What are Reddit's favorite Sticky Notes Apps?
Notational Velocity
Stickies
Whimsical
nvALT
Carnet
Microsoft Sticky Notes
PNotes
Note Board
Ideaflip
Simple Sticky Notes
Stormboard
Hyper Plan
7 Sticky Notes
Xpad
Makagiga
NoteFly
Kontact - KNotes
Top Reddit reviews mentioning Sticky Notes Apps:
LABELS!!!! Nowadays is back again to labels, best way to find curated music in the same vein of what you already like. Like a house tune, find more of the same artist, check what label it's on and then open a gazillion tabs checking the label's soundcloud (likely to repost stuff from similar related labels/artists), check the label's discogs page, then check related artists on the label, etc. All the knowledge is right there at your finger tips.
I also like themed mixes from artists I follow and then ID everything I like from a mix (annoying but requesting for IDs on mixes is totally cool IMO, if you're playing other artists' music you better let people know what you're playing, unless it's an unreleased track or whatever). I then repeat the same process above.
I also check vinyl listings on RedeyeRecords.co.uk or juno.co.uk everyday or every other day for new releases, listen to the previews and buy a thing or two or take notes (I use Stickies) to write down everything I might want to check has a digital release later or I want to illegally try to get my hands on, just being honest.
Other thing I do is follow curated YouTube channels... I like OOUKFunkyOO, Slav, Moskalus, Gazzz696, Stamp The Wax, Brazilian Rare Grooves... lots of great channels out there.
I like Notational Velocity. It's the most minimal interface I can find but the search is super powerful. Plus, you can store the notes as text files in your dropbox and get them everywhere! Not sure if it has word count but there are a few forks of it that probably do, such as nvAlt
When it boils down to it, I think Macs are popular on college campuses because they've got a proven track record of being reliable and unobtrusive, which is important when you're actually trying to sit down and get stuff done. It is just easier to be productive on a Mac, and that's very valuable when it comes to professional or academic pursuits. My school highly recommends that we purchase a new Macbook Pro as a freshman, with the assurance that it will last four years with comparatively little upkeep.
> Do macs have better note taking programs?
Depends on what your criteria is, but in my experience, Macs have some very solid productivity tools. I use Notational Velocity, but there are many great options. Evernote is one that a lot of people use, and you might consider looking into it for its cross-platform support(it's free and it works on Windows, OS X, iPhone, Android, etc.)
> OSX from what I've played with at the apple store looks primitive
OS X is every bit as advanced as any other modern operating system; don't let it fool you. The UI is designed to present the user with what is needed and nothing more. It is a mistake to assume that, because it is a simpler interface, it is inherently less powerful.
> I've gone 20 years with windows should I just stay?
I came from a DOS/Windows upbringing myself, and I worked in IT for several years. I switched to Mac a couple of years ago, and I've never looked back. Actually, that's not true — I've been forced to look back from time to time, and I've really come to hate Windows, after becoming accustomed to the intuitiveness, reliability and sleekness of OS X.
But, buying a Mac doesn't have to mean giving up Windows. In fact, Windows runs great on Macs. Believe it or not, there are even people who use Macs as predominantly Windows-based machines.
- Personas might help in setting your goals with real users in mind. I find this helpful often times.
- User-flows and touchpoints (maybe a sitemap as well)
- Paper sketches and then mid-fi wireframes
- Prototypes with wireframes to sort out the pain points.
- Then jump into sketch/Figma and do the final UI
Jumping straight into sketch is tempting and all the other steps look like a waste of time but I feel these steps are more like breaking down the product design into manageable modules that lead up to the final UI.
For user-flows you could try draw.io or whimsical.co (personal fav). For wireframes, maybe Balsamiq.
You could check out this program called Stickies, I currently use it and it works great. You can paste images, lock stickies, set labels, do a backup etc
Edit: woah, thanks for the gold! first one I ever got 👍🏼
I have one long-lived instance per project and many short-lived instances for quick edits.
Of note:
- I rarely use windows and tab pages even more rarely.
- Buffer count is irrelevant: 10 or 300, it makes no difference.
- I don't use tmux as I have no need for it.
- I don't use Vim for taking/managing/consulting notes as there are much better tools for that.
