OSD note

A simple OSD (On Screen Display) text editor - your productivity-oriented companion for a wide range of tasks on a Windows PC. Can become semi-transparent and stay on top of other windows. Features some basic text formatting functionality via a minimalist interface or keyboard shortcuts. You can use it e.g. to make notes while reading a document in another window, display presentation cues during meetings, keep a to-do list on the screen (and cross out items when done), etc.

New in v1.4:
• Added Merge function - append notes to an existing file
• Extra themes now included with default download

New in v1.3:
• Two types of dot points are now available
• A few bugs have been fixed
• Print dialog has been added
• Settings have been moved to profiles (multiple themes are included)
• You can now set custom extension for RTF files
• Two scripts are included, letting you run OSD note via keyboard shortcut or choose profile from launch menu

Features

Always-On-Top
Variable transparency
Text formatting
Save notes as RTF (rich text format), which is supported by MS Word, WordPad, etc.
Portable (no installation required)
Custom themes
Conveniently opens via keyboard shortcut

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docax Edited 2024-02-03

Any chance line numbers could be added? Bug report 2024-02-02: If background is set to black, and font is set to yellow in Advanced settings (or settings.ini), it works generally as expected, except if I erase all content of an OSD window with "Ctrl+A followed by Delete" - at which time the main font reverts to black. Then we couldn't see what is being typed. Please consider fixing this bug. Thanks.

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Edited 2024-04-29

Hi! Thanks for the review! That's a good idea. It's not very straightforward to implement, though. I'll investigate ways of adding line numbers, the most likely pathway being the addition of a "code editor mode", if I finally get the hang of Scintilla :) Re: bug report Thanks for letting me know! The bug has been fixed in v1.3
cloz54 Posted 2020-12-20

Hi, Thank you Your application is simple, small but robust!! I would expect it to open a document from the command line, by example, OSD_note mydoc.rtf Best regards

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Edited 2024-04-30

Thank you for your review! Glad you like the application. And thanks for the suggestion! Command line support has been implemented in v1.2