Changelog

A curated list of notable changes and improvements in each release.

v1.2.1

A hotfix release, shaped by user feedback on v1.2. Launching the app while the hub is hidden now brings the hub back, reminders retry instead of getting lost, and a round of fixes lands across Show Desktop on Windows, window stacking on Cinnamon, images, and settings.

New
  • Starting the app again brings the hub back. When the hub is hidden in the system tray, launching BetterStickies from the taskbar, Start menu or launcher used to say it was already running; on Windows 11 the tray icon usually sits behind the overflow arrow, so it was easy to conclude the app was broken. The new launch now hands off to the running app and the hub reappears, with the extra copy closing itself quietly. The "already running" message still appears when the running copy genuinely cannot be reached: while it is still starting up, if it has stopped responding, or sometimes when the two were installed in different package formats.
  • Linux: a show-hub command. betterstickies-cmd.sh show-hub asks the running app to show the hub, so it can be bound to a desktop keyboard shortcut. It also doubles as a recovery path when the hub is hidden and the desktop has no system tray. The helper script in the configuration folder now updates itself when the app starts, so upgrading is enough to get the new command. Not available in the Snap and Flathub builds.
Changed
  • A caution about syncing the data folder across computers. Syncing it with your own cloud service still works, but use BetterStickies on one computer at a time until a planned storage update. The whole note collection lives in a single file, so if two computers edit notes at once, the sync service can settle the clash by replacing that file and one computer's changes overwrite the other's. The "Backing Up Your Notes" guide now describes the safe routine.
Fixed
  • On Linux Mint and other Cinnamon desktops, notes no longer float above every other application once the hub is open. They still stay out of Alt+Tab, and windows stack normally again: always-on-top notes stay on top, the rest go behind whatever you are working in.
  • Windows: notes no longer disappear for good after Show Desktop or Win+D. They now restore themselves without stealing focus, so you still get the desktop, just with the sticky notes on it. Hiding notes deliberately is unchanged.
  • A reminder whose notification cannot be shown is no longer lost. It stays armed and retries every minute, including after a restart, instead of counting as delivered the moment it was attempted.
  • Quitting any way other than the tray's Exit no longer risks losing your last edits or forgetting where you put the hub. Every quit now runs the same cleanup.
  • An image set to Medium or Small now keeps that size after you restart the app. Existing images are converted automatically at the size they were shown.
  • Photos dragged in from a phone or camera are no longer inserted sideways. Their embedded rotation is applied before the image is stored.
  • Theme, language, notification, image and keyboard-shortcut settings can no longer be corrupted by a crash mid-save.
  • Re-picking an image's current size no longer adds an invisible step to the undo history.
  • TXT and Markdown exports now use the same wording for their headers, and an untitled page reads "Page 2" instead of "Page: Page 2".
v1.2.0

A note is no longer a single sheet. This release adds pages behind tabs, search that reads every one of them, an image lightbox, and a hub that can stay out of your way. It also carries a long round of fixes across formatting, file shortcuts, dates, translations, and Linux desktop integration.

Before you downgrade

If you go back to an older version after using note tabs, opening and saving a tabbed note there permanently removes its other pages. Older builds understand only one page per note: they will show the page that was open and, the next time that note is saved, write it back as the whole note. The other pages are not recoverable afterwards, not from Trash, and not by upgrading again.

If you plan to downgrade, export any multi-page notes first (Menu → Export handles all pages), or copy their other pages into notes of their own.

