Floaty

A lightweight sticky notes app that lives in the system tray. Pin notes to float as always-on-top windows on your desktop.

Built with Tauri v2 (Rust backend, vanilla HTML/CSS/JS frontend).

Features

• System tray icon — click to toggle the notes panel
• Create, edit, and delete notes from the panel
• Pin notes to float as always-on-top frameless windows on the desktop
• Inline editing in the panel (Enter to save, Shift+Enter for newline)
• Edit directly in floating note windows with live title bar updates
• Adjustable window opacity per note
• Pinned notes restore at their saved positions on app restart
• All windows stay in sync automatically

Install

Download the latest .dmg from Releases, open it, and drag Floaty to Applications.

Note: Since the app is not notarized, you may need to right-click > Open the first time to bypass Gatekeeper.

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust (1.80+)
• Tauri CLI: cargo install tauri-cli

Run

cargo tauri dev

Frontend files (HTML/CSS/JS) auto-reload on change. Rust changes trigger a recompile and app restart.

Build

# macOS .app bundle
cargo tauri build --bundles app

# macOS .dmg installer
cargo tauri build --bundles dmg

Test

cd src-tauri && cargo test

Architecture

• src/ — Frontend (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, no build step)
  • panel.html / panel.js — notes list panel
  • note.html / note.js — floating note window
  • style.css — Electric Mint color theme
• src-tauri/src/ — Rust backend
  • lib.rs — app setup, system tray, window events
  • commands.rs — Tauri IPC command handlers
  • notes.rs — data model, JSON persistence, tests
  • windows.rs — floating window creation, native opacity

License

MIT