Sticky Notes (stickynotes-dabobroto) Package name

Sticky notes. That's it. That's the app.

No cloud. No account. No "AI note assistant." No spatial canvas you have to pan around just to find your grocery list. Just outrageously pretty notes that stick to your desktop and then get out of your way.

Oh, and the whole thing is about 28 MB installed — while the competition ships half an operating system just to show you a yellow square.

Nice to look at

• Frameless and rounded with soft drop shadows — it belongs on a desktop in 2026, not a 2006 panel
• Seven hand-picked themes: yellow, green, pink, purple, blue, gray, and a charcoal dark mode
• Glass-style floating buttons that quietly fade back when you're not using them
• Collapse any note to a tidy pill with a double-click — declutter without closing a thing

Nice to use

• Rich text: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and nested bullet lists (three bullet styles, because someone out there cares)
• Real keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+B/I/U, Ctrl+Shift+S, Ctrl+Shift+L, Tab to indent
• Notes name themselves from your first line until you decide otherwise
• Drag them anywhere, resize from any edge, open as many as you like
• Lives in the system tray with your latest notes a click away
• A two-click delete, so you never nuke a note by flinching

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

Where your notes live On your machine, in a plain local config file. No servers, no encryption ceremony, no "vault" to unlock — it's a sticky note, not a Swiss bank.

Free, tiny, and it does one thing properly.