Productivity

Quick Notes widget for Windows

The place to put a phone number, a snippet, or a half-formed thought before it evaporates. It saves as you type, so there is no save button and nothing to lose. Switch on monospace and line numbers when you are pasting code, or markdown preview when you are drafting. Turn on the optional AI enhancements and three buttons appear under the note: Tidy fixes typos and structure, Expand turns shorthand into sentences, and Checklist makes a markdown to-do list, each with a one-step undo.

Free · Windows 10 and 11 · No account required

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The real Quick Notes widget, running live. Drag it around.

What it’s for

What Quick Notes is good for

The everyday jobs this widget was built to handle.

Park text you are about to paste somewhere else

Keep meeting scratch notes on screen instead of in a document you will never reopen

Draft in markdown and preview it in place

Turn messy meeting shorthand into a clean checklist with one click

Settings

Every Quick Notes setting

9 options, set per widget - so two copies of Quick Notes on the same dashboard can behave completely differently. Highlighted values are the defaults.

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Any value you like · starts at Write your notes here...

Auto save delay

25050010002000

Show word count

OnOff

Advanced

Show char count

OnOff

Monospace font

OnOff

Show line numbers

OnOff

Markdown preview

OnOff

AI enabled

OnOff

AI integration ID

Any value you like

Setup

Getting Quick Notes on your desktop

  1. 01

    Install

    Download and run the installer. No account, no sign-in.

  2. 02

    Add the widget

    Hit Add Widget, or press Ctrl+K and search for it by name.

  3. 03

    Make it yours

    Drag it where you want, resize it, and set the options below.

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