Eh, not to solve all of my problems with Vim, but I've found Notional Velocity for OSX to be pretty awesome for simple note taking and building a simple searchable DB http://notational.net/
Vim's modes are great for editing, but for just writing and searching text, building a simple DB, it doesn't seem too awesome without plugins. Emacs has org-mode and I've seen a few org-mode plugins for vim, a few wiki-style plugins for vim, but none seem to fit naturally for me.
I prefer Notational Velocity. I think it's a good choice if you don't set out to make perfectly written notes in a variety of categories, I just write notes whenever I need to and quickly want to dump them somewhere. NV is super spartan, but works really well for just writing stuff down fast with minimal markup and easy links to other notes.
Notational Velocity - Free text only writing tool - sync with Dropbox (or Simplenote) and use PlainText (or Simplenote) on your iOS device and you'll always have the latest version of your text on your devices.
I'm a big fan of Drafts, but on OS X I use nvALT, a fork of Notational Velocity.
It's not as powerful as Drafts in terms of sharing text I don't think, but I find it really quick for both writing a quick plain text note, as well as searching existing notes. I like the way that one keyboard shortcut (cmd+L) is used for both searching and creating.
I have it auto-save notes to Dropbox, and when on iOS I get Drafts to post notes to Dropbox as well, so the two apps work well together, for me anyway.
Notational Velocity. It's just a plain text editor, but it's great for taking notes and searching for them later. It also syncs with Simplenote, so you can sync notes between your PC and smartphone or whatever.
I use Byword on iOS, but I prefer nvAlt on the OS X end of things for searching for and creating notes. They work pretty well together, as they both sync to Dropbox.
Second this. Notational Velocity(or its cousin, nvALT) synced with Simplenote is a winning combo. Not only does it make creating notes a simple matter of typing what you want to say, it makes searching for your notes just as easy. There's also need to save anything — what you type is what gets recorded.
I use it for practically everything these days — to do lists, class notes, random ideas i don't want to forget, code snippets, cheat sheets for shortcut keys and whatnot, you name it. Sometimes, I'll even write up some of my more lengthy comments in nvALT, to be posted to reddit later. It's has all of niceties of carrying around a physical notepad combined with the niceties that computers bring — something like this should have existed decades ago.
nvALT adds supports markdown(and some other things), so you can do simple formatting the same you would on reddit and elsewhere around the web and output the completed product to HTML or even PDF. It's 100% compatible with NV, so if you're already using NV, it'll pick up your notes from its database, or if you prefer to store your notes as plain text(like me), just point nvALT to your notes folder.
It's seriously one of the best apps I've ever stumbled across.
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes, guys. Real classy.
You could either use Moo Windows Menu Plus to move the sticky notes to system tray (haven't tried myself) or Use a better alternative - Stickies
I use Stickies from Zhorn Software. It works really well, has all the features I need, and can even send notes to other computers. It's skinable, too.
Have you found Stickies? You can choose where to store the data, eg. in a Dropbox folder or whatever cloud service you use.
Or: 'Stickies can be transferred from one machine to another either over a TCP/IP network connection, or by using an SMTP mail server or MAPI client.'
Stickies: http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
basically sticky notes but much better. Customizable font and colors, hotkeys for making them appear and dissapear, make new ones, etc whenever you want. You can even set alarms on your stickies.
edit: oh yeah, most importantly it doesn't stick in your task bar, but moves to the tray instead >_>
Or you can make can get dropbox on your phone and PC and keep a .txt file you can look at whenever you want...
Whoops, sorry I missed your mention of RescueTime in the OP. Long day today. :)
I have Stickies on my Mac desktop. These are basically virtual post-its. You can put text or images in the notes, and they'll stay up until you decide to close them. Even if you reboot your computer, they'll still be around. It's a constant reminder of what you need to do, provided you set it up in the first place (totally painless). There's also a Windows version here.
Oh yes. I've been trying for a decade to figure out how to organize and follow up on all my lists. A close INFJ friend of mine pointed me toward Notational Velocity. My grand plan is to disgorge the knowledge stored in my head about how to do my job, various projects, recipes, etc. into this system. We'll see whether it actually works.
