Sticky Notes
The lightest, prettiest sticky notes app on Linux. No cloud, no nonsense.
Frameless, rounded notes that stick to your desktop and then get out of your way. About 26 MB installed, with no account, no sync and no telemetry. In use by 2,800+ users in 130+ countries.
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sudo snap install stickynotes-dabobroto
Nice to look at
Frameless and rounded, with soft drop shadows Seven themes: yellow, green, pink, purple, blue, gray and a charcoal dark mode Glass-style floating buttons that fade back when you are not using them Collapse any note to a tidy pill with a double-click
Nice to use
Rich text: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, nested bullet lists and checklists Real keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+B/I/U, Ctrl+Shift+S, Ctrl+Shift+L, Tab to indent Pin a note always on top (X11 and XWayland) Notes name themselves from your first line until you rename them Drag anywhere, resize from any edge, open as many as you like Lives in the system tray, with your latest notes a click away Starts at login and quietly restores your notes; switch it off in Settings
What it deliberately does not do
Sync to a cloud you never asked for Make you create an account to write the word "milk" Phone home, track you, or ship a single line of telemetry Pretend to be a wiki, a knowledge base, or your second brain
Your notes live on your machine, in a plain local config file.
How it's built
Python and PyQt6, packaged as a strictly confined Snap on core24. The source is on GitHub under the MIT licence; issues and pull requests are welcome.
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