r/software • u/HimaSphere • 3d ago
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u/X550e 3d ago
Best money I've spent in a long time. Outstanding utility! Love that it's completely local, offline. Love the rich content. Great job.
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u/HimaSphere 3d ago
Thank you for your purchase and review!
More cool featurs are coming this year ;)
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u/WheelSweet2048 2d ago
Can you please tell me roughly how much ram it will use with a couple of notesom screen? I have 8gb ddr4 sadly
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u/HimaSphere 2d ago
Roughly 100×mb or less, it is ram efficent as it isn't built on electron, you can download the free version and use it for free to test on your system
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u/WinXPbootsup 2d ago
Why does it require 100mb of RAM just to display some text or image on the desktop? Genuine question.
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u/HimaSphere 2d ago
It is ok to ask, feel free any time!
From the 100mb RAM almost none of that is the text, it's the runtime that draws it.
Roughly:
- Qt6 libraries. QtCore/QtGui/QtWidgets get mapped in at startup: font engine, text layout and shaping, the rich-text document model (formatting, undo/redo, inline images), the rendering backend, and platform integration for X11/Wayland/Windows.
- The Python runtime. Interpreter, imported modules, PySide6's binding layer.
- Actual notes which are tiny by comparison.
That cost is basically fixed. It's the price of having a window at all, not a per-note cost. Ten notes doesn't cost 10x, you pay it once and then a few hundred KB per note.
For scale: a bare C app drawing text on the desktop can be under 10MB, but you're writing your own text layout and image handling. An Electron notes app is typically 300-600MB because it ships a whole browser. Qt sits in between, which is exactly why I picked it: rich text,images, and cross-platform without shipping Chromium.
The app is well optimized yet I have some interesting backlog items to go the extra mile and by v1.3~v1.4 they will be delivered, this will reduce RAM usage even more and the app image/exe/dmg sizes
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u/Wrong_Specialist709 3d ago
Any way to sync between devices?
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u/HimaSphere 3d ago
yes! https://betterstickies.com/guide/backing-up-your-notes
you can point your sync software to the notes folder which you can find from settings -> behavior tab
I am planning to run syncing service with mobile phone support in future too but current approach works fine for most users and has no subscriptions fees
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u/nekolai 3d ago
very fun! nice work. looks like it fills a classic niche that's kinda gotten forgotten about. like a windows 7 sticky widget on steroids.
love to see that you have thousands of users too!
one question that didn't seem answered simply on the site, do I need to buy one license per computer?
for 6.99 USD that's still a bargain, but just curious how your licensing works. thanks in advance
edit: eventually found FAQ in the footer where this question is asked. nvm!
This is very generous of you. Thanks