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Animated sticky notes: a checklist ticking itself off, Markdown appearing, and a sketch drawing itself

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Realer Xpad

Sticky notes for Linux that speak Markdown and let you doodle. Wayland-native, Hyprland-ready, and powered by Rust.

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$ git clone https://github.com/giosuel/realer-xpad && ./realer-xpad/install.sh

Small notes, fewer compromises

xpad got one thing right: notes that just sit there on your desktop, ready for a thought. Realer Xpad keeps that and adds what was missing.

  • Live Markdown

    Headings, bold, italic, code, quotes and links, styled as you type. Click away and the note switches to a clean read view.

  • Checklists that click

    - [ ] becomes a real checkbox. Enter continues a list and Tab nests it.

  • A pen, a highlighter, an eraser

    Sketch over your text with stylus pressure, six inks and undo. The default ink adapts to light and dark mode.

  • Seven moods

    Lemon, peach, rose, lavender, sky, mint and graphite, each with a hand-tuned dark variant that follows your system theme.

  • Hyprland-native

    Notes float, return to where you left them, and pin to every workspace through Hyprland's IPC.

  • Powered by Rust

    A single ~3 MB binary that starts fast and uses about a third less memory than the Python version did. Notes are still plain .md files you can grep.

Four sticky notes and the notes manager in dark mode

Notes in dark mode next to the notes manager, rendered in a pure Wayland session.

Write it plain, read it pretty

You type ordinary Markdown. Realer Xpad dims the syntax while you edit, so the structure stays visible without getting in the way. When you click away, the note switches to a clean rendered view where checkboxes and links are clickable.

Lists continue themselves, Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I wrap your selection, and code fences switch off formatting inside them.

Writing notes

A note switching between its Markdown source and the rendered view

Stays with you on every workspace

A pinned note staying in place while workspaces switch

Pin a note and it follows you across workspaces, for that one thing you can't forget today. Notes also remember their exact position and size between sessions, because Realer Xpad asks Hyprland where you put them.

Bind realer-xpad new and realer-xpad toggle to keys and notes are always one shortcut away.

Set up Hyprland

Stick a note on it

Free and open source under AGPL-3.0. Built with Rust, GTK 4 and libadwaita.

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