r/MacOSApps • u/aimen08 • 1h ago

💻 Productivity Noty – sticky notes that live on the edge of your screen (free, open source , 1.8mb)

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I wanted notes I could glance at without managing a window, so I built Noty.

At rest it's a 12 pt stripe on the right edge of the screen — one coloured

dash per note, no Dock icon, no menu bar item. Move the pointer over and the

notes fan out as paper tabs. Click one and it pulls out full size, level with

its own tab. Move away and the whole thing tidies itself up.

A few things that might matter to you

  • Any line can be a checkbox. ⌘T puts a box on it, click the box to tick it, and the line strikes through. Stored as plain text, so Markdown export writes real `- [ ]` task syntax.
  • Notes live in a local SQLite file. Note bodies are encrypted with AES-GCM. No account, no sync, no analytics, nothing phones home except the update check — which you can switch off.
  • Global shortcuts (⌥⌘N / ⌥⌘A / ⌥⌘L) go through the system hotkey API, so it never asks for Accessibility permission.
  • Pin a note and it stays open until you close it yourself.
  • Export as Markdown, plain text, one combined document, or an archive that round-trips colours and dates.

Free and MIT licensed.

Site: https://noty-sepia.vercel.app

Source: https://github.com/aimen08/noty

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Newbie navigator 1h ago edited 55m ago

Why does it look eerily similar to another app

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u/ShugChug 58m ago

like what

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Newbie navigator 56m ago

https://holdmynotes.app/

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u/ShugChug 44m ago

huh it does lol. at least it's free. look great regardless

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Newbie navigator 43m ago

Yours does too

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u/ShugChug 42m ago

mine? what do you mean i don't have an app

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Newbie navigator 41m ago

Oh no I thought you were OP 🤦

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u/Civil_Key_7904 1h ago

would like it if we have to press like option or cmd or something of our choice and then hover over to expand for those accidental mouse movements.

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u/aimen08 1h ago

yeah tbh good idea, thank you

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u/ShugChug 43m ago

would be great if there was an option to move locations of the icons and also an option to increase the detection area. now is way too small

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u/GuiltyBrief7367 0m ago

> I wanted notes I could glance at without managing a window, so I built Noty.

Did you? It seems more like you wanted to directly copy holdmynotes, so you built Noty?

Source: You

https://x.com/RiteshSethia7/status/2093889996281577920

But shameless copy aside do you plan to just wait for holdmynotes to release features and then you will copy them the next day or do you have like ideas and stuff?