FiveNotes keeps the five things you need right now within instant reach.
Jot down an email address, phone number, recipe, meeting note, idea, or anything else you do not want to lose. Open FiveNotes from the menu bar or with a keyboard shortcut, then switch between your five notes with a click or shortcut.
Keep FiveNotes above other windows - even full-screen apps - for a compact reference sheet that is always there when you need it. Or detach it and use it like a regular, movable window.
Five notes. No clutter.
The limit is intentional: FiveNotes helps you focus on what matters now instead of building another endless archive of notes.
Features:
• Instant access from the menu bar or keyboard shortcut
• Exactly five color-coded notes
• Always-on-top mode, including over full-screen apps
• Detachable window, screen-edge snapping, and display at the mouse cursor
• Drag text directly onto the menu bar icon to add it to a note
• Markdown formatting, including task lists, highlights, indentation, and more
• Search within your notes
• Custom themes, note colors, fonts, spacing, and light or dark appearance
• Automatic local backups to help recover overwritten notes
• Private iCloud sync between your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
• Apple Shortcuts, AppleScript, and URL API support for automation
• No analytics, no telemetry, and no access to your notes
FiveNotes for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch is available separately. Sign in with iCloud to keep your notes in sync across your devices.
Your digital piece of paper - always at hand.
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The stickies app Apple should have…
sspencerscott
The native MacOS Stickies lacks functionality that it should absolutely have - specifically cross-device syncing with iCloud. This app is the perfect marriage of the advanced capabilities (iCloud, etc.) and elevated formatting of Apple Notes with the ease and convenience of Stickies. It is an amazing app! I can’t believe it took me so long to find it. I’ll tell anybody I can about it! I’d been looking for this type of app for so long.
Developer Response
Thank you!
Switching windows shouldn't hide the application.
App Store Staff
When it's not pinned, if you click on another window, this app window will disappear. You have to click on the icon in the top menu bar to make it reappear. I hope it can just be covered like a normal application window and not disappear.
- Added more app languages throughout FiveNotes.
- Added new Settings options to turn off paste spacing, autocompletion, and the swipe gesture.
- Added a contextual menu to the menu bar icon.
- Improved menus with matching icons.
- Fixed an IME typing issue that could increase indentation when pressing Tab.
- Fixed occasional crashes caused by checkmark completions.
- Fixed app launch behavior so opening FiveNotes from the Dock now opens the app window.
Version 3.3
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Information
Seller
Apptorium
Size
3.5 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires macOS 13 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13 or later.
Languages
English and 7 more
English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
