Enhanced fork of the original NoteBot with Windows 11 Fluent Design UI
NoteBot is a clone of Microsoft Sticky Notes, without useless functionalities.
This is an enhanced community fork with the following improvements over the original:
- Fluent Design System - Rounded corners (8px radius) throughout the interface
- Modern color schemes - 8 vibrant colors + new dark charcoal theme
- Hover effects - Smooth button interactions with accent colors
- Improved resize experience - Custom resize handler with 40px edge detection
- Better visual feedback - Modern cursors and visual indicators
- Anti-aliased rendering - Smooth graphics with proper rendering hints
- Easier window resizing - Larger grab zones for comfortable edge/corner dragging
- Modern button design - Close button with red hover, add button with accent blue
- Improved color picker - Rounded swatches with modern selection indicators
- Custom gradient picker - Enhanced saturation for more vibrant custom colors
- Touch-friendly - Larger interactive areas for better touch support
- DPI-aware scaling - Consistent sizing across different display scales
- Custom resize implementation - More reliable than third-party components
- Modern Java compatibility - Tested with OpenJDK 25
- Optimized rendering - Better performance with modern graphics APIs
Windows Installer (Recommended):
- notebot-modern-v2.6-setup.exe (~5 MB)
- Includes Windows 11 Fluent Design UI
- Auto-startup support
- Java 8+ compatible
- One-click installation
Deb Package for Ubuntu, Debian, ...
Binaries for other platforms (Requires Java)
Original NoteBot | This Fork on GitHub
- Stick notes on your desktop
- Can move, resize and zoom
- Custom colors
- Auto startup
- Support for high DPI screens and touch devices
- [NEW] Windows 11 Fluent Design UI with rounded corners
- [NEW] 9 modern color schemes including dark theme
- [NEW] Enhanced resize experience with visual feedback
- [NEW] Modern hover effects and button animations
- [NEW] Improved color picker with gradient enhancement
Sticky Notes became trash with the August 2016 update of Windows 10, which turned it into a "modern" app, and added useless and suspicious features like synchronization and telemetry. Therefore...
- Not a "modern" app: you can obliterate all Metro apps from your PC
- No taskbar icon: notes actually stick to the desktop
- No synchronization
- No telemetry
- Not even an auto updater
- No botnet: it's open source, you can trust this application
- And most importantly: no ugly Segoe Script font
- Windows XP or newer
- Any platform supported by Java SE 7 or newer
Import the projects into Netbeans.
_SETUP contains all the files used to build the Windows installer and the .deb package. To build the Windows installer, you'll need Inno Setup and launch4j.
This fork maintains the lightweight philosophy of the original NoteBot while adding modern UI polish:
- ✅ Preserves: Lightweight design, no telemetry, no synchronization, open source
- ✨ Adds: Windows 11 Fluent Design, better resize experience, modern color schemes
- 🎨 Updates: All UI components modernized with rounded corners and hover effects
- 🔧 Improves: Custom resize handler replacing third-party component
The original NoteBot was created by Federico Dossena.
Visit the original project for more information.
Copyright (C) 2016-2019 Federico Dossena (Original NoteBot)
Copyright (C) 2025 Modern UI Edition Contributors (UI Enhancements)
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.