New
  • Note Tabs: up to three pages per note. Add a page from the Add Page button in the note's footer (or its right-click menu) and a slim tab strip appears, one tab per page. A shopping list, a set of meeting notes and a scratchpad can share one window instead of three. Each page keeps its own text, scroll position and undo history. Tabs name themselves after the first line and rename as you type; double-click to pin a name of your own, and drag to reorder. Notes you already have are untouched and show no tabs at all. The strip only appears once you add a second page, and disappears again when you close back down to one. Closing a page moves it to Trash as a note you can restore, so nothing is ever thrown away.
  • Page shortcuts (Ctrl+PgDown / Ctrl+PgUp / Ctrl+Shift+N): Move to the next and previous page, or add a page to the note you're in. All three appear under a new Pages section in Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts and can be rebound or switched off.
  • Search reads every page: Search used to see only the page a note happened to be showing, so anything on your second and third tabs was invisible to it. It now covers every page of every note, including hidden notes and pages you have never opened. A note matching on two pages appears as two results, each labeled with its note and tab name (Groceries › Weekend), and opening one takes you to that page with every occurrence tinted in the note's own color. The highlight is purely visual and never becomes part of the note.
  • Double-click an image to enlarge it: Double-click an inline image (or right-click and choose Open Image) to open it centered at original resolution, scaled down only if it is bigger than your screen. Small text in pasted screenshots becomes readable without resizing the note. Dismiss with Esc, Space, Enter, a click anywhere, or by switching windows.
  • Start with the hub hidden: Hiding the hub used to last only until you quit. A new Start with the hub hidden option in Settings → Appearance keeps it in the system tray from launch, so BetterStickies can sit quietly in the background. This is particularly useful if you add it to your startup applications. Notes still open as normal.
  • Microsoft Store in-app purchase: Premium can be bought and activated inside the app on the Store build, without leaving for the website
  • A banner confirms when Premium has been activated, so it is clear the purchase went through
Changed
  • The free version now has exactly one limit: the separate caps on reminders and animated GIF backgrounds are gone, so you can set both on every note you have. What remains is a shared budget of 4 slots, with each extra tab using one. Existing users over the limit lose nothing: extra notes become read-only, and deleting a note (or closing a tab) unlocks them again
  • Reminders are now a strip on the note instead of a chip in your text: a reminder used to sit inside your content as a small image, so it could be selected, copied and deleted like ordinary text. It now has its own row between your text and the footer, so it cannot be edited away by accident, never lands in an export, and never travels with copied text. The footer bell shows its status by color, and Edit and Remove live in the reminder's own menu. Existing reminders are migrated automatically
  • The footer steps out of the way while you type: the formatting row used to sit on top of the line you were writing. It now stands down as you type and returns the moment you move the mouse. Arrow keys and shortcuts do not hide it
  • A color picker built for the app: about half the size of the old one and identical on KDE, GNOME and Windows. It offers a grid of 40 colors, a row of your recent picks, a saturation and brightness square with a hue slider, and a hex field. It works fully from the keyboard and announces itself to screen readers, and unlike the old one it is translated into all 11 languages
  • File shortcuts use crisp, theme-matched icons instead of emoji: file types are recognized the way your file manager recognizes them, so images, audio, archives, documents, programs and source code each get their own icon, where 42 common types used to collapse to a single paperclip. The icon is no longer part of the shortcut's name, so it stops turning up in exports, search results and reminder titles. Shortcuts you already have keep working; drag the file in again for the new look
