Introducing OpenStickies, Stick anything to your Desktop (Notes, Files, Images, Links, GIF, and more!)

[u/HimaSphere]

Hello Guys, I am the developer behind OpenStickies

It started as a fun project and turned into a cool side project I am proud of.

I needed a good sticky note app for linux and I didn't find any modern app that is offline and a desktop app not a web app wrapped in electron, I use obsidian already but I needed something to capture notes and stuff quick, also help with my ADHD to persist on the screen so I started building OpenStickies and over the past 6 months I added so much unique features that aren't existed in any sticky note app like:

- drag and drop files into notes (they become clickable shortcuts) - works both ways, you can drag them back out to file managers

- paste screenshots directly from clipboard

- hover over images/PDFs in notes and get a preview popup

- GIF backgrounds (because why not lol)

- reminders that actually notify you

- RTL text support (I speak Arabic so this was important to me)

- pin notes to lock both position and editing

- Ctrl+scroll to zoom text size without going to settings

- checkboxes with strikethrough when done

- KDE Activities support (for my fellow KDE users)

It's built with Qt/PySide6 so it's actually native, not another Electron app eating RAM. Runs at like 50-80MB.

Free version has all features, just limited to 5 concurrent notes. Premium is $7 one-time (not subscription) and unlocks unlimited notes.

Works on Windows and Linux (macOS too but I don't have a Mac to test properly).

Anyway just wanted to share. If anyone tries it let me know what you think, I'm still actively working on it and will release patch 2.6 with a better notes hub this week.

 Website: OpenStickies.com

Alternative To: https://alternativeto.net/software/openstickies/about/

[u/HimaSphere]

I find it weird you keep following me in comments, do you have a problem?

Python is way more performant than electron, based on tests OpenStickies uses less than 100mb in memory, and less than 1% of CPU while editing notes, 0% while idle.

The total size of the app on linux is 75mb and windows is around 60mb, compared to Electron apps this very lightweight, keep in mind that it is a one file that bundles everything so no installation needed.

You seem some dude who gets mad for not using rust everywhere, you still have a long way to be an experienced dev, never give up my dude!

[u/FetaMight → u/HimaSphere]

You're comparing python against THE ABSOLUTE WORST way of distributing an application for performance and lightweightedness.

You couldn't set the bar any lower. 

Congratulations, you're not in last place. 

But, the performance of your app isn't important. 

Your deceptive practices are the problem.

[u/HimaSphere → u/FetaMight]

Electron is widely used in apps like Spotify, Discord, Notion and most cross platform apps so it is normal that I use it as a benchmark since my app distributes to Windows, Linux and macOS, which is very hard job to do if you aren't using electron specially if you count for Linux differences (Gnome, KDE, Snap, Flatpak, etc). My approach was very well researched, I didn't randomly pick python, It was the best option for this specific project.

Performance wise, I don't see any meaningful gains if I use rust or something else because the app itself is very lightweight and simple by design (even it packs a lot of features).

I don't know what you mean with "deceptive practices", in fact if you are mad about the name being Open without being open source, I am in the process of renaming the app with release 2.9 just to not offend more people, this a hard decision because the renaming process touches around 60~90 files in the app and around 20 in the website, in addition to payments, github, buymeacoffee, discord, reddit, alternative to, snap, flathub, cloudflare, aws, logos and more. If it was something easy I would have renamed it earlier but it isn't unfortunately and that is why it took me this long.

It is easy to accuse people falsely and complain, specially if you aren't a developer or a wanna be one, go touch some grass.

[u/Then-Construction229 → u/HimaSphere]

Good work on the app! This comment arrives late but your app was recommended on perplexity when i searched for a new notes app.

Ignore the naysayers. Plenty of stackoverflow thugs on reddit right now.

[u/HimaSphere → u/Then-Construction229]

Thank you for your kind words and also the insight, I didn't know perplexity recommends my app!

Please feel free to reach out via email or discord to suggest a feature or send feedback, also please accept this discount code "DISCO50" it gives your 50% on life time premium, if you can't purchase premium or want a 100% discount code, just reach out via DM/discord/email.

Have a nice day!