Pinny Notes is a versatile sticky note application that allows you to “pin” notes, keeping them always on top of other windows. It also offers a variety of handy tools accessible via right-click menus.
Features;
Pin / Always on Top: Easily pin notes to keep them above all other windows.
Block Minimizing: Options to prevent notes from being minimized, e.g., when the Show Desktop button is pressed.
Colors: Choose from multiple colors or cycle through them so each note is different.
Dark Mode: Dark theme using the notes color for accent coloring.
Transparency: Make notes transparent to help view information behind them.
Start Position: Select where on the screen your notes will open.
Copy/Paste Trim: Automatically trim text when copying from or pasting into a note.
Middle Click Paste: Quickly paste text from the clipboard using the middle button.
Copy on Click: Hold Ctrl to copy text when highlighted by mouse clicking.
Auto Copy: Automatically copy text when highlighted.
Full Line Select: Triple-click to select a line, quadruple-click to select the full line ignoring wrapping.
Indent Text: Indent selected text by pressing the tab key.
Auto Indent: Indent new lines to match the previous line.
Ends with New Line: Ensure text always ends with a new line.
Auto Scroll: Automatically scroll to keep the last line visible, making it easy when pasting text.
Spell Checking: Integrated spell checker.
Counts Menu: View line, word, and character counts of all or selected text.
Tray Icon: Easily bring all notes to the front or launch new notes from the system tray.
Tools;
Base64: Encode and decode to and from Base64.
Bracket: Wrap text in parentheses, square or curly bracket, or remove brackets from text.
Case: Change text case to lower, upper, or proper.
DateTime: Get the current date in a sortable format (e.g., 2024-07-11T12:00:00).
Gibberish: Generate gibberish words, sentences, paragraphs, articles, and names.
Hash: Generate SHA512/384/256, SHA1, and MD5 hashes.
HTML Entities: Encode and decode HTML entities.
Indent: Indent all lines by 2 or 4 spaces, or a tab.
Join: Join multiple lines into one, separated by a comma, space, or tab.
JSON: Prettify JSON.
List: Enumerate, dash (markdown), sort ascending or descending, or remove list markers.
Quote: Wrap text with double, single or backtick quotes, or remove quotes from text.
Remove: Remove various whitespace, slashes, or occurrences of selected text.
Slash: Toggle or remove forward and back slashes.
Split: Split lines into multiple lines by a comma, space, tab, or highlighted text.
Trim: Trim whitespace from the start and/or end of each line or remove all blank lines.
POX added Pinny Notes as alternative to Sticky.today
63BeetleSmurf added Pinny Notes as alternative to Tomboy, Milanote, Notezilla and Stickies
Comments and Reviews
Modern, simple, relatively lightweight of somewhat forgotten type of application. Looks promising.