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Create a note that self-destructs immediately after being read. No history, no logs.
There is a category of writing that exists only because you needed to think on paper. Talking points before you tell a contractor the engagement is over. The first honest version of an apology you will sand down before sending. A page of bullets working out whether to leave your co-founder. These artifacts need to exist for one careful read.
Apple Notes, Notion, and Obsidian are the wrong instruments here. Apple Notes silently fans the document out to every Mac and iPad on the same Apple ID, and the trash retains it for thirty days. Notion stamps a version history on every keystroke; even after you empty the trash, paid plans let admins restore from snapshots up to ninety days later. Obsidian writes plain markdown into a vault that almost certainly syncs through iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Obsidian Sync.
PasteOnce inverts the assumption. You paste the full draft, choose a short window, and hand the recipient a link. They open it once, the ciphertext leaves Redis on the same request, and the document never lived anywhere else. For talking points you needed to hold for an hour, that is the half-life you wanted.
Client-side encrypted. We can't see your data.
Your data is encrypted in your browser before it leaves your device.
Messages are automatically deleted after being read once.
We never see your data. Only encrypted blobs pass through our servers.
Links work exactly once. Refresh the page and it's gone forever.
Your sensitive data is encrypted in your browser using AES-256-GCM. The encryption key is generated randomly and never sent to our servers.
Only the encrypted blob is stored in our database, with an automatic expiration time. We literally cannot read your data.
When your recipient opens the link, the encrypted data is fetched and immediately deleted from our servers using an atomic Redis GETDEL. The key in the URL hash decrypts the message in their browser.
Open a vim or BBEdit window not pointed at a synced folder, write the full draft there, paste the finished version into PasteOnce, and close the editor without saving. Skip TextEdit defaults that auto-save into iCloud Drive.
If the points are for a meeting later today, the one-hour TTL is correct. The seven-day option exists for asynchronous handoffs to a therapist or coach reading at their convenience; do not reach for it because it feels safer.
Replace names with initials, redact employer references to a generic role, and remove specific dates. A draft about firing 'M. on the contracting team' carries less risk than one naming a specific person and project.
Once your therapist, coach, or trusted friend confirms the link opened, you know the document self-erased. The ambiguity of 'did they read it' becomes a binary signal — the closure you want.
You end an engagement with a contractor tomorrow morning. You write the phrasing tonight: severance terms, what to say if they push back, the line you will not cross. Send the link to your co-founder, they read on the train, the link dies.
You owe someone a thoughtful response after a falling-out. You write the messy version first — the one that admits more than the final email will — and a friend reads it. The unedited version never reaches sent mail.
You manage someone whose performance has slipped and want to rehearse what you will say. You draft the script, share it with your skip-level for feedback, and once they have read it the document evaporates.
Some thoughts exist to be written and discarded — a page working through whether to leave a job, or sit with the feeling another quarter. Write it, read it back, let it disappear.
Deleting a Notion page sends it to the workspace trash for thirty days. After permanent deletion, paid plans retain page history up to ninety days, and admins can restore it. PasteOnce holds nothing past first read — no trash, no version history.
Yes. The form accepts up to 500,000 characters of plaintext, roughly 80,000 words — more than you would draft in one sitting. Paragraph breaks, bullet points, and indentation all survive the round trip.
Then this is the wrong tool. PasteOnce is built for writing whose value ends at the moment of reading. If they will revisit the document, send it through a normal channel, or summarize the durable parts in a follow-up message.
The text is encrypted in your browser before any network request and is never written to form-history storage by Chrome or Safari. The URL contains the decryption key in the fragment, which browsers exclude from sync history on most platforms.