Sticky Notes

Create colourful, persistent notes and Markdown checklists from the Noctalia bar. Pin, reorder, blur, and save them in a folder you control.

Plugin

Field	Value
ID	ahmedhossamdev/sticky-notes
Entries	Bar widget: bar; panel: panel; service: service

Requirements

The plugin uses the standard mkdir and sh commands to create and resolve the save folder, and xdg-open to open a web link explicitly stored in a note.

Usage

1. Enable Sticky Notes in Settings → Plugins.
2. Add the bar widget to a bar section.
3. Click its note icon to open the panel, then use + to create a note.
4. Click a note to edit it. Done saves it; an empty note is deleted.
5. Use the star to pin a note, and drag its ≡ handle to reorder it.

Open or close the panel directly:

noctalia msg panel-toggle ahmedhossamdev/sticky-notes:panel

Checklists

Use standard Markdown task-list syntax. Up to three tasks appear as clickable checkboxes on a note card, with a completion count beside its timestamp.

- [ ] Buy milk
- [x] Send the report

Settings

Setting	Type	Default	Description
default_color	select	yellow	Colour assigned to a new note.
font_size	int	13	Preview and editor text size, from 10 to 20 px.
show_count	bool	true	Shows the number of notes beside the bar icon.
auto_blur	bool	false	Hides note contents whenever the panel opens.
save_shortcut	bool	true	Enables Ctrl+Enter to save and close the editor.
blur_strength	select	medium	Visual weight of the privacy overlay.
save_path	string	~/Documents/sticky-notes	Folder where the notes file is stored.
file_format	select	md	Storage format: Markdown, plain text, or JSON.

Notes

• Notes are stored in notes.md, notes.txt, or notes.json in the selected save folder. The plugin creates that folder when needed and writes only that file.
• The Markdown file includes note metadata in HTML comments; preserve those comments if you edit the file outside Noctalia.
• Blur mode hides every preview and disables opening note links until you reveal the notes again.
• The plugin has no network calls. It only invokes xdg-open for a validated http://, https://, or www. link that the user placed in a note.