NoteStation
Clipboard manager · Sticky notes overlay · Task manager
Built for Low Vision users — fully customisable per-note font and color.
Features
📋 Clipboard Manager
- Auto-captures clipboard history (up to 500 entries)
- Pin important items so they stay at the top
- 5 quick-paste preset slots (Ctrl+1–5) populated from pinned items
- Cycle through recent clips with keyboard or mouse side buttons (XButton1/2)
- Optional Ctrl+Alt+Scroll to cycle clipboard
- Search/filter clipboard history
📝 Sticky Notes (Overlay)
- Each note is an independent floating overlay window
- Per-note font family, font size, bold, italic — fully independent
- Per-note text color and background color — 8 presets + custom hex
- Notes persist between sessions and reopen where you left them
- Pin notes on top of all windows (📌 button)
- Hide/show from main window list
- Resize by dragging bottom-right corner
✅ Task Manager
- Drag-to-reorder tasks
- Assign due dates and times
- Star important tasks
- Push tasks to Timer Studio for countdown alerts
- Quick-add task bar with optional date picker
- Search/filter tasks
- Complete/incomplete toggle
Low Vision Controls
Every sticky note has independent:
- Font family: choose from all installed Windows fonts
- Font size: 8–72pt slider
- Bold / Italic checkboxes
- Text color: 8 presets + custom hex input
- Background color: 8 presets (dark, cream, yellow, green, blue, pink, plum, salmon) + custom hex
UI Map
| Row | Content |
|---|---|
| 1 | App name · ⌨ Hotkeys · ⚙ Settings · ◑ Theme · ℹ About · ⊞ UI Size |
| 2 | 📋 Clipboard | 📝 Notes | ✅ Tasks (NavRow) |
| 3 | Context-sensitive toolbar (paste/prev/next/pin/delete for Clipboard, new/show/hide for Notes, new/complete/push/delete for Tasks) |
| 4 | Main content panel (list, note grid, or task list) |
| 5 | Quick Paste presets (5 slots from pinned clips) · Resize grip |
Hotkeys
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| New task (Tasks tab) | Ctrl+N |
| New note (Notes tab) | Ctrl+Shift+N |
| About / Help | F1 |
| Cycle UI size | Ctrl+= |
| Quick-paste slot 1–5 | Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+5 |
| Previous clipboard | XButton1 (mouse back button) |
| Cycle clipboard | Ctrl+Alt+Scroll (configurable) |
Settings
Mouse Button Assignments — Settings → Mouse Button Assignments
Assign XButton1 or XButton2 to previous/next clipboard. Optionally enable Ctrl+Alt+Scroll.
TimerStudio Integration — Settings → Timer Studio Integration
Point to %AppData%\TimerStudio\timers.json to enable push-to-timer from task cards.
Data storage
All data lives in %AppData%\NoteStation\:
prefs.json— window geometry, settingsclipboard.json— clipboard history (text only)notes.json— sticky note content and appearancetasks.json— task list
No network calls are made. No telemetry.
Building
cd NoteStation
build.batRequires: .NET 10 SDK, optionally NSIS 3.x for the installer.
WCAG AAA
- All interactive elements ≥ 44px touch target
- 7:1 contrast on all themes (text on background)
- 2px Gold focus ring (
FocusRingBrush) on all focusable controls - No color-only information
- Bottom-right drag handles on all resizable windows
- Sticky notes: fully customisable per-note font/color for Low Vision needs
Part of the Old Gamers Software suite — oldgamerssoftware.com