SideNotes
SideNotes keeps your notes on the side of the screen. Appears when
you click a little bar or move your cursor to the screen side.
Note down – get it out of your mind ‐ move on.
When It Comes to Really Quick Notes...
...you need to take them right away.
Any task, inspiration, or fragment of code. Show your notes in a flash. In the meantime, keep them hidden on your screen side.
Gather up Your Inspiration
Let your projects, designs, articles move forward and quickly save inspirational quotes, pictures and links.
Inbox for Your Thoughts
Just catch your buzzing thoughts as they pop-up and keep working. Deal with them later.
Handy To-Dos
Quick access makes you want to note down right away.
Note down your tasks immediately and keep the focus on “here and now”.
Stay productive and organised.
This digital notepad makes note-taking distraction-free.
Almost unnoticeable.
Why is SideNotes One of a Kind?
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.
Sometimes Words Are Not Enough
Notes are more than just plain text. 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
One Time Payment
You pay once and SideNotes is yours.
Focus on your work. Not on annoying problems with lost subscriptions.
Getting Started
What People Say?
SideNotes is used by thousands of people every day. We've received hundreds of emails where SideNotes users tell how useful the app is. Application has great reviews on AppStore®. Here are some reviews from our users:
This is my new favorite way to quickly write down my daily tasks as they come to mind. Also, I haven’t seen a quicker way to grab notes or text from another place like SideNotes, and believe me, it is quicker than anything else - like an inbox for the thoughts.
I love that I always have my notes accessible and in front of me no matter what I'm doing, always, while at the same time they never take up any extra space on my screen or clutter things up. (...) Check out the video
I basically use it as a collection of sticky notes on steroids but it actually has a ton of features. I use it as a quick to-do list to note-down notes when I'm doing video calls or streams or podcasts but the most useful feature for me is to quickly drop snippets of text I find on the web when I'm doing research and you can even drop in images for later use. (see the video)
Frequently Asked Questions
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One time payment or subscription?One time payment
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Minimum system requirements?macOS 10.15 or newer. For iCloud synchronizaton macOS 11 or newer. For Shortcuts actions you need macOS 12.
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Does SideNotes support M1 chips?Yes, it supports M1 as well as Intel.
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Do you offer student discount?Sure! It's available through this website.
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My trial expired. Can I get longer trial?Sure. Please contact us and we'll give you access to a longer trial.
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Does SideNotes support iCloud synchronization?Yes!
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What about iOS app?We're actively working on it. Currently, it's about 85% done. Soon we're releasing a private beta
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What about dark and light interface?Out of the box. It's up to your system preferences.
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What about FiveNotes?FiveNotes will be getting new features like tasks and colors in a future release.
