Sticky Notes

GNOME Shell extension that puts sticky notes right on your desktop

Features

Write in markdown: bold, italic, code, bullets and - [ ] checkboxes you can tick off with a click
Paste links and click to open in your browser
Paste an image with Ctrl+V and it shows up in the note; drag on it to resize
Pick a color per note from the palette, or set a default in Settings
Drag notes anywhere, resize them, hide them all from the panel button
Plays nice with desktop icon extensions like DING

Install locally

Clone the repo and run:

make install

Restart the shell (Wayland: log out and back in, X11: Alt+F2, r, Enter), then:

make enable

Your notes live in ~/.local/share/sticky-notes@banerjeesuvan.github.io/, so they survive reinstalls.

MIT — see LICENSE.

Layer placement and drag approach inspired by maoschanz/notes-extension-gnome. Made using Claude Code.