  • A Help window replaces the first-run guide notes: it never counts against the note limit, so a new free user starts with the whole allowance. It shows the app's real button icons rather than emoji stand-ins, covers this release's features, and names the shortcut you actually have bound, saying nothing about one you have switched off
  • All dialogs share one visual design system: the same spacing grid, type scale and flat button style everywhere, with destructive actions (Delete Forever, Empty Trash, Remove Image) shown in red so they are recognizable before you click. Search and Reminders get card-style tables with whole-row hover, and Reminders shows status as tinted pills with a count summary ("3 overdue · 5 upcoming")
  • The app introduces itself as "Better Stickies": window titles, the hub, tray tooltips, About and Help, launcher entries and store listings, in all 11 languages. Nothing technical changes: your data, launchers and scripts keep working untouched
  • Text copied between notes adopts the destination note's style: plain text takes on the destination's font, size and color instead of dragging the source note's along. Deliberate styling such as custom colors, highlights, titles, links and code blocks still travels. Text copied into other applications lands in that app's own defaults
  • The footer color button is purely a highlight tool: it now colors only what you select or type next, exactly like the bold button. A note's default text color is changed in Note Settings only
  • You can now donate by PayPal: buy Me a Coffee and PayPal sit side by side. Community → Reddit opens r/BetterStickies, and Developed by links to the developer's Reddit
  • Menus and dialogs use themed icons instead of emoji: emoji rendering depended on whichever font your system had, and looked different or broke across platforms
  • Button labels are no longer heavy: button text was bold everywhere, which read as noticeably heavier than intended with some desktop fonts
  • The hub's font setting is labeled "Hub Font": it used to say "UI Font", which suggested it changed the whole interface when it only ever set the hub's own font
  • Arabic: the app is called Better Stickies. The Arabic interface titled the hub and tray icon with a generic "sticky notes" while note windows already used the product name
  • The Insert Link window has been tidied up: the two fields are now the same width and the window is smaller for it. Whether an address is usable is still obvious, but the field only turns red once you click away, instead of flashing at every half-typed address
  • The Snap launcher entry and the Flathub listing are fully localized: launcher search keywords were expanded too, across AppImage, Snap, Flatpak and Arch (sticky notes, post-it, memo, checklist, to-do)
  • The user guide has been refreshed: two new pages, Note Tabs and Pasting Content, cover features that had no documentation at all, and Getting Started is now a genuine overview that links out instead of re-teaching every topic
  • ⚠️ Hand-wired KDE shortcuts need updating: the app's D-Bus service name changed from org.betterstickies.App (path /org/betterstickies/App) to com.betterstickies.BetterStickies (path /com/betterstickies/BetterStickies). The bundled command script and the app's own global shortcuts were updated automatically, but a KDE custom shortcut wired by hand against the old name has to be pointed at the new one
  • Windows: cleaner Task Manager grouping. The note window title and the executable's file description now carry the product name instead of generic text
Improved
  • Notes, reminders and trash are all protected the same way: automatic backup copies and safe writes now cover every kind of data the app stores, not just notes, with daily snapshots as a longer-term net. A damaged, truncated or emptied file is set aside as a rescue copy instead of overwriting the last good version
  • Every date in the app reads in your language: note headers, search results, reminders and exports now use your own month names, your region's clock, and the day and month in the order your language writes them. They used to be English month names on an English 12-hour clock, with a month-first short form that reads as the wrong date nearly everywhere outside the United States
