StickyNoteWidget

A virtual stickyNote placed on the desktop.
Uses Python, TKinter, Pillow, and SQLite.

Features

Autosaves Any Change

Use StickyNoteHub Buttons or Right Click Menu

Create or Delete stickyNotes

Change Attributes

Color

Font Family / Size (ctrl +/-)

Title

Holistic View

How to Install

1. Ensure Python and TKinter are installed. TKinter is included in all standard Python distributions.
2. (Optional) Install Pillow library. Forgoing this library, the application will still function properly but StickyNoteHub will not have button icons.
3. Either download and extract StickyNoteWidget.zip OR download StickyNoteWidget.pyw. The zip file includes all button icons, whereas the standalone Python file does not.
4. Execute StickyNoteWidget.pyw.
5. Enjoy!

What's New?

• Added several customization options: natively change the background, bar, and font color, font family, etc.
• Added button icons
• Added rightClickMenu

Old Changes

• Added a few features to StickyNoteHub, such as creating and deleting stickyNotes.
• Added window icons :D Required to download the zip file to utilize them.
• Optimize to run faster. This is due to not running several SQLite queries per second. Instead, a stickyNote will only update the database when the user defocus from the window.
• Replaced all folders and flat files with one stickyNoteDatabase.db. Having done so, development will become more streamlined.
• The zoom in/out features now save.
• Removed StickyNoteWidget.exe. As I do not have the ability to sign my exe files, there is seemingly no surefire way to ensure it is not recognized as a virus.

Old Changes (before SQLite)

• Added a couple more commands. Use ctrl + w to save and quit. Use ctrl + s to save. Not very necessary as autosave covers most activity, but it does give an indicator for peace of mind.
• Added a zoom in/out feature. AKA, increase or decrease the size of the font using the commands -> ctrl + plus and ctrl + minus.
• Wraps text around words (standard) as opposed to chars.
• Converted StickyNoteWidget.py to StickyNoteWidget.pyw to remove terminal window spawn.
• Added StickyNoteWidget.exe to improve accessibility.
• Left and right border widths are no longer slightly incongruent.
• Converted the bar from a frame to a label widget.
• Saves configurations for all StickyNotes upon clicking X from StickyNoteHub; the root window.
• Can now process multiple StickyNotes simultaneously. Details in How to Install.
• StickyNoteHub exists. Limited functionality as of now; just displays which StickyNotes are currently open.
• Creates the necessary files if they do not exist yet and no longer requires the use of the pesky Environment Variable. All makes for a more streamlined installation process.
• Gave StickyNotes an ID: their title. No functional differences yet other than a change in the window's title and a reworked folder system.
• Fixed the code's style to something more readable. Includes making comments more insightful, better whitespace usage, etc. Also changed the names of several files, mostly removing underscores in favor of CamelCase.
• Converted StickyNoteWidget from a Procedural Program into an Object-Oriented Program (OOP). This will streamline debugging, adding new features, updating the code style, etc. Does not change functionality.