Getting Started
Vivpad is built for quick reusable text: call notes, work order text, policy lines, saved numbers, and repeatable workflows that you do not want to retype all day.
First Steps
1. Sign in
Create a Vivpad account so projects can sync online instead of depending on local browser storage. After sign-in, Vivpad shows your recent projects first.
2. Choose a project
Use the project launcher after sign-in, or File > Projects, to load, rename, copy, delete, or create a sample project.
3. Test autosave
Edit a saved project, pause for the save status to update, refresh, and confirm your changes reopen correctly.
How Saving Works
- Autosave starts after a project exists online. New Project asks for a name and saves the blank project right away.
- When you stop typing for a few seconds, Vivpad saves the current project to your account.
- The save status in the top bar is the best quick check before closing the window.
- Vivpad also keeps a short emergency draft in the browser while you type. If the page refreshes before autosave finishes, it may offer to restore that draft.
- For important beta work, use File > Export Project or File > Export All Projects as your own backup copy.
What To Try In Beta
- Create a project and add the templates you would use during a real workday.
- Import a project from the old Chrome extension and make sure the blocks feel right.
- Rename, duplicate, delete, and export projects from the Projects dialog.
- Check the account menu for storage totals, account settings, help pages, privacy, terms, roadmap, pricing, and feedback. Use File > Export All Projects for a full backup.
- Use it on a computer where local storage gets wiped, then sign in again and load your project.
Beta Tester Checklist
- Create a new project, refresh the page, and confirm it appears near the top of the project launcher.
- Edit several blocks, stop typing, and wait until the top bar says the project saved.
- Close and reopen Vivpad on another browser or computer, then confirm the same project loads.
- Try File > Export Project and File > Export All Projects so you know where your backup copies are.
- Send feedback for anything confusing, slow, ugly, or scary, especially if saving or loading feels uncertain.
Beta Safety
Keep a backup of important notes with Export while Vivpad is in beta. Avoid storing sensitive customer information, payment data, passwords, private keys, medical information, or anything your workplace does not allow in third-party tools.
- Use realistic but non-sensitive test data when sharing screenshots or feedback.
- If a project matters for work, export it before testing big changes.
- Report any save, login, recovery, or project-list issue even if it only happened once.
Send Useful Feedback
The best feedback says what you were trying to do, what happened, what you expected, and whether the save status said Saved, Unsaved, Saving, or Failed.