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QOwnNotes v24.3.4 Updated

Ennovy on 18 Mar 2024
  • 64MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by pbek

QOwnNotes is a text editor / notepad replacement with markdown support and todo list manager. The program supports themes, keyboard shortcuts, syntax highlighting and encryption. Includes available nested file list, tags, search and more. Optionally works with the notes application ownCloud or Nextcloud.

Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux. Windows XP users can find builds here.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder (if launched with QOwnNotesPortable.bat)
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch QOwnNotesPortable.bat or launch QOwnNotes.exe --portable.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
What's new? See: https://www.qownnotes.org/changelog.html
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2019-08-09 20:08

Latest portable 64bit version throws a runtime error on Win 10.

hamasaki on 2019-08-11 22:01

Fixed in latest update.

hamasaki on 2023-01-28 02:27

Now at 23.1.3

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Stickies v10.1d

Ennovy on 4 Apr 2023

Stickies work like customizable post-it notes with available styles, fonts, colors and buttons. Notes can be resized or snapped to the edges of other notes to keep them lined up. They can also act as reminders when hidden for a period, until a specified date and time, even upon waking every day, week, or month.

Alternatively, Stickies Portable is available.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and install to the default folder
  2. Copy folder Stickies to your preferred place
  3. Uninstall the program
  4. Create 2 empty files called stickies.ini and stickies.db in the application folder
  5. Launch stickies.exe
Similar/alternative apps: 7 Sticky Notes, Stickypaper
What's new? See: https://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/versions.html
Latest comments
pipperu on 2019-12-26 19:00

In order to use old version notes with the new 10.0a version you hve to UPGRADE from old version to the new 10.0a. You can NOT restore the working folder from a backup because v10.0a uses SQLITE.

Pendrive on 2022-03-25 15:30

I'm not convinced that the following instructions are sufficient:
How to extract:
1 Download the installer and install to the default folder.
2 Copy folder Stickies to your preferred place.
3 Uninstall the program.
4 Create an empty file called stickies.ini in the application folder.
5 Launch stickies.exe.

I think 4 should be:
4 Create two empty files called stickies.ini and stickies.db in the application folder.

Andrew Lee on 2022-03-26 06:54

@Pendrive: Thanks! I have verified your correction and updated the database entry.

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Stick A Note v3.1.1

Andrew Lee on 6 Sep 2022
  • 357KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Apr 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Stick A Note is an unique note-taking program in that it connects to an individual application window. Notes move with the window and disappear when window is not in focused or when the program hotkey is toggled (Win+N by default). Includes available color and hotkey customization, and all notes are saved to the application folder as text files.

Useful for keeping notes on individual applications such as usability or beta testing, or for keeping notes on infrequent/difficult programs to serve as reminders for use.

Note: Some software changes the window title with program behavior, which will make Stick A Note think it's working with a separate program (for example, this happens whenever you type anything into the search box of "Everything"). Stick A Note's associated note will no longer be visible (though still saved to disk) until the window returns to it's previous state.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Stick A Note.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Stickypaper
What's new? See https://sites.google.com/site/stickanote/changes
Latest comments
RainrooM on 2018-12-16 06:02

interesting to add notes to a 'folder' or even on 'specific emails' ...

hamasaki on 2022-09-06 20:29

Download link is a 404.

Andrew Lee on 2022-09-06 21:42

@hamasaki: Fixed download link

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clipLog/clipFind v4.0

lwc on 6 Sep 2022
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 May 2022
  • Suggested by vmars316

clipLog/clipFind is a portable, uncomplicated, no-limits, openSource, Clipboard-based 'Information Manager'.
It runs in stealth mode, and pops-up a Topics-Button-Screen whenever a 'Cntrl+C' copy-text action occurs (from any program). The user then clicks on a Topic-Button to save/file the copied text into that category(Button name). One click does it all.
The user pre-assigns Topic-Button Names, such as: Contacts, Diary, HowTo, Passwords, Reminder, CodeSnippets, etc..
Button names can be changed at any time.
The 'ClipFind search engine' can Find any word or words since day one , And present this information, 'newest date 1st'.
TTS Text-to-speech, clipLog can SPEAK any/all copied text.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: None.
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch clipLog.exe.
What's new?
  • Popup TopicButtons.
  • Improved SearchEngine.
  • Text-to-Speech
Latest comments
Checker on 2013-06-21 23:12

@ vmars316: Screenshots updated.

vmars316 on 2017-03-28 16:24

New with v 2.0:
Popup TopicButtons.
Improved SearchEngine.
Text-to-Speech

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Stickypaper v1.3.9

billon on 29 Sep 2020
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Apr 2014
  • Suggested by 66mhz

Stickypaper is a sticky note application that has much more functionality than most of its kind. t enables you to create normal sticky notes as well as pictures, real-time notes with RSS, and just about anything else with its fully scriptable system. Note that the documentation is in Japanese, but the program itself is in English.

