Share text or notes with one link

Guide · updated October 2026 · 2 min read

Plain text is the most portable format there is. It survives every editor, every chat client and every copy-paste, and it cannot carry a hidden macro or a font that renders differently on the other side. When the thing you want to send is words, a paste link beats a document every time.

When a paste link is the right choice

Longer than a chat message. Chat apps collapse anything past a screenful; a link stays readable.
The text will be quoted or forwarded. A link is one URL instead of a wall of text pasted into three different threads.
You want the wording preserved. Pastes are plain text: no smart quotes, no auto-lists, no "helpful" autocorrect.
It should disappear. Expiry and burn-after-read are built in, so notes do not live forever in someone's history.

How to create one

Open pastesite.com. The editor is the front page — there is no dashboard to find first.
Paste or type the text. Leave the language on Plain text; highlighting only helps when the text is code.
Add an optional title so the link is recognisable in a chat preview.
Choose Public or Unlisted. Unlisted still works for anyone with the link, but stays out of Recent and Trending.
Set an expiry if the note is temporary. Tick burn after read if one read is all it gets.
Create the paste and send the link. If you set a password, send it separately — a password in the same message adds nothing.

Notes versus a paste

A notes app syncs, organises and lets you edit later. A paste does one thing: it freezes a block of text at a URL. Use notes for anything you will keep working on, and a paste for anything you are handing to someone else. Signed-in pastes are editable and keep a revision history, which covers the middle case — a draft you want to fix after sending the link.

Pasting comfortably long text

The limit is 100,000 characters, which is roughly 15,000 words — longer than most chapters. In practice the constraint is the reader, not the server. If the block is longer than a few screens, add a title that says what it is and put the most important sentence first. Nobody reads a 12,000-word paste from the top.

Privacy note: pastes are visible to anyone holding the link, and they are stored on the server for as long as the paste exists. This is not end-to-end encrypted. For anything that looks like a credential, rotate it instead of pasting it. Create a text paste

Frequently asked questions

Is there a character limit?

100,000 characters per paste. Titles are limited to 200 characters.

Can I edit a text paste after sharing it?

If you created it while signed in, yes — open your dashboard, edit the paste, and the same link serves the new content. Older versions stay in the revision history (up to 20). Anonymous pastes cannot be edited or deleted, which is why the link is the only handle you get.

Will formatting like bold or bullet points survive?

No. Text is stored and displayed verbatim. If you need structure, use Markdown and share the source, or use a document tool.

Can I password-protect a note?

Yes. The password is stored as a bcrypt hash, so it cannot be recovered if you lose it. Send it over a different channel than the link.