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Native macOS sticky notes — menubar-resident, global hotkey capture, multi-window floats, Markdown, iCloud sync.
Noticky is a native sticky-notes / quick-capture app for macOS 15+. No Dock icon — it lives in the menu bar and stays out of the way until you need it.
- 6-color palette (yellow / pink / blue / green / purple / gray); the default color for new notes is configurable in Settings.
- Three layout modes (menubar → Layout):
- Free — place anywhere
- Stack — cascade; selecting a note slides it to the bottom for full visibility
- Tile — auto-arranged grid; drag a note to reorder
- The Pin flag doubles as "auto-restore on next launch" — quitting the app doesn't lose your working set.
- Each note remembers its own window position and size.
- Float on top (menubar toggle) keeps every floating note above other windows.
- Double-click the title bar to collapse (toggleable in Settings).
- Inactive notes fade for less visual noise (toggleable in Settings).
Stack — selecting a note slides it to the bottom for full visibility
Tile — auto-arranged grid; drag a note to reorder
- Plain text and Markdown modes.
- Markdown rendering via gonzalezreal/Textual, with one-tap toggle between rendered view and edit mode.
- Global font size (12–24, applied live to every open window).
- New notes can start in edit mode or stay rendered, your choice.
- Default
⌘⇧N, customizable in Settings → Shortcuts (powered by sindresorhus/KeyboardShortcuts). - Three capture sources:
- AX + whitelist — read the selected text from the frontmost app via the Accessibility API (requires permission).
- Clipboard only — pre-fill with the current clipboard contents.
- Disabled — open a blank capture window.
- Whitelist is configured per app; selected-text reading is only invoked for whitelisted apps.
- Sidebar: All Notes / your custom groups / Ungrouped / Trash.
- Drag-and-drop notes into groups (multi-select drag follows the selection).
- Full-text search.
- Create / rename / move groups via right-click.
- Multi-select bulk operations: change color, pin/unpin, open as floating (capped at 8 to avoid screen clutter).
- Deletions are soft — items go to Trash.
- On launch, items older than N days (default 30, configurable 7–365 in Settings) are purged for real, matching the behavior of macOS Notes / Mail.
- Single-note Markdown export (
.md), or batch-export multiple notes to a folder. - File menu: full-database backup / restore as a single JSON file.
- Restore is non-destructive — it dedupes by UUID and skips notes already present, so it never overwrites your current data.
- Off by default. Toggle in Settings → iCloud Sync; first-time enable requires a restart.
- Once enabled, runs live cross-Mac sync.
- Verified working with China iCloud (
gateway.icloud.com.cn).
- Bundled English and Simplified Chinese; follows the system locale by default, can be forced in Settings → General.
- On store load failure, Noticky never silently nukes the database — it backs
up your data to
~/Desktop/Noticky-Recovery-{ts}/, shows a critical alert, and quits, so a corrupt store never costs you your notes. - Data migration across app updates is automatic and always on.
- macOS 15.0+
- gonzalezreal/Textual — Markdown rendering.
- sindresorhus/KeyboardShortcuts — global hotkey recording and persistence.
Building from source, project layout, packaging & release, and the CloudKit schema workflow are documented in DEV.md (architecture deep-dive in CLAUDE.md).
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