A hotfix release, shaped by user feedback on v1.2. Alongside the fixes it brings quality-of-life improvements to reminders and to launching the app when the hub is hidden.
What's New
Starting the app again brings the hub back
When the hub is hidden in the system tray, clicking the app's icon in your taskbar, Start menu or launcher used to say that BetterStickies was already running. On Windows 11 the tray icon usually sits behind the taskbar's overflow arrow, so it was easy to conclude the app was broken.
The new launch now hands off to the running app and the hub reappears, with the extra copy closing itself quietly. Whether it also takes focus is up to your desktop. The "already running" message still appears when the running copy genuinely cannot be reached: while it is still starting up, if it has stopped responding, or sometimes when the two were installed in different package formats. If it keeps appearing and the hub never comes back, the running copy is stuck: quit it from your system's task manager and start again.
Linux: a show-hub command
betterstickies-cmd.sh show-hub asks the running app to show the hub, so you can bind it to a desktop keyboard shortcut. It also doubles as a recovery path when the hub is hidden and your desktop has no system tray.
The helper script in the configuration folder now updates itself when the app starts, so upgrading is enough to get the new command. It is not available in the Snap and Flathub builds.
Changed
- A caution about syncing the data folder across computers. Syncing it with your own cloud service still works, but use BetterStickies on one computer at a time until a planned storage update. The whole note collection lives in a single file, so if two computers edit notes at once, the sync service can settle the clash by replacing that file and one computer's changes overwrite the other's. The "Backing Up Your Notes" guide now describes the safe routine
Fixed
- On Linux Mint and other Cinnamon desktops, notes no longer float above every other application once the hub is open. They still stay out of Alt+Tab, and windows stack normally again: always-on-top notes stay on top, the rest go behind whatever you are working in
- Windows: notes no longer disappear for good after Show Desktop or Win+D. They now restore themselves without stealing focus, so you still get the desktop, just with the sticky notes on it. Hiding notes deliberately is unchanged
- A reminder whose notification cannot be shown is no longer lost. It stays armed and retries every minute, including after a restart, instead of counting as delivered the moment it was attempted
- Quitting any way other than the tray's Exit no longer risks losing your last edits or forgetting where you put the hub. Every quit now runs the same cleanup
- An image set to Medium or Small now keeps that size after you restart the app. Existing images are converted automatically at the size they were shown
- Photos dragged in from a phone or camera are no longer inserted sideways. Their embedded rotation is applied before the image is stored
- Theme, language, notification, image and keyboard-shortcut settings can no longer be corrupted by a crash mid-save
- Re-picking an image's current size no longer adds an invisible step to the undo history
- TXT and Markdown exports now use the same wording for their headers, and an untitled page reads "Page 2" instead of "Page: Page 2"