You stop mid-task.
You know exactly what to do next. It's so obvious you don't even write it down. Lid closes.
Last night, you knew exactly what to do next. This morning, you opened the laptop to a hundred windows — and just continued whatever was on top. FloatyNote is a two-line handoff note that floats above everything when your screen wakes.
You always know what's next — right up until the moment you sit back down.
You know exactly what to do next. It's so obvious you don't even write it down. Lid closes.
All of them mid-something. You dive into the first one you see and just… continue.
The thing you actually needed to do this morning? You're starting it now. Again.
The cruel part: your plan was perfect. It just wasn't on top when you came back.
The problem was never writing the note. It's whether the note is the first thing you see.
Your whole life lives there. But Notion isn't the first thing you open — so the note waits patiently while you work on the wrong thing.
never opened in timeStuck on the desktop somewhere. Which is to say: under the hundred windows. Sunk without a trace by 9:07.
buried by 9:07Crystal clear when you stand up. Wiped clean the second you sit back down in front of a wall of open tabs.
gone by morningOne plain-text note. It pops to the front on every screen wake — above every window, on every Space.
Before bed or a coffee break: hit ⌥⌘N, type two lines to tomorrow-you, walk away. It autosaves as you type.
Your screen wakes — FloatyNote is already on top. In front of the hundred windows, before you can click any of them.
Start with what matters. Then Esc — the note gets out of your way until you need it again.
Every wake, every unlock — the note is front and center. Esc hides it.
FloatyNote is not a notes app. It's a handoff ritual with exactly one job.
Pop the note to the front from any app, hide it the same way. No accessibility permissions needed.
Pinned, it floats over everything and follows you to every Space — like a reference board for your intentions.
The whole point: every wake and unlock, the note greets you first. (Toggleable, if you must.)
No folders, no tags, no markdown. A note you can't get lost organizing.
No Dock icon, no window clutter. It lives quietly in your menu bar until it's needed.
To a plain .txt file on your disk. Position, size and pin state are remembered too.
No account, no cloud, no analytics, no network at all. Your note never leaves your Mac.
A single-file AppKit app with zero dependencies. Launches instantly, uses ~nothing.
The actual chat, the morning after FloatyNote was built.
Lightly translated from the original Austrian German. The swearing was real.
No subscription — a tool this small should be bought like a notebook, not rented like a SaaS.
14-day free trial, full-featured. No card up front.
or just download the trial and decide in two weeks
They all store the note fine. None of them show it at the only moment that matters: when your screen wakes and you're about to click the wrong window. FloatyNote exists for exactly that moment — it's an interruption in your favor.
No, and it won't. One plain-text note is the feature. The moment it becomes a notes app, it becomes another place where notes go to be ignored.
Nothing. No accessibility permissions, no network, no account. The note is a plain .txt in your Application Support folder — yours to grep, back up, or version-control.
Your note stays readable forever — editing pauses until you enter a license key. We're not holding your handoff hostage.
Hitting Esc takes a fifth of a second and becomes muscle memory by day two — but in that fifth of a second, you've read your own instructions. That's the trick. (You can also turn the wake popup off in the menu bar.)
Two lines before bed. On top of everything by morning.