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SideStick
Sticky notes for your desktop that never get lost.
- Pin a note to Chrome, VS Code, or any program you use
- Ctrl+Alt+N for a new note, from anywhere, any time
- Search every note, and bring back anything you deleted
- A spare copy in your own OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive
Weeknight pasta
2 cloves garlic, sliced thin
Chili flakes, more than feels safe
Lemon zest at the very end
Newsletter lines
"Ship notes, not survivors"
"What actually shipped this week"
Grocery run
✓Bananas
✓Coffee beans
Oat milk
Tape, for the boxes
What it does
The note is exactly where you left it.
Most sticky-note apps dump every note on your desktop at once. SideStick knows which program you're looking at, so it only shows the notes that belong there - and gets out of the way the moment you switch.
Notes that know your apps
- Pin a note to a program - Chrome, VS Code, Word, anything
- It shows only while that program is in front
- Go further: tell a program's own tabs or documents apart
- A note with nothing pinned shows up everywhere
Global hotkeys
- Ctrl+Alt+N starts a new note from anywhere
- Ctrl+Alt+F searches every note you have
- Ctrl+Alt+H hides or brings back everything at once
- Every hotkey can be changed to whatever you like
Rich text & pictures
- Bold text and clickable checkboxes with a strikethrough
- Paste a picture, click the picture button, or drag one in
- Resize a picture by dragging its corners
- Copy a picture back out, or save it to a file
Make it yours
- Seven note colours to keep things sorted at a glance
- Plain, Lined, Crumpled, Parchment or Torn-edge paper
- Make any note see-through, to see what's behind it
- "Tidy up" straightens every note into a neat grid
Find anything
- One search box across every note, in every program
- Deleted notes stick around for 30 days
- Restore a deleted note with one click
- Undo puts a note back exactly where it was
Never lose a note
- A safety copy is kept automatically as you type
- A spare copy in your own OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive or iCloud
- Nothing to sign into - just point it at a folder
- Set up a new computer from that spare copy in two clicks
Reminders & staying put
- Set a reminder on any note
- Pin a note always-on-top so it can't get buried
- Every note remembers exactly where you left it
- Works the same across multiple monitors
Built for the background
- Starts with Windows, lives quietly in the tray
- Never steals focus from whatever you're doing
- Gets out of the way of full-screen apps and games
- Works fully offline - nothing leaves your computer
The full list
Everything in SideStick.
A single install for Windows. No account, no cloud service of its own - the only place your notes go is the folder you choose yourself.
- Pin any note to a specific program
- Notes for other programs stay out of the way
- Tell a program's own tabs or windows apart
- Manual override: go by the window title instead
- A rename in the other program is followed automatically
- Undo a note that landed in the wrong place
- Unpinned notes show up everywhere
- Global hotkey for a new note
- Global hotkey to search everything
- Global hotkey to hide or restore every note
- Every hotkey is fully rebindable
- Bold text and other basic formatting
- Clickable checkboxes with a strikethrough
- Bulleted lists
- Paste a picture straight into a note
- Drag a picture in from a folder
- Paste from Word or a web page, pictures included
- Resize a picture by dragging its corner
- Copy a picture back out, or save it to a file
- Seven note colours
- Five paper looks: Plain, Lined, Crumpled, Parchment, Torn
- A see-through mode for any note
- "Tidy up" arranges every note into a neat grid
- One-click undo after tidying up
- Search across every note, in every program, at once
- Recently deleted notes kept for 30 days
- Restore a deleted note with one click
- An automatic local safety copy as you type
- A spare copy kept in a folder you choose
- One-click buttons for OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud
- Nothing to sign into for the spare copy
- Bring every note back on a new computer
- Reminders on any note
- Pin a note always-on-top
- Notes remember exactly where you left them
- Correct behaviour across multiple monitors
- Starts automatically with Windows
- Lives in the system tray, not the taskbar
- Never takes focus away from what you're doing
- Steps aside for full-screen apps and games
- Works completely offline
- Single install, single instance
A look inside
How it works.
SideStick doesn't have screenshots online yet, so these are illustrations of the real screens, drawn from how the app actually looks and works.
📌 Pinned to Chrome
Weeknight pasta
2 cloves garlic, sliced thin
Chili flakes, more than feels safe
Lemon zest at the very end
🔍 grocer
Everywhere
Grocery run
Oat milk · Coffee beans
Chrome - recipes
Weeknight pasta
2 cloves garlic…
Recently deleted
Old standup notes
Deleted 6 days ago
Plain
Lined
Crumpled
Parchment
Torn
Spare copy
Keep a spare copy
OneDrive\SideStick backup
Windows app
Works fully offline
Spare copy goes to your own cloud folder
Starts with Windows, lives in the tray
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