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.
This looks interesting and I wanted to say thank you for the simple one-time pricing. In a world where most developers want to make everything a subscription, it’s delightful to see an application that I only have to pay for once.
I watched the YouTube video walk-through and it did not explain how or where the data is stored. Do you use iCloud and is that how you manage multiple devices? More information about data storage and backup/synchronization would be really helpful!
Does it also has reminders like Todoist app where writing a note can sometimes stay there for hours and the deadline has passed away.
the "always available even in full screen" detail is what makes or breaks these. i've tried 4 stickies replacements and the moment i go full-screen on figma or zoom, they hide and i lose the thread. how do you handle multi-monitor — does each display get its own side?
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.
SideNotes was featured in Productivity (651.7k followers), Writing (59.2k followers) and Notes (8.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 147k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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.
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Marcin Krzywonos