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@HimaSphere HimaSphere released this 10 May 06:11
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BetterStickies v1.0.0 Release Notes

This release started as OpenStickies v3 and is shipping instead as BetterStickies v1.0.0 — a full rebrand with rich text paste, Quick Capture, redesigned reminders, and a smoother, faster note-taking experience.

A note on the name change

The name OpenStickies kept leading some people to think the app was open source. That was never the intent, so the project is now BetterStickies — clearer, closer to how apps are usually named, and free of the ambiguity.

The rebrand touched config paths, packaging, store listings, the website, GitHub repo, payment provider, Discord, logo, Buy Me a Coffee, email addresses, domains, and a lot of smaller things. Your notes, settings, and reminders migrate automatically on first launch.

What's New

Rich Text & Markdown Paste

Pasting from emails, web pages, or documents preserves bold, italic, links, lists, and highlights while normalizing fonts and sizes to match your note. Pasting markdown text auto-converts headings, task lists, and code blocks. External images become clickable placeholders. Use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste plain text instead.

Quick Capture (Ctrl+Alt+V)

Global shortcut that creates a new note pre-filled with whatever's on your clipboard — text, HTML, or screenshots — without switching windows.

Show On All Virtual Desktops

Notes automatically follow you across all desktops on Windows and KDE Plasma, no per-note configuration needed.

Redesigned Reminders

  • Visual chips instead of plain text tags
  • Quick presets (30min / 1h / 3h / Tomorrow 9AM)
  • Right-click chip to edit or remove
  • Removing a chip auto-deletes the reminder
  • Single grouped notification on launch shows all overdue reminders at once
  • New Edit button updates reminders in place
  • Color-coded bell icon shows status at a glance (green/orange/red)
  • Ctrl+R opens the date/time picker directly

Clear Formatting (Ctrl+)

Strip all formatting from selected text back to the note's defaults — links are preserved.

Sync-Safe Data Storage

Notes and reminders now live in a dedicated data/ subfolder you can point Dropbox or OneDrive at without syncing machine-specific config.

Other Additions

  • Skip delete confirmation — optional setting to delete notes without the dialog
  • Smart paste toast — brief notification after auto-detected pastes showing what happened and how to undo
  • Structured logging — rotating log file and --verbose flag for troubleshooting

Changed

  • Hub redesign — dark glass background with drop shadow, high-contrast green text, count shows only unhidden notes
  • One reminder per note — existing notes with multiple reminders are auto-migrated
  • RTL is now note-level — toggling RTL switches the entire note at once (matches Windows Sticky Notes / Google Keep)
  • KDE Activities — notes appear on all Plasma Activities automatically
  • New notes no longer float above all windows by default
  • Trash keeps up to 300 notes with no time limit (was 100 notes / 30 days)
  • System tray notification only shows once on first hide

Improved

  • Faster startup — hidden notes defer content loading until shown
  • Smoother typing — reduced per-keystroke work for RTL detection and reminder scanning
  • Live preview sliders — opacity and line spacing update in real-time as you drag
  • Note Settings dialog opens beside the note instead of covering it
  • Search dialog shows 4 results, sorts by last modified, more compact
  • Reminders dialog redesigned as a flat sorted list with colored status dots and sortable columns
  • HiDPI toolbar icons render at native resolution
  • Deleted notes show content preview on hover in the Trash
  • Notification sounds work reliably in Snap and Flatpak sandboxes
  • About dialog redesigned with clean SVG icons

Fixed

  • Notes now pin correctly to all desktops on KDE Plasma 6.3+ and on non-English locales
  • Pasting rich text with <br> line breaks no longer lands as one giant paragraph
  • Pressing Enter after a formatted checkbox line no longer carries bold/link formatting into the new line
  • Line spacing changes apply to existing text and persist across restarts
  • Closing a note from the taskbar no longer makes it disappear — it hides properly
  • App no longer hangs on exit under GNOME/Wayland
  • Code blocks update colors correctly when switching themes
  • Restarting after a crash reclaims the D-Bus service without needing a reboot
  • Wayland app identity fixed — taskbar icons, Alt+Tab grouping, and compositor rules now work regardless of how the app is launched
  • "Modified" timestamp no longer updates from hide/show, drag, or pin actions — only real edits count
  • RTL notes restore their direction correctly when loaded from a hidden state
  • Settings dialog no longer truncates labels at standard DPI or with longer translations
  • Pasting into existing code blocks no longer creates extra line spacing gaps
  • Hub window shrinks correctly after hidden notes are removed
  • Audio backend crash fixed on systems using Qt 6.11+ with the FFmpeg multimedia backend
  • Object replacement characters (U+FFFC) no longer appear in note titles, search results, or exports

Removed

  • Per-note "Show on All Desktops" toggle — notes always appear on all desktops now
  • "Reset All Defaults" button from the Settings dialog

Download

Free tier limits: 5 sticky notes · 1 reminder · 1 GIF background

Platform File
Windows BetterStickies_Free.exe
Linux (AppImage) BetterStickies_Free.AppImage

For unlimited notes, reminders, and GIF backgrounds, get BetterStickies Premium.

Update: Fixed a Windows SmartScreen-related launch issue that prevented some users from opening the app, if you faced this issue, please re-download the windows exe file.

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