What alternatives for sticky notes are available?

Question

I like the Sticky Notes very much, they are always on the desktop.

But I can't find it in Ubuntu since 12.04. Other programs like gnotes & Xjournal are not giving a feature to stay on the desktop.

So, is there any application similar to the old sticky notes in Ubuntu?

Solution 1

1. Good news: you can have Sticky Notes in Ubuntu.

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:umang/indicator-stickynotes
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install indicator-stickynotes
   

2. If you'd also like to try an alternative, I can suggest XPad as well, which should be in the official repositories.

Solution 2

xpad deserves a try. Type in terminal:

sudo apt-get install xpad

Solution 3

Tomboy

This is a note taking app for your Linux which also works on Mac and Windows platforms.

Features:

• Making notes
• highlight text
• bulleting
• change fonts
• link to email addresses

... and much more.

To install:

sudo apt-get install tomboy

official site

Solution 4

My preferred one is xfce4-notes. To install:

sudo apt-get install xfce4-notes*

Solution 5

Try the following command. For me it worked on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

sudo snap install stickynotes

These are even better than the Windows stickynotes. You can arrange multiple notes as tiles and them access them individually as needed. You can color code them based on priority or just to identify them distinctly. They also have multiple options like:

• Adding video
• Adding audio
• Touch mode
• Import
• Export
• Spelling suggestions as you write

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Comments

[shiv garg]

use reminder note from here getremindernote.com

[Arthur Borsboom]

Xpad is currently maintained.

[insign]

this is not sticky...

[Dan]

@ArthurBorsboom OP may have been mistaken between xpad which is in the repos and the one for Apple's MacOS. The latter is in fact no longer supported: getxpad.com but just to point out that it seems to be a completely different software.

[Pratik Butani]

Where it is stored?

[Outlier]

this looks ugly and as @insign mentioned, it's not sticky

[jena]

Beware - I lost all my notes with this app! One day they disappeared and I never got them back :( I still have xml files in my drive but the app does not see them so I'm screwed. OT: does anyone know of a good xml parser to extract my notes from this pickle?

[jena]

sadly I couldn't make this work outside Xfce (e.g. in Unity or elementaryOS) - it won't show an icon anywhere unless you use xfce4-panel

[jena]

It worked great in the past, but in a few recent years it became riddled with bugs (e.g. it doesn't remember last open notes and opens them all every time it's launched, it also crashes when I close the last note (or use "close all")). @PratikButani the notes are stored in ~/.config/xpad

[sanjay mundhra]

Thank you !! Xpad works exactly what I was looking for .good application.

[Helen]

"acheter chat" :)

[MichaelX]

This app is awful, constantly freezes, notes sometimes disappear. Wouldn't recommend it.

[b_laoshi]

If anyone knows how, could you edit this post to include a link to or instructions for getting the xpad icon to show up in the unity panel?

[PlasmaBinturong]

@PratikButani The notes are stored in $HOME/.config/xpad.

[Yan King Yin]

Just tried it, and it supports Latex !! To me, that eliminates all other choices :)

[nessa.gp]

Ugly yes, but the one I was able to install at work where I can't change the repositories. So thank you.

[nessa.gp]

No hotkeys or shortcuts other than copy+paste, not even to make the font bold, or to underline, etc. Big turndown for me.

[Krease]

As a note for people coming in the future (speaking as someone who's used both of these) - stickynotes seems to have an issue where it keeps launching duplicate instances of itself and pollutes my system tray (among other annoyances) - xpad seems to just "work better".

[saurabheights]

Yep, sticky notes doesn't work with alt+tab. The moment you click on different window, it disappears. IMO, DO NOT INSTALL. Just 2 min ago installed xpad, works with Alt+Tab, allows visibility in all workspaces, maximizes, etc. Simple, works.

[cbloss793]

i second what people are saying. Do not install Sticky Notes. It's horrible. The default color is horrendous and there are no options. xpad works.

[Foreever]

To move the xpad, press ctrl and then move.

[nd23]

@Kevin How did you add inline image? I was not able to find a way to do that.

[Kevin Bowen]

I just added an exlamation mark. You can click on he edited link to see revisions

[TravelTrader]

Great tool. Thanks. Is there a possibility to pin it on top of all other windows?

[Moyo Freeman]

Send a sample of the todo.txt contents.

[Heisenberg]

I can't add text to the sticky. This is pretty bad

[chx101]

@Heisenberg I usually avoid snap packages. The majority of snap packages that I install on my computer don't work.

[vijayakumarpsg587]

just what I was looking for. Perfect. thank you