Modern and customizable sticky note application


Keywords
sticky, note, text, editor, note-taking
License
GPL-3.0
Install
pip install qtpad==0.0.6

Documentation

qtPad

  • Modern and highly customizable sticky note application
  • Written in Python 3 and Qt 5

Features

  • Customizable actions for widgets events; startup, tray icon, bottom note border, titlebar
  • Customizable default style for all new notes, style for specific notes and style presets
  • Customizable hotkeys and context menus
  • Notes saved in plain text and organized by folder structure
  • Detection of image content/path from clipboard
  • Handy text actions boundable to hotkeys; indent, sort, set case, line shift and more
  • Auto save and load on focus events
  • Search and replace GUI

Screenshots

Customizable style presets

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Preferences GUI

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Profile GUI

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Folder organization

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Search GUI

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Command line interface

  • All the actions listed in the preferences dialog can be called from command, by using flags -a or --action
    • ie. qtpad -a "new note"

Installation

  • Arch Linux: install 'qtpad-git' from the AUR

  • Debian/Ubuntu:

    • sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pip
    • sudo pip3 install qtpad
  • Windows:

    • Install the lastest version of Python, along with the PyPi utility (pip)
    • Open the command prompt (cmd.exe) with administrator privileges
    • Type 'python -m pip install pyqt5 requests'
    • Clone the repository and extract the qtpad folder
    • Create a shortcut to run the script manually with 'python your_installation_path/qtpad/__init__.py'

Compatibility

qtPad is developed on Openbox. Altough not tested as often, it should also work on other platforms:

  • Linux: Openbox, MATE, Cinnamon, XFCE, Deepin, KDE Plasma 5
  • Microsoft: Windows 7

Known bugs:

  • Current font family is not loaded in style dialog font combo box
  • Wrong position of the tray icon context menu in KDE

Please report all issues on Gitlab :)