Japanese help page and script library.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application Folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Stickypaper.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Stickies
What's new? See:
https://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/products.html
Latest comments
Kingnow on 2008-09-18 01:59

has anybody found a solution for the turning to black problem?

pau on 2010-08-04 09:27

anyonne know of a working script for news RSS ?

juverax on 2020-09-29 10:30

Version 1.39 beta (2014/04/04)
http://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/bin/stickypaper139.zip
( VirusTotal: 0-69 )

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StackNotes v1.0.4.6

Midas on 10 Feb 2021
  • 713KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 30 Sep 2018
  • Suggested by h3kt0r

StackNotes is a note-taking application to record notes and todo lists. The first line of each page is used as the Table of Contents entry and pages are automatically saved whenever you browse through your notes. Features drag-and-drop, priorities, TOC search, find and replace, built-in help, desktop locations and taskbar tray.

Each page can contain up to 32K of text (roughly 5,000 words).

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial
License: FreeBSD
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch StackNotes.exe.

Optionally, delete Sources.zip.
What's new? Changelog at https://sourceforge.net/projects/stacknotes/files/.
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2017-05-26 00:37

@xor
Better report your problems at the forum, the developer usually responds to bug reports and other issues. Of course you are not dumb. Did you change the initial location of StackNotes folder- it remembers the location of the last used file.

hamasaki on 2017-06-26 08:50

"This file may contain malware and the automatic download has been disabled."

Message from SourceForge when trying to download.

h3kt0r on 2018-02-08 12:43

Software is certified by SoftPedia as beeing "Clean of virus, spywares, adwares". The reason why it was reported as beeing "potentially malicious" at SourceForge was due to the AES encryption command line tool included with the package. This tool is no more distributed with the package and can optionnaly be downloaded from the "AES Crypt" website if needed. You can post questions, requests or discuss anything on the forum here : https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22131.
If you happen to find a bug, please send me a mail; thank you !

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Active Text Notes v1.0.0

webfork on 8 Feb 2016
  • 427KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Dec 2014
  • Suggested by DarkShadow

Active Text Notes works like a monitoring program for a given program, displaying the output text file (e.g. directory listing of a network folder, auto backup log file text, latest text info from a url, etc.) on the desktop.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Active Text Notes.exe.
What's new?
  • First version published

Changelog is at https://sites.google.com/site/activetextnotes/changes.

7 Sticky Notes v1.9

lwc on 6 Sep 2022
  • 18MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Jan 2013
  • Suggested by I am Baas

7 Sticky Notes is a feature-rich note taking program with included editor, highly customizable look, pictures, alarms, attachments, synchronization options, and ability to snap to borders of other notes or align to a grid. Also includes security features, backup, search, statistics, and more.

Functional in 64-bit.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: MSVBVM60.DLL
Stealth: ? No. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB And VBA Program Settings\7StickyNotes
License: Freeware (Donate)
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and run
  2. Select language, agree to license, select portable mode, and then install
  3. Move the files in the dlls folder to the application folder
  4. Launch 7StickyNotes.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Stickies Stickypaper
What's new? See http://www.7stickynotes.com/download.php
Latest comments
boardies on 2014-04-13 14:49

Google reports this as a potentially hacked website. For now, I'd avoid this

Redbeard on 2015-07-05 18:51

Nice software. The only downside is they made it stupidly complicated to sync. And, as of this instant, I haven't figured out to have it sync automatically. Who wants to have to remember to sync????

smaragdus on 2017-01-04 08:36

When called from tray, "Notes Manager" took about 10 seconds to show up, this is awkward and frustrating. Overall the program does not behave well on Windows 8 x64.

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PNotes v9.3.0

lwc on 6 Sep 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Feb 2013
  • Suggested by lamer

PNotes is a light-weight, flexible, skinnable manager of virtual notes on your desktop. Features include screen docking, groups, auto-save/backup, encryption, settings for individual notes, transparency and scheduling.

Alternatively:

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Run PNotes.exe.
What's new? Fixed bugs:
  • New group is created with black background.
  • Sending note text as e-mail body fails on special symbols.
  • Search dialog does not get focus after applying hot key.
  • Password protected notes appear without login dialog after switch between skinless and skinnable mode.
  • Note still appears on the screen while its group is deleted.
  • PNotes stops working when user tries to save the note whose group is already deleted.
Latest comments
Em Jay on 2010-06-25 22:09

Is there a way to transfer all of my notes from version 5 to version 6? I have about 100 notes in version 5... Thanks.

I like this app very much; use it all of the time to keep track of all sorts of stuff...

SH on 2011-02-26 18:51

Nice little portable app, picks up where Win7 Sticky notes leave off.

Cattleya on 2013-07-14 11:42

This program have fully feature of a note app, but context menu of this program really need improve, it suck hard, very long context menu is hard to use, hard to remember context menu position also.

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