Simple Sticky Notes

Floating sticky-note windows for Obsidian — pin, colors, opacity, text colors, and workspace restore.

Open a sticky note from the ribbon, command palette, or file context menu.

Installation

Community plugins (after approval)

1. Open Settings → Community plugins → Browse
2. Search for Simple Sticky Notes
3. Install and enable

Manual

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Put them in <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/simple-sticky-notes/
3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin

Commands

• Open sticky note
• Create sticky note
• Destroy all sticky notes

Settings

• New sticky note folder
• Restore open sticky notes (position, size, colors, transparency)
• Show in taskbar
• Default pin mode
• Default window size / resizable
• Default transparency
• Background colors (same palette as on the note)
• Text colors (same palette as on the note)
• Save appearance to note frontmatter

Support

If you find this useful:

• GitHub Sponsors
• Buy Me a Coffee
• PayPal

Limitations

• Requires Obsidian 1.13.0+ (declarative settings API)
• Desktop only — uses Electron APIs for pin, opacity, and window sizing
• Relies on Obsidian popout / header DOM structure, which may change in future Obsidian versions

License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 — see LICENSE.