Tab Notes 4+

Update: Great App & developer support

When I purchased the app, I was amazed how much more productive I became. I use this app all day ( and night ). My only hitch was I couldn’t get a screen grab on my Tab Notes. As a Filemaker developer, I was afraid the problem would be related to the fact that I run 3 monitors, each with several spaces. I complained and the developer contacted me with the solution. Now this app is outstanding and works with multiple monitors and spaces. For anyone that uses the mac “Stickies", but gets disappointed how cluttered and unorganized “Stickies" looks on your desktop , “Tab Notes” is the answer. I would give this app more than 5 stars if I could.

Developer Response ,

Hi Tim,

Thank you for using Tab Notes, and for taking time to write a review.

Are you talking about “Capture Selection from Screen” service menu item?

What about unchecking “Apply this style to pasted text” in the Default Font setting if you have checked it.

What email address were you using?

Our email addresses are info@catalystwo.com or support@catalystwo.com

We don’t rejects any emails, and we receive many emails each day from all around the world so we don’t know what happened to your emails.

Closest to perfect!

This app is amazing! Its so easy to use and I love the options you have. Some stickies could be open and left on the actual screen or all of them could be on the side and collapsed if preferred. With the other app Tab Notes created, I also love that I can make whatever stickies I want. I have my favorite characters as my stickies which I love because my laptop feels even more personalized. This stickies app is the best so far for me!

The only downside for me is I have the stickies set up to stay on one screen. But whenever I expand my windows to be on their own, sometimes the stickies follow it. I always want my stickies to stay on the default/desktop windows, but even as I quit the tab notes and use them again, the stickies won't stay on the default windows page. I wish I could have all my windows open and expanded, and my stickies would stay on the default page for better organization.

Nearly perfect stickies alternative and works very well. One of my favorite programs!

I’ve been looking (and looking and looking) for a “stickies” like app that did not operate like a Mack truck. And I just hate the look of the built in Stickies app that comes with MacOS.

One key requirement for me is that it MUST allow creation of a new note from the menu bar. Check! Tab Notes gets the job done and pretty nicely at that. It took some time to get used to the the snapping of notes to the window edge, but now I do like it. Notes are all easily accessible, but out of the way at the same time. Personally, I keep them on a second monitor to avoid distractions on my mail screen.

I did disable the cutesy characters right away though. :) They drove me nuts.

UPDATE: Still loving this after a couple of months. And I recently discovered that Tab Notes can be easily previewed and browsed using Finder. They may also be edited with TextEdit. Awesome!

NOTE: This app is unfortunately NOT compatible with “Popup Window” by the same developer. I do hope the developer makes these compatible in the near future. There’s some obscure way to “import” it into TabNotes but I cannot get any details on that. I also wish the developer would support customers better. Sometimes I try to contact the developer and never get a response back.