A beautiful note taking app with superpowers. It shows and hides on the side of your monitor to manage your notes distraction-free. Keep your notes organised, personalised and always at your fingertips. Markdown, tasks, pictures, colors, folders included.
SideNotes is a notes app that lives on the side of your screen, so you can capture ideas without switching context.
This launch includes two big updates:
SideNotes 1.6 for macOS: note folding, pinning notes/folders, redesigned Settings, Quick Formatting Toolbar, and new formatting options.
SideNotes Mobile 1.2: new hidden-Markdown editor (the same as in macOS app), refreshed UI, folding/pinning, and easier reordering.
Thanks so much for checking it out — I’ll be here all day answering every comment.
About SideNotes on Product Hunt
“Take notes on your screen side”
SideNotes launched on Product Hunt on May 13th, 2026 and earned 128 upvotes and 10 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. A beautiful note taking app with superpowers. It shows and hides on the side of your monitor to manage your notes distraction-free. Keep your notes organised, personalised and always at your fingertips. Markdown, tasks, pictures, colors, folders included.
On the analytics side, SideNotes competes within Productivity, Writing and Notes — topics that collectively have 719.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how SideNotes performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted SideNotes?
SideNotes was hunted by Marcin Krzywonos. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of SideNotes including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Marcin Krzywonos