You're using Windows, but for people who came here and use MacOSX I love NV-Alt which is a fork and enhancement of Notational Velocity. It's a markdown-capable instantly-indexed cut&paste friendly notepad. I use it for storing little tips and tricks because it's so intuitively searchable and I simply put the saved files in my dropbox folder, so it's sync'd everywhere and the saved files play perfectly with Simplenote, IAWriter, Plaintext, etc etc.
Notational Velocity - cloud-syncable basic notes all built around search and speed use
Namely - An application launcher like quicksilver, but less features
I like ResophNotes better when using a pc and when using a mac Notational Velocity works exactly the same.
I used both Resoph and Cinta for a while, and felt Resoph more responsive. I also liked that Resoph can either sync with simplenote or save the notes as txt to sync with Dropbox. What made me stay with ResophNotes was whenever I saved snippets of code in a note it respected the tabs and spaces correctly.
The tagging feature in Cinta is better, and the UI looks great.
I prefer Cinta, Resoph and Notational to OneNote or Evernote cause they are lightweight and because their search and tagging features speed things up a lot (even with more than 3000 notes).
I recommend nvAlt over Notational Velocity. It's a fork with some nice extras, especially if you like to use markdown for your notes. Plus, the developer is pretty responsive to ideas.
You need NotationalVelocity, specifically the fork by Brett Terpstra called nvALT. It can sit in the menubar and have the window summoned by a system-wide hotkey. There's a drawer containing all of your notes, and activating the app and typing searches through notes and, if no note exist with the title you typed, pressing enter creates a new note with that title. It can sync to SimpleNote or Dropbox, as well. It also supports markdown and holding ctrl displays a markdown preview. I love this app SOOO much. Syncing it to Dropbox and Elements on iOS gives me access to all of my writing, automatically synced everywhere I go.
I've been keeping notes for about 2 years now. I'm always really paranoid about taking on new apps for note taking in case they stop working after some time, so I usually stick with plain text notes.
I like NVAlt on my mac - http://brettterpstra.com/project/nvalt/ which lets me sync to dropbox. On iOS, I use PlainText to edit those notes whenever I need something.
I'll play with it a bit though. I like the idea here of better video support. If it syncs and can be edited with other apps, I might be able to use it.
As a totally biased recommendation (I'm part of the team there), have a look at Ideaflip. It's basically a shared online board with sticky notes and few other elements like dots, tags and stickers - the simplicity sounds ideal for your use case? It's pretty easy to build whatever workflow you want, and you could have everyone drop in sticky notes with the topics they want to bring up, and then use the dots to do the dot voting. Let me know if it works for you!
I like to try to frame it as 'the team against the problem', not a conflict between team members. When the problem is something like a breakdown of communication between two people, or a clash of personalities, it's trickier. But you can still frame the problem as the dynamic between the people (i.e. external to them), rather than any person being a problem. Then make sure that everyone involved are now in conflict with the problem, which is actually your process or the dynamic that exists between people, not anybody personally.
(This is also the right way to approach conflicts in personal relationships in my experience. It's 'us vs the problem', not 'me vs you')
To quote what I wrote in a [recent blog post](https://ideaflip.com/blog/3/retrospectives/):
> A retrospective is not an opportunity to moan and complain about your teammates, or things you don’t enjoy. It’s a constructive, mutual feedback session, and the tone of the meeting needs to reflect this. Focus on more than just the negative aspects of your process, and also highlight and praise the things that are working well.
> Retrospectives are not about finding fault with people, they are about improving your process. Problems should be framed as the team against the problem, not teammates against each other. If you’re struggling to work with someone else, focus on the process around this, not the person themselves.
No problem! :)
Not really much on this machine, just got Adblock Plus, TamperMonkey (started with Greasemonkey on Firefox and still have that on my laptop) and just grabbed the first notepad-type app from the Chrome Web Store I found, which happens to be this (link to their website).
Hm... Digitally simulating the effect of a traditional work of art lying around your studio when it's in progress might not require printing, if you spend a lot of time on the computer when not drawing.
You could keep screenshots of your WIPs as your desktop background. Or put them in a Sticky Note or Transparent Collage that opens when you log in. You can even make them sit over of your other windows if you don't mind the intrusion.
