Quick, ephemeral notes that float on top of your Roam Research graph. Jot something down, drag it wherever you want, and when you're done—remove it. No clutter, no permanent page unless you want one.
Sticky Notes are lightweight notes that sit in a layer above your Roam graph. They're meant for quick, temporary capture: ideas you're playing with, reminders for the current session, or scratch space while you work. When you delete a sticky note, it's gone—the block is removed from your graph. No archive, no cleanup later.
- Full Roam inside every note — Each sticky is a real Roam block. Use tags
#like-this, images, embeds, links, and everything else you normally do in Roam. - Drag anywhere — Grab the note by the header bar and drag it anywhere on your screen. Position and size are remembered for your session.
- Resize — Drag the corner or edge of a note to make it bigger or smaller.
- Minimize — Collapse a note to just its title bar when you want it out of the way but still visible.
- Ephemeral by design — Delete a note with the ✕ button and the block is removed from Roam. Perfect for throwaway thoughts and temporary scratch space.
- Create a sticky note — Open the command palette (
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P), run "Sticky Notes: Create Sticky Note", and a new note appears. - Move it — Click and drag the colored header bar to place the note wherever you like.
- Edit — Type in the note as you would in any Roam block. Use
#tags,/commands, images, and links. - Remove it — Click the ✕ on the note when you're done. The note and its content are deleted from your graph.
Sticky notes are stored under a single Roam page (roam/js/sticky-note) so they stay in your graph while they exist, but the extension is built so you can treat them as disposable: create, use, delete.