SideNotes Features
What Makes SideNotes Different?
It combines the simplicity of sticky notes and the convenience of complex note-taking apps.
It Sticks to Your Screen Edge
Note down on the side with your project still in sight. Your notes are displayed over other apps. Even while in full screen.
It Grabs Notes Instantly
SideNotes allows you to take quick notes, without changing your context. You can define a global keyboard shortcut to quickly add your notes.

Simple Yet Full‐Featured
Quick access and plenty of features makes it convenient and fun to use.
When You Need More than Words
Save screenshots, task lists, fragments of code, shortcuts to files and folders. All of these and more are supported by SideNotes.

Exporting Notes to Images
You can export any note to an image and send it to your friend or publish it as a social media post.
Screenshots and Pictures
Where do you keep your screenshots? Desktop is not the place.
You can save them in SideNotes. Just drop a newly-taken screenshot into the app. Everything's clean and within reach.
Sketches and Photos from iPhone and iPad
Long press + button and take a photo using your iPhone or iPad. Draw a sketch or scan a document and import it into SideNotes. Read more

File and Folder Shortcuts
Drag and drop a file or a folder. SideNotes saves a shortcut with a preview. Double-click to open it. Read more

Colors
If you're a graphic designer or a developer, sometimes you need to save a color in the #rrggbb
format.
SideNotes renders it nicely. Copy it with a single click.
Read more

Code Snippets
Ever needed to create a text file to save a temporary fragment of code? Just put it into SideNotes and set the text formatting to Code. Read more
Minimalistic and Great-Looking
Once you start using SideNotes, you'll probably take lots of notes.
Distinguish them with colors and use Markdown to format the text.
And as SideNotes is your daily app, style it by choosing your favourite theme,
set note colors & format the text with Markdown.

Themes
Elegant, vibrant, minimalistic. Choose your favourite or create your own one. Fit the theme to your mood or time of day. For more information visit Themes page.

Note Colors
You can select a color for your note to visually distinguish it. Choose a bar or background color. Read more

Markdown
Quickly format text by using a subset of Markdown syntax.
Automation & Integration
Integrate SideNotes with other apps, automate your tasks using Shortcuts Actions and Apple Script API.

Shortcuts Actions
Automate your daily tasks. Create notes and folders and integrate SideNotes with other apps. Read more

Apple Script
Create and modify notes and folders, search for them and get their content. You can use Apple Script to integrate SideNotes with other apps. Read more

Alfred Workflow
Download our Alfred workflow and take notes even faster, quickly search for them, use snippets and more. Read more
There are More Features
Lots of settings, automatic backups and iCloud synchronization.
We truly love making this app, so this is not the end. Stay in touch!

Preferences
Use as it is or make a few tweaks. Choose where and how to display the app. Set your favourite appearance, decide how to display the text and set up the global keyboard shortcuts.

Automatic Backups
SideNotes makes backups of your notes automatically. So if you accidentally delete a note or a folder, you keep you chances of bringing it back.

iCloud Synchronization
Now you can sync your notes between your computers.
iCloud synchronisation requires macOS 11 or newer.
- 100% Native macOS App
- Ready for M1
- Quickly Switching the Folder
- Share Extension
- Moving Notes Between Folders
- Keyboard Driven UI
- Global Shortcuts
- Launching on Startup
- Setting left or right side
- Workspaces Integration
- Search
- Adding Notes Right from the Pasteboard
- Importing Text Files
- Folders
- Folder Sorting
- Note and Folder URLs
- Quickly moving note to top or bottom
- Options for creating new notes and folders
- Quickly switching to the last folder
- Snippets: use content of your notes in other apps
- Exporting notes to images