In Operation
Start the program, and we’re invited to create a new note.
We’ve created a note and applied a little formatting.
When we hover over a note, there are focus indicators.
The interface lets us create a new note by clicking the + icon in the top left hand corner.
Adjacent to the + icon is a hamburger icon which lets us change to different styles in addition to the yellow style. These styles are: Pink, Green, Purple, Blue, Gray, Charcoal, and Window.
There are also some basic formatting options revealed at the bottom of the window. Besides bolding text, we can apply italics, underline and strikethrough.
Once we’ve created some notes, the main window offers search functionality and the ability to quickly edit each note.
Summary
Sticky Notes is a very basic app which lets you take notes and stay organized. It’s probably too basic for most users.
We’d like additional functionality added such as the ability to import and export JSON, create groups, images, as well as the ability to backup and restore notes. At the time of writing the last release was back in May 2023, but there are recent commits.
For other sticky note tools, check out our updated roundup.
Website: github.com/vixalien/sticky
Support:
Developer: Angelo Verlain, Chris Davis
License: MIT License
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Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – In Operation and Summary
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| Sticky | Very simple utility offering a good range of features |
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Usually you include links to 1. Sticky Notes apps and/or 2. Notes apps
Hi Ben
We wanted to update our sticky note roundup before including a link to it here. The roundup has now been updated, and a link to it is in the Summary section.