  • Exported files are no longer half in English: the header, the Created and Modified labels, page headings and the image list all follow your app language
  • Titles, fonts and colors stay in proportion permanently: text that is not deliberately styled now follows the note's font, size and default color, including across restarts. Titles scale with every font change instead of freezing at whatever size the note had when they were created. Font changes are instant now, even on large notes
  • Long to-do lines wrap under their own text: this works at every nesting level and in right-to-left notes, and the alignment keeps up when you change the note's font. Existing checklists pick it up automatically
  • The system tray guidance is translated, including the instructions for desktops without a usable tray. That is the one moment the app refuses to do what you asked, which is exactly when you need to be able to read it
  • Hover popups have properly rounded corners and sharp previews: image and PDF previews are decoded at your screen's real pixel density, and a file edited on disk shows its updated preview rather than a stale one
  • Link hover tooltips no longer cut off long addresses: long addresses and paths wrap and show in full
Fixed
  • The Export and Choose Background Image windows are readable again. On some systems they opened as an almost entirely black panel, with the folder list, file name and column headings invisible
  • The "Premium Version" heading in About is readable in the light theme
  • Deleting a note no longer skips the confirmation when it looks blank. A note you gave a title but have not typed into is no longer deleted silently either.
  • Markdown export no longer lists every screenshot twice, once inline and again under Images. Only images the export did not already embed are listed
  • Pasting Markdown over selected text no longer swallows the formatting. Task lists, fenced code and tables all convert whether or not you paste over a selection
  • Read-only notes are genuinely read-only. Dragging in a file, Ctrl+scroll, flipping text direction, renaming a link and renaming the title are all refused, and controls that would do nothing are grayed out
  • Locked notes no longer toggle checkboxes when clicked
  • A ☐ or ☑ in the middle of a line no longer hijacks clicks. Only a checkbox leading its line toggles
  • The Todo button no longer drops a checkbox into code blocks
  • Checking off the last task in a nested list no longer leaves an indented leftover line
  • Undoing a ticked-off task now takes one step instead of two
  • Pasted checklists line up straight away, instead of only after the note is reopened
  • Text pasted with a hanging-indent style, such as bibliographies and citation lists, no longer sticks out past the note's edge
  • Code blocks in reopened notes work again without touching them first, follow the app theme across restarts, and survive deleting into their edges
  • Markdown export keeps code blocks intact, as proper fenced blocks with their content verbatim
  • Enter at the end of a title no longer leaves hidden heading formatting behind, and a title turned back into normal text no longer returns after a restart
  • Applying Note Settings no longer wipes formatting from selected text
  • Formatting buttons now toggle off anywhere in styled text, and light up accurately for the selection
  • "Auto" theme now gives light-system users light code blocks and dialog accents
  • Undo right after opening a note can no longer revert its setup
  • Dragging a file shortcut inside its own note now moves it instead of leaving a duplicate
  • Dropping a file onto an existing shortcut no longer breaks that shortcut in two
  • "Remove Link" no longer deletes the first word of the link's text, and now removes the shortcut's styling along with the link
  • Renaming a link no longer loses its icon, and a link with mixed formatting inside it no longer comes back mangled
  • A file name containing < is no longer corrupted, and can no longer be used to disguise a link to somewhere else
  • Copying a file shortcut no longer pastes a stray box, or a broken image, in front of the name
  • Text typed after a link no longer arrives as an empty link when pasted into a Markdown editor
  • Pasting a file over selected text now replaces it, as paste does everywhere else
