Other Tools & Apps

More free tools for installers and engineers. Like System Draw, each one is a single file that runs in your web browser, with nothing to install.

HTML-Notebook

A free notebook and wiki that lives in a single HTML file. Keep your job notes, IP lists, snag lists, commands and asset registers together, and take them anywhere the file goes.

Download HTML-Notebook Open the example notebook

Free. No install and no account. Works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.

Example pages

These pages are from the example notebook, an installer's notes for a made-up CCTV job. Open it in your browser to click around, or select a picture to see it full size.

The HTML-Notebook home page showing three sections, Jobs, Reference and Customers, and a list of recently updated pages — **Home page.** Every section and page at a glance, with recently updated pages and tasks that are due soon.

A notes page for a CCTV install with headings, a tick list and a cable schedule table — **Job notes.** A CCTV install with the scope, a tick list for the day and a cable schedule table, linked to the site IP list.

An IP address list page with IP addresses, hostnames, ports and descriptions for cameras, an NVR and a switch — **IP address list.** Cameras, NVR and switch with hostnames and ports. Copy one IP or all of them, sort, or copy as a hosts file.

A snag list page with tasks, due dates and priorities — **Snag list.** Tasks with due dates and priority. Anything due soon shows on the home page.

A code snippets page with a PowerShell ping sweep, switch VLAN config and an RTSP check — **Useful commands.** Commands and switch config with colour highlighting and a copy button.

An asset register table listing an NVR, switch, cameras and an intruder panel with serial numbers and status — **Asset register.** Your own columns, like a simple spreadsheet. Sort, filter and copy as CSV.

A fault report page for a zone 3 PIR false alarm with findings and actions — **Fault report.** Built from the fault report template, with findings and the action taken.

A bookmarks page with approval bodies, trade associations and tools in groups — **Bookmarks.** Useful websites sorted into groups, each with a short note.

Seven page types

Notes with headings, lists, tick boxes, tables and code blocks
IP address lists with hostnames, ports and descriptions
Bookmarks sorted into groups
Code snippets with colour highlighting
Tasks with due dates and priority
Tables with your own columns
Credentials with hidden passwords and copy buttons

Start a page from a template: meeting notes, daily log, fault report, project plan, checklist, how-to, to-do list, asset register or contact list. Link pages together with [[Page name]], search every page from the top bar, and pick a theme you like.

Your notes stay in the file

Everything you write is saved in your browser as you go. Click Save to file to write it into the HTML file itself, so it goes wherever the file goes: a USB stick, a laptop or a shared folder. In Chrome and Edge it saves straight back over the file. In other browsers a new copy downloads.

Turn on a password to encrypt the whole notebook (AES-256). Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Get HTML-Notebook

Download the blank notebook, save it somewhere safe and open it in your web browser. The example notebook is there to try, but your own notes are best kept in your own copy.

Download HTML-Notebook Download the example

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