What alternatives for sticky notes are available?

I like the Sticky Notes very much, they are always on the desktop.

But I can't find it in Ubuntu since 12.04. Other programs like gnotes & Xjournal are not giving a feature to stay on the desktop.

So, is there any application similar to the old sticky notes in Ubuntu?

1. Good news: you can have Sticky Notes in Ubuntu.

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:umang/indicator-stickynotes
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install indicator-stickynotes
   

2. If you'd also like to try an alternative, I can suggest XPad as well, which should be in the official repositories.

xpad deserves a try. Type in terminal:

sudo apt-get install xpad

Tomboy

This is a note taking app for your Linux which also works on Mac and Windows platforms.

Features:

• Making notes
• highlight text
• bulleting
• change fonts
• link to email addresses

... and much more.

To install:

sudo apt-get install tomboy

official site

My preferred one is xfce4-notes. To install:

sudo apt-get install xfce4-notes*

Try the following command. For me it worked on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

sudo snap install stickynotes

These are even better than the Windows stickynotes. You can arrange multiple notes as tiles and them access them individually as needed. You can color code them based on priority or just to identify them distinctly. They also have multiple options like:

• Adding video
• Adding audio
• Touch mode
• Import
• Export
• Spelling suggestions as you write