  • Dropped images that cannot be read no longer vanish without a trace. You always get a shortcut to the original
  • Dropping a file the app cannot reach now explains how to grant access, once per drop rather than once per file
  • Files on Windows network shares work again
  • Tooltips no longer swallow parts of your own text. A note titled "Fix the &lt;div&gt; parsing bug" showed as "Fix the parsing bug"
  • The explanation on a read-only note is finally readable. It was being wiped the instant you moved the mouse onto the note
  • A pinned note no longer offers to rename its title and then refuse
  • Checkboxes and radio buttons in settings windows have their tick and dot back
  • Note shortcuts no longer fire while you are renaming a note's title. Ctrl+Shift+V used to paste into the note behind the rename box, and Ctrl+K discarded the rename in progress.
  • Confirming "Exit Better Stickies?" now actually exits. It previously closed only the hub bar, leaving the app running with no way to reach it
  • Closing the hub can no longer hide it into a tray that is not there any more
  • Starting BetterStickies when it is already running now tells you so, and points you at the tray icon
  • Creating a note with a global shortcut no longer pops the hub open, and the new note takes keyboard focus so you can type immediately
  • Holding down a global shortcut no longer creates a burst of notes
  • Global shortcuts that fail to register now say why, such as "already in use by another application" or "needs a modifier such as Ctrl, Alt or Shift"
  • More keys work as global shortcuts (Space, arrows, Home/End, Page Up/Down, Insert/Delete, Enter, Tab, Esc), and a shortcut with no modifier is refused up front instead of silently discarded
  • Rebinding a shortcut no longer breaks "Reset to Defaults", and buttons and paste messages now show the shortcut you actually configured
  • A shortcut switched off in a synced settings file stays off, as does every other saved on/off value, including a note's pinned state, the reminder sound, and snap-to-grid
  • Notes and the hub no longer vanish after a monitor change, including when only an ungrabbable sliver is left on screen
  • Resizing a note no longer stops at an invisible wall at a monitor seam or panel edge
  • KDE: notes no longer clutter the taskbar and Alt+Tab, and no longer depend on a command-line tool that is not part of Plasma
  • Other Linux desktops (GNOME, XFCE): notes are marked as accessory windows, which window lists conventionally skip
  • Windows 11: notes and the hub no longer sit inside a gray frame
  • Windows: notes can be dragged by their edges again, and hovering an inactive note reliably shows its title bar
  • Windows: notes containing non-ASCII text no longer risk a startup crash
  • Snap: reminders now actually make a sound
  • Logging out, or quitting with Ctrl+C, no longer risks losing your last edit
  • Double-clicking the system tray icon no longer misbehaves
  • The reminder-creation dialog, the keyboard shortcuts window, the text color button's swatch names and a dozen other strings now actually translate. They had never reached translators at all
  • The backup-recovery notice speaks your language and follows your theme
  • Deleting all notes no longer re-triggers first-run onboarding
  • Trash restore errors are reported accurately instead of guessing at the cause
  • Nested checklist indentation now scales with the note's font
  • Always-on-top persists immediately, instead of waiting for some other change to save it
  • Screenshots from very old deleted notes no longer pile up on disk forever
  • A damaged or hand-edited notes file can no longer make the app request huge amounts of memory
  • The license text now ships with the app, readable at the root of the AppImage, next to the app in the Snap, and in the standard system location on Arch
  • Wayland: the app shows its own icon and groups reliably in the taskbar. AppImage, Snap and native package installs used to fall back to a generic icon
Removed
  • The color picker's screen eyedropper (it does not work under Wayland) and its "Add to Custom Colors" wells, whose job the automatic recent-colors row now does
  • The Insert Link preview box, which took up a third of the window to show you the text you had just typed
v1.0.0

