StickyMD

StickyMD

**Your LLM said something useful. Again.**

LLMs kept producing answers worth keeping, but saving every result as a Markdown file—and reopening an editor just to write a tiny summary—felt like homework. I wanted a place to skim the output, jot down only the useful bit, and get back to work.

StickyMD is that in-between place: small notes above the wallpaper and below your real windows. Each note autosaves as a plain Markdown file, and one click copies an exact reference you can hand back to any LLM or coding agent later.

LLM output → skim → keep the useful bit → StickyMD → reference it later


Features

• Multiple independently saved notes
• Live inline styling for # headings, **bold**, and task checkboxes
• Automatic saving and live reload after external file edits
• Position and size restoration across logins
• Move and resize from every edge or corner
• Login autostart and a small GNOME panel control for creating or stopping notes
• Recoverable deletion through the system Trash
• A hover action that copies an exact, agent-neutral note reference

Requirements

StickyMD currently supports **GNOME Shell 42 on X11 only**. It has been tested on Ubuntu 22.04 with Python 3.10 and GTK 3.

Install the runtime packages on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-3.0 libgtk-3-0

Wayland is not supported; StickyMD exits instead of falling back to an ordinary window with different stacking behavior.

Install

From the project directory:

./install.sh
~/.local/bin/stickymd

The installer writes only to the current user's home directory and does not use `sudo`. StickyMD then starts automatically on future logins and is available from the GNOME application menu.

On the first install, GNOME Shell 42 may require a logout and login. On X11 you can instead press `Alt+F2`, enter `r`, and press Enter.

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