Shopping list
- Oat milk
- Coffee beans
- Bread
- Birthday candles!
Oct 27, 2026, 10:30 AM🗑
What is Stikly?
Stikly turns your desktop into a real bulletin board. Each note is its own small window—without borders or a Windows title bar—so you can have as many as you like, in any color you choose, pinned wherever you want.
Everything is saved on your own computer. Every note is its own small file, and a built-in panel lets you browse, search and reopen all of them whenever you want.
Each note, your way
The bottom bar of each note has just what you need to write quickly and without distractions.
Formatted text
Bold, italics, underline and strikethrough are right inside the note. The A button changes the color of the selected text and the marker button highlights it, just like a real highlighter. Right-click either one to remove the color. Your selection stays put while you try different colors.
Lists & checklists
Bulleted and numbered lists, plus checklists: click a box and the whole line is crossed out. Click again to undo it.
Move and Resize
Drag the note by its top bar or stretch a corner to enlarge it. Stikly remembers the position and size of each note between sessions.
All the ones you need
The + button creates a new note slightly offset from the previous one, so they never stack directly on top of each other.
All your notes in one panel
Stikly always starts with this panel, and you can reopen it any time with Ctrl+O. It shows every saved note as a real sticky note, with its colors, lists and highlights. Search, open, import or delete from there, or start a new note with one click.
Auto-save on exit
Use Close all notes from the tray icon (or just quit Stikly) and every note with text is saved automatically, named after its first line.
Multi-monitor friendly
Stikly remembers which screen each note was on. If you unplug a monitor, the notes that were on it move to your main screen automatically, so you never lose one off-screen.
Three ways to pin a note
The three-dot menu hides Stikly's most particular trick: choosing which layer of your desktop each note lives in. Try it below.
In each example, the yellow note is your Stikly note — the other colors represent regular windows open on your desktop.
desktop simulation
normal window
A regular window: other apps can cover it and it appears in Alt+Tab.
In whatever color you like
Four factory colors ready with a click, plus a complete selector if none of them convince you.
#fff59d
#f8bbd0
#c8e6c9
#bbdefb
to your liking
The gear icon opens a full color selector to choose the exact tone you want. Stikly automatically adjusts the contrast of the note's bars so they are easy to read in both light and dark colors.
Your notes, all in one place
Stikly always opens with a panel that shows every note you've saved, with its real formatting. Try the search box and the theme switch.
StiklyYour notice board
My notes
6 saved notes
+ New note
Import…
Open folder
Team meeting
Friday 10:00
- Review the release checklist
- Plan next sprint
- Send the notes to everyone
Oct 26, 2026, 06:12 PM🗑
Pancakes
- Mix flour, milk and eggs
- Rest the batter 10 min
- Cook on medium heat
Oct 24, 2026, 09:05 AM🗑
Ideas
Bold, italic, strikethrough
Blue text and
green on yellow
Learn guitar this winter
Oct 22, 2026, 08:40 PM🗑
Night owl
- Finish the design
- Write the changelog
- Ship it
Oct 20, 2026, 11:58 PM🗑
Passwords reminder
Change the router password and
back up the photos folder before the weekend.
Oct 18, 2026, 02:20 PM🗑
No notes match your search.
Click a note to open it · Shift + click to open it without closing this panel
Stikly 1.3.2
🔔 Update notifications (optional)
- Stikly asks on first run if you want to be notified.
- Nothing is installed automatically.
🖥️ Multi-monitor support
- Notes move to your main screen if you unplug a monitor.
Later
Go to download page
Open it any time from the ▾ next to the + button,
with Ctrl+O, or from My notes in the
tray menu. Stikly can also tell you when a new version is out: a
button appears here with the release notes and a link to download it.
It's optional and you can turn it off with the checkbox at the bottom.
Notes you had saved in older versions are detected and moved to the
new notes folder automatically.
What's behind each note
On the inside, Stikly is an Electron app with a somewhat unusual piece: it communicates directly with the Windows API to switch layers of a window.
main.js — the brain
The main process of Electron. Creates the window for each note,
saves every note as its own .json file in a
notes
folder, opens the notes panel, and controls the system tray
icon.
preload.js — the bridge
Exposes only a few safe functions to the note —create, delete,
update, save, open— through contextBridge, without
giving it direct access to Node.js. The notes panel has its own
bridge too.
note.html / note.js / note.css — what you see
The interface where you write: the text area, the format bar and the color and position menus.
library.html / .js / .css — the panel
The window that lists your saved notes. It rebuilds each note's formatting from its saved HTML through a strict sanitizer, so previews look real but can never run code.
windows-window.ps1 + .cs — the translator
A PowerShell script that compiles a small piece of C# at runtime
and calls Windows API functions directly
—SetParent, SetWindowPos— to move the
window from one layer to another.
your desktop, your data
Every note is saved as its own
.json
file inside a notes folder in the application's
data folder on your own computer
(%APPDATA%\stikly\notes). Notes are written when you
press Save, when you close one that was already saved, and when you
quit Stikly or choose "Close all notes" — in that case every note
with text is saved automatically, named after its first line.
Closing a never-saved note with its own × button
discards it. Stikly does not send anything to any server; to back up
your data, just copy that folder.
The tray icon
Without searching for any window, from the system tray.
Create a new note with a click, or close all at once when you want to clear the desktop.