OpenStickies is now BetterStickies

A note on the name change

This release started as OpenStickies v3. It is shipping instead as BetterStickies v1.0.0.

I changed the name because OpenStickies kept leading some people to think the app was open source. That was never the intent, and I never wanted the name to imply something the project was not. But if the confusion keeps happening, it is my job to clean it up. BetterStickies is clearer, closer to how apps are usually named, and removes the ambiguity.

The rebrand touched more than I expected: config paths, packaging, store listings, the website, GitHub repo, payment provider, Discord, logo, Buy Me a Coffee, email addresses, domains, and plenty of smaller things. It was not a fun migration, but it is the right foundation for the app going forward.

Your notes, settings, and reminders migrate automatically.

New
  • Rich text paste: pasting from emails, web pages, and documents preserves bold, italic, links, lists, and highlights while normalizing fonts and sizes to match your note
  • Markdown paste: pasting markdown text auto-converts headings, bold, italic, links, task lists, and code blocks into rich formatting
  • Quick Capture (Ctrl+Alt+V): global shortcut to create a new note pre-filled with whatever's on your clipboard (text, HTML, or screenshots)
  • Show on all virtual desktops: notes automatically follow you across all desktops on Windows and KDE Plasma, no configuration needed
  • Redesigned reminders: visual chips, quick presets (30min/1h/3h/Tomorrow 9AM), right-click to edit or remove, and a single grouped notification on launch shows all overdue reminders
  • Reminder edit flow: new Edit button in the reminders dialog updates the reminder in place without deleting and recreating it
  • Color-coded bell icon shows reminder status at a glance (green/orange/red); clicking it on a note with an existing reminder shows a management menu instead of the creation presets
  • Ctrl+R opens the date/time picker directly, faster for keyboard users
  • Clear Formatting (Ctrl+\): strip all formatting from selected text back to the note's defaults
  • Sync-safe data storage: notes and reminders now live in a dedicated data/ subfolder you can point Dropbox or OneDrive at without syncing machine-specific config
  • Skip delete confirmation: optional setting to delete notes without the confirmation dialog
  • Smart paste toast: brief notification after auto-detected pastes showing what happened and how to undo
  • Structured logging: rotating log file and --verbose flag for troubleshooting
Changed
  • Rebranded from OpenStickies to BetterStickies: new name, new icon, safe migration of existing config
  • Hub redesign: dark glass background with drop shadow, high-contrast green text, visible note count shows only unhidden notes
  • One reminder per note: each note supports exactly one active reminder; existing notes with multiple reminders are automatically migrated
  • RTL direction is now note-level: toggling RTL switches the entire note at once, matching Windows Sticky Notes and Google Keep behavior
  • KDE Activities: notes appear on all Plasma Activities automatically (no more per-note assignment menu)
  • New notes no longer float above all windows by default
  • Trash keeps up to 300 notes with no time limit (previously 100 notes with 30-day auto-delete)
  • System tray notification only shows once on first hide instead of every time
  • Payments now go through Lemon Squeezy, which adds more payment options for people in more countries.
  • Premium users now get a golden app icon.
  • The logo has been refreshed to feel more playful and closer to what the app is about.
Improved
  • About dialog redesigned with clean SVG icons for links and a streamlined layout
  • Faster startup: hidden notes defer content loading until shown
  • Smoother typing: reduced per-keystroke work for RTL detection and reminder scanning
  • Live preview sliders: opacity and line spacing update the note in real-time as you drag
  • Note Settings dialog opens beside the note instead of covering it
  • Search dialog shows 4 results instead of 3, sorts by last modified, and has a more compact layout
  • Reminders dialog redesigned as a flat sorted list with colored status dots and sortable columns
  • HiDPI toolbar icons render at native resolution on high-DPI displays
  • Deleted notes show content preview on hover in the Trash dialog
  • Notification sounds now work reliably in Snap and Flatpak sandboxes
Fixed
  • Notes now pin correctly to all desktops on KDE Plasma 6.3+ and on non-English locales
  • Pasting rich text with line breaks no longer lands as one giant paragraph
  • Pressing Enter after a formatted checkbox line no longer carries bold/link formatting into the new line
  • Clear Formatting no longer strips links, only visual formatting is removed
  • Line spacing changes now apply to existing text and persist across restarts
  • Closing a note from the taskbar no longer makes it disappear. It hides properly
  • App no longer hangs on exit under GNOME/Wayland
  • Code blocks update colors correctly when switching themes
  • Restarting after a crash reclaims the D-Bus service without needing a reboot
  • Wayland app identity fixed: taskbar icons, Alt+Tab grouping, and compositor rules now work regardless of how the app is launched
  • "Modified" timestamp no longer updates from hide/show, drag, or pin actions. Only real edits count
  • RTL notes now restore their direction correctly when loaded from a hidden state
  • Clearing all text in an auto-detected RTL note resets direction back to LTR for the next input
  • Settings dialog no longer truncates labels at standard DPI or with longer translations
  • Pasting into existing code blocks no longer creates extra line spacing gaps
  • Hub window now shrinks correctly after hidden notes are removed
  • Audio backend crash fixed on systems using Qt 6.11+ with the FFmpeg multimedia backend
  • Object replacement characters (U+FFFC) no longer appear in note titles, search results, or exports
Removed
  • Per-note "Show on All Desktops" toggle: notes always appear on all desktops now; the opt-out has been removed
  • "Reset All Defaults" button from the Settings dialog

Formerly OpenStickies

The releases below shipped under the app's previous name, OpenStickies. Version numbers restarted at 1.0.0 with the rename to BetterStickies.

