LurkNotes keeps your notes on a narrow strip at the right edge of the screen — out of the way until you need them.
Hover the strip to unfold a fan of notes. Hover a tab to peek at its first lines, click to open the editor. Drag tabs to reorder the deck; edits autosave after 400 ms. Search filters the deck as you type, and deleting a note leaves a 10-second undo.
Everything is stored locally in a single JSON file, with a backup and recovery for a damaged file. No account, no network, no telemetry.
LurkNotes is a GTK4 application for Ubuntu 24.04 / GNOME 46. It runs as an X11 client under XWayland, which is what lets the deck stay above other windows, outside the dock and on every workspace. There is no native Wayland mode; an X11/XWayland session is required.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install Lurk Notes, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install lurknotes --edge
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit snapcraft.io now.