CLUSTER DESKTOP-NOTES-STICKY · 28 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-01-11
Desktop sticky notes apps
This cluster comprises sticky-note applications for desktops, mobile, and web, focused on quick notes, to-dos, and reminders with features like always-on-top pinning, system tray access, and local storage. Entries appear sporadically from 2013 through early 2026, with a modest uptick in the first half of 2026, though most members have a dated entry only once. Traction leaders are StickyNote4MyLove (3 stars), Xingyu (2 stars), and slipnote (0 stars).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 6 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 5 hobby · 12 open source · 3 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01omarchy-stickies3★3 days—Linux desktop app for creating sticky notes with semantic search over note contents.
- 02folder-stickers2★11 days—hobbyDesktop app that places sticky notes inside folder windows on Mac and Windows, with each note remembering its position and text per folder.
- 03StickyNote4MyLove3★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyLightweight desktop sticky notes app that keeps notes pinned on top, allows magnetic snapping, stores data locally, and supports bilingual interface.
- 04AkashicFusenRecords0★10 dayslivehand-codedhobbyA desktop sticky notes application that automatically saves note content, position, size, and color and supports exporting notes to text files.
- 05Jorts0★26 dayslivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop sticky notes app that displays short-term information on screen as colorful notes with editable themes and titles.
- 06slipnote0★1 moliveDesktop sticky-note app for Windows that manages memos, to-dos, and priority matrix locally without an account.
- 07Noty - Notes in Notification0★15 daysliveopen sourceAndroid app that shows notes as persistent notifications with quick add from the quick settings tile.
- 08DesktopTodoNotes0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop app that creates sticky-note todo lists on Windows with auto-save and system tray controls.
- 09sticky_notes-consolidation0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyA web application that provides a simple interface for users to create, view, edit, and delete sticky notes.
- 10pinclip0★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that pins clipboard text or images as always-on-top sticky notes on the screen.
- 11stickynote0★1 mo—Simple sticky note application for quick notes and reminders.
- 12Jorts0★3 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop sticky-notes application for displaying short-term reminders and notes on screen with colorful themes and a private handwritten scribble mode.
- 13waynote0★1 moliveopen sourceSticky-notes desktop application for tiling window managers that displays markdown notes as on-screen widgets.
- 14nextcloud-app-carnet0★4 moliveopen sourceNextcloud server extension that adds digital sticky notes for quick personal note-taking within a self-hosted cloud platform.
- 15stickee0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that shows simple sticky notes on screen for quick reminders and short text snippets.
- 16notejot0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMinimal desktop sticky-notes application for capturing short-term ideas and reminders on a Linux desktop.
- 17gnome-shell-extension-notes0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop extension that displays customizable sticky notes directly on the desktop background for quick reminders.
- 18qt-notes0★5 moliveopen sourceDesktop sticky-notes application that stores and encrypts each note individually.
- 19quicknote-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop utility that lets users quickly paste text snippets or jot down notes directly from the system taskbar.
- 20note-liber-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that displays simple sticky notes for jotting down quick reminders and short-term thoughts on Linux.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.