OpenStickies v2.8.0

Inline Images, IME Support, Collapsible Notes & Nested Todos

New
  • Inline image display: pasted and dropped images render directly in notes with resize options (Full, Medium, Small) and WebP compression
  • Collapse notes to header-only view to save screen space. Use the new arrow toggle in the header, works with pinned notes
  • Editable note titles: double-click the header to rename notes with custom titles separate from content
  • Nested todo checklists with Tab/Shift+Tab indentation, word wrapping, and multi-line selection support
  • Full input method (IME) support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian languages on Linux (fcitx5/ibus, Wayland) and Windows
  • Official Snap Store packaging for easy installation on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions
  • Semi-transparent pill background for header icons to improve visibility against varied note colors
  • Completely restyled Trash dialog with theme-aware borders, backgrounds, and hover effects
  • Dedicated Remove Link action in the context menu for easier link management
Improved
  • Improved code block auto-detection accuracy with enhanced heuristics for YAML and SQL patterns
  • Dramatically improved performance when showing or hiding large numbers of notes (30+) using batched processing
  • Completed missing translations for shortcuts, help dialog, and settings strings across all languages
Fixed
  • Backspace on empty code block now properly clears formatting instead of getting stuck
  • Formatting toggles (bold, italic, strikethrough) now work reliably when selecting entire lines
  • Closing a note from the taskbar or window manager no longer causes it to disappear. The note now hides properly and remains managed by the hub's hide/show logic
  • Fixed font family sync when moving cursor between code blocks and regular text
  • Fixed color palette selections not applying correctly in packaged builds
OpenStickies v2.7.0

Code Blocks, Custom Shortcuts & a Visual Overhaul

New
  • Code blocks with theme-aware styling: pasted code is auto-detected for Python, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, shell scripts, and more
  • Toggle code formatting on any selection with Ctrl+M. Works to add or remove code blocks instantly
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts: remap system-wide hotkeys and in-app shortcuts with smart conflict detection
  • Redesigned search dialog with hover previews, relative dates, and sortable columns
  • Redesigned Notes Hub with modern SVG icons, cleaner layout, and improved reminder badge visibility
  • Remove Link option in right-click menu: strip hyperlinks while keeping the text
  • Links copied from web pages now preserve their original URLs when pasting
  • Automatic dark/light theme switching based on your system preferences
  • KDE Plasma integration: notes opened from search automatically switch to their assigned Activity
Improved
  • Modernized UI across all dialogs and windows with consistent styling and better visual hierarchy
  • Settings dialog reorganized with tab-based navigation and 720p display support
  • 100% translation coverage across all 11 supported languages
  • AppImage size reduced by 35% (75 MB vs 115 MB) with wider Linux distribution compatibility
Fixed
  • GNOME desktop support: app now launches and runs properly without a system tray extension
  • Smoother undo/redo: paste operations now undo in a single step
  • Improved undo/redo behavior when working with checkboxes and todo lists
  • Helpful error messages when required Qt libraries are missing on Linux
  • Faster startup: license dialogs now appear at the right time
OpenStickies v2.5.0

The First Public Release

New
  • Paste anything: text, links, screenshots, files, folders, and images all in one place
  • Always on top: keep notes visible above all windows while you work
  • Rich text formatting: titles, todo lists, links, strikethrough, and text highlights
  • Desktop reminders with sound alerts and system notifications
  • Custom backgrounds: personalize notes with images and animated GIFs
  • Snap to grid for clean, organized note arrangements on your desktop
  • Pin notes to prevent accidental moves or edits while keeping them visible
  • Drag, resize, and position notes freely across multiple monitors
  • Search and restore: find any note instantly and recover deleted notes from trash
  • Bidirectional file shortcuts: drag files into notes or out to file managers with 70+ file type icons
  • Link hover tooltips: see a styled URL preview with theme-aware styling
  • Rename link display text while preserving the underlying URL via context menu
  • Per-note timer for tracking time spent on tasks
  • Export notes to JSON: your data stays yours, no vendor lock-in
  • Hide notes to declutter your workspace without deleting them
  • Hover preview for pasted images and PDFs: quick peek without opening
  • Right-to-left language support with automatic detection for Arabic, Hebrew, and more
  • Fully portable: no installation needed, download and run instantly
  • Cross-platform: works on Windows and Linux with a consistent experience
  • Complete offline support: fully functional without internet for total privacy
  • KDE Activities integration for organizing notes across Linux workspaces
  • Live settings preview: background opacity changes preview in real-time as you adjust the slider
  • Context-aware link actions: right-click shows relevant options based on link type (file, folder, or web URL)