Your question got me to wondering and I can't find it on my PC either. Used to be in System32 with a lot of other exes. If I type it in Start, however, it shows up and can be opened - no right click to Properties, though and nothing shows up in Roaming/Microsoft/ which is where Microsoft says the data should be, that there should be a StickyNotes folder in there and that is where the exe should be.
I use Everything search which usually can find Anything and no stikynot.exe to be found. There is a Microsoft.StickyNotes.exe in volume information but I can't access that.
Anyway, have you tried Zhorn stickies? I have been using them for decades. He keeps it updated and they are a zillion time more configurable than the inbuilt sticky app.
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>Pop-up cards: Every 20 minutes, you get a desktop notification
I use the free Stickies for any type of pop-up timer - including Anki:
Stickies by Zhornsoft. used it for a decade or so for notes at work. you can also set it up for messaging (good for sneaky chatting where skype is frowned upon)
I found Stickies free software and it does the same thing but better and with a lot of custom. I tried and it's perfect for me so maybe it can help you too :) http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/index.html
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
A seriously good app for remembering stuff. I personally use it to remind me about college shit, and I sued to have it pop up every monday when I did the Weekly Rant Threads.
you have described "stickies" perfectly:
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
free, sticky notes have no taskbar icon if you don't want, you can select a dropbox folder for the backups if you wish, notes can fade out of view, app itself is just a simple tray icon
I find this free program extremely helpful and easier to use than Window's "Sticky Notes". I use them every day at work to quickly copy/paste/store text around my monitors. Also, you can create a sticky, set it as an alarm, and it will sleep until you want it to pop-up.
Awesome, somebody else who uses sticky notes to remember what episode they're up to! You should try out a program called Stickies (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/download.html), it's far nicer than the built-in sticky notes.
I really like using whimsical.co. It's a lot prettier than draw.io, and I think the connections are easier to mess with. That being said, you won't be able to export to SVG like you can with draw.io -- you can only do PNGs I believe (though you can have a transparent background, which is nice)
Not sure I have an answer for you in terms of your setup, but I just wanted to recommend Whimsical.co for stuff like this. I mapped my setup pretty thoroughly and found it super easy to use and keep things organized. I didn't go and add pictures, but you could do that too.
Thanks, I actually found them all on Google, but I was looking for the exact same tool/ kit he used, including the wireframes and stuff. I really like the design. Others, such as Overflow, doesn't provide wireframes.
For an easier learning curve, you are going to have to sacrifice features. I've found two that work very nicely with this tradeoff:
https://whimsical.co (works REALLY well for flowcharts but also does wireframes)
https://marvelapp.com (awesome DEMO mode options)
definitely explored that avenue - but the app hasn't been supported in many years and there's no contact info on their official website http://notational.net, or ANYWHERE on the internet/forums that i can find.
if someone is able to dig up the contact info, please let me know.
Very cool idea and in fact it is quite similar to the note-taking system that I have developed using Atom and certain plug-ins for it. Certain suggestions for features that you could consider adding in the future which would, imo, make it the perfect note taking solution.
- Look up Notational Velocity ^1 and consider adding implementing its feature in your software.
- Develop certain Markdown macros [not sure if that is the right word] eg. one that creates a Table of Contents for your note file
Also, you can get further feedback for your product if you post here. ^2
Well it can't open plain text documents (I use Notational Velocity to sync & manage my notes), so I would have to open the text file in anoter application, copy the contents, paste into Outlinely & after finishing editing export as Markdown to save.
All that hassle instead of just pressing a hotkey to open the file in an editor that supports txt.
Im a big fan of nvalt, which is a newer incarnation of notational velocity. Not sure what features you need/want out of an app, but this ones worked for me for years.
I just read someone extolling the virtues of Notational Velocity, and am really tempted to switch over. It looks great, super-streamlined. Here's the writeup and here's their website.
In addition to my pen and paper, I use Notational Velocity on desktop and Simplenote on mobile, sync everything through Simplenote and I got all my notes synced throughout my phone, iPad, and two desktops. Only work/project notes though.
If you're on a Mac, Notational Velocity is pretty good for quick note-taking and finding.
