Then it can close Notepad and tidy up for you.
Purpose-built for one annoying job — and finished to the last detail.
Even ones you've never saved once. One click surfaces the whole pile with a live preview.
File names are generated from each note's first line. Don't like one? Rename inline — double-click or F2 — with full undo.
One click flags identical and near-identical notes and unticks them. You choose how strict, and which copy to keep.
Type to filter the list instantly — by file name or by the full text inside each note.
Discard the tabs you don't want straight out of Notepad — with a confirmation so nothing goes by accident.
Write to any folder, then optionally close Notepad and clear the saved tabs — no more save prompts.
Open NoteRescue and click Scan Notepad. Every unsaved tab appears in a tidy list with previews and dates.
Rename, search, or find duplicates. Untick anything you don't want. You're always in control before a single file is written.
Pick a folder and click Save Selected. Your notes land as clean .txt files and the folder pops open.
Not unless you ask it to. Scanning and saving only read your tabs and write new .txt files — nothing is removed. The only features that clear tabs out of Notepad are ones you choose: "Close Notepad after saving" and "Discard Unchecked" (which asks you to confirm first).
Yes. NoteRescue reads Notepad's tab data even while the app is running, so you never have to close anything first.
No. NoteRescue is a single .exe file — download it and double-click. No installer, no dependencies.
Completely. Everything runs locally on your PC. NoteRescue has no internet connection, no accounts, and no telemetry. Your notes never leave your machine.
It needs the modern, tabbed Notepad — the default on Windows 11, or the free Microsoft Store version on Windows 10. The classic pre-tabs Notepad keeps no recoverable data, so there's nothing to rescue there.
Because the app isn't code-signed, SmartScreen shows a caution on any new unsigned app. Click More info → Run anyway. It's normal, and you'll usually only see it once.
NoteRescue is a one-time purchase of $9.99 (USD) — no subscription, yours forever. It runs on Windows 10 and Windows 11 with the modern tabbed Notepad.
Rescue them once, get a clean folder, and never dread closing Notepad again.