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Pynnie

(Pronounced "pinn-e") A single, pinnable rich text sticky note for macOS. Like Stickies.app, but it doesn't disappear behind your windows.

What it does

Pynnie is one sticky note that can float above all other windows. Content is rich text with basic formatting, saved automatically.

Features

• Pin to front -- toggle the note to float above all windows (Cmd+P)
• Rich text -- bold (Cmd+B), italic (Cmd+I), underline (Cmd+U) via the Format menu
• Font size -- increase (Cmd+]) and decrease (Cmd+[) font size, persisted between launches
• 6 color themes -- yellow, green, blue, pink, purple, orange (in the titlebar and View menu)
• Auto-save -- content saved 2 seconds after last keystroke, plus on quit
• Dark mode -- adapts background and text colors automatically
• Persists everything -- note content (RTFD), window position/size (frame autosave), pin state and color (UserDefaults)
• Visible across Spaces -- the note joins all macOS Spaces
• Single instance -- reopening the app activates the existing window
• Paste sanitization -- pasted text is stripped to the system font at the current size, preserving only bold/italic traits

Tech stack

• Swift + SwiftUI (app lifecycle, menus) + AppKit (NSPanel, NSTextView)
• No external dependencies
• macOS 14 Sonoma minimum

Project structure

Pynnie/
├── PynnieApp.swift              # @main, AppDelegate, menu commands
├── Views/
│   ├── NoteView.swift           # NSViewRepresentable wrapping NSTextView
│   └── PynniePanel.swift        # NSPanel setup, titlebar controls, color palette
├── Services/
│   └── NotePersistence.swift    # Load/save RTFD to ~/Library/Application Support/Pynnie/
└── Assets.xcassets/             # App icon

Build

Open Pynnie.xcodeproj in Xcode and build. No package dependencies to resolve.

License

See LICENSE.