You basically just give a "note" a quick title, and then type whatever the contents are. And then when you want to find/search the notes again, you can search via the titles, the note contents, etc. It's pretty minimal but also makes it very easy to find/filter your notes when you're trying to recall them. Give it a shot!
I started using Notational Velocity which syncs with SimpleNote for notes and things. I like it. I tried google tasks, but wasn't a fan. I'm currently using OmniFocus, but am playing around with Clear a little bit.
I've not done this but I read that Notational Velocity will import all your stickies. This may be a solution for you. I don't know about exporting them afterwards but maybe you won't need to.
I love Notational Velocity for notes.
It's Mac-only, but can sync with Dropbox and Simplenote and the notes are just plain text files. I don't know of any programs similar to Notational Velocity on Windows or Linux, but you can use the Simplenote website when your on those other platforms.
For Mac users who are heavy terminal users, check out 'Visor'. It gives you a customizable hot-key specified terminal window. It functions exactly like the 'console' in most games, except it's terminal!
I have it set up so I can just hit ctrl+~ and the terminal pops down (or up) wherever I've set it. Supports tabbing, spaces, and transparency.
** Requires SIMBL, see the above page for instructions.
Can't recommend this enough, I hate tabbing between windows to get to terminal.
Additionally I really like Notational Velocity. Perfect for small text snippets, INCREDIBLY fast and powerful search algorithm. You can search 1-2 characters in the middle of a massive string damn near instantaneously.
My current system is .txt files in dropbox, synced to a local folder twice daily. I used to use Evernote, but this is so much better in ways... (It may also help that I use Ubuntu mostly in the command line, so I edit my notes with vi. But you can still try it if that doesn't suit you.)
I'm also a big user of Notational Velocity on the mac (http://notational.net/) and Simple Note on iDevices: (http://simplenoteapp.com/)
Hope it helps.
Actually it's been quite a bit behind Notational Velocity for almost a month:
http://notational.net/releasenotes/release2/#b4
In fact, NValt currently isn't compatible with Notational Velocity at all due to so many missing features. And since nearly all the changes in NValt are cosmetic, there's really no point to it now.
nvAlt. Free.
There's also the Notes.app that's built into ^Mountain Lion, if you can bear the skeuomorphic legal pad design. It definitely seems to have been influenced by Notational Velocity, which nvAlt is forked from.
Edit: said Lion, meant Mountain Lion.
What this gentleman says: TexShop (Latex editor) for big projects, and LibreOffice/TextWrangler for the everyday stuff. Also: nvALT for simple note taking, but thats another topic.
Seems like the perfect place to apply either something like [PmWiki](www.pmwiki.org), Mediawiki or (for something more self-contained) nvAlt. In all of these, you can create links from one page to another and then have the linked page be a description, list, etc. nvAlt is particularly great for keeping track of stuff on your own machine, but I've also had great luck hosting project details on a (perhaps password-protected) mediawiki, so that my bosses have been able to view & edit things as we worked on them.
Good. Personally, I swear by nvALT. I seriously cannot recommend it highly enough. Virtually every task I take on for work, school or my personal life starts its life in nvALT. It's such a simple and obvious solution to taking notes that it's amazing that there hasn't really been anything like it until now. Some tips:
Sync your notes with SimpleNote. Support for this service is built into both Notational Velocity and nvALT, as well as many plain text editors for Android and iOS, so you can access your notes from anywhere.
I personally prefer nvALT over Notational Velocity because it has built in support for MultiMarkDown, which if you're not familiar is a very simple but powerful markup language(reddit uses a variation of this for its commenting system, so you might already have some familiarity with how it works). This gives you a straightforward path to taking plain text and translating it directly to HTML, PDF or some other rich text format.
Wow. There are lots of great ideas being offered. I use Carnet on Nextcloud (https://getcarnet.app/) to meet most of my note taking needs. But there is a real tension in two of your requirements. Specifically, private note taking and sharing can be competititve requirements. So here is my question: what kind of "shared notes" capability do you really need? You might be able to use Nextcloud Notes to meet your needs. But like Carnet, such solutions require you to implement your own private cloud (i.e., Owncloud/Nextcloud). Fundamentally, you really need to get shared notes off of someone else's infrastructure. That is the only way to radically improve your security/privacy.