Try This Mac-Based Notepad Alternative to Give Your Sticky Notes Superpowers ...Middle East

macOS has a built-in app called Stickies that does some of these things, but it's desperately in need of an update, as the design looks outdated and it's not ideal for handling multiple notes. I recently discovered Antinote, a beautifully designed app that does everything I need from a sticky notes app, and has many more features including creating Pomodoro timers and converting currencies, which will appeal to power users too. Antinote has a seven-day free trial, after which you can pay a one-time fee of $5 to buy the app.

Speeding up your Antinote workflow

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Shortcuts > Global Hotkey, and that suits my workflow very well.

You should also spend a minute or two setting up Antinote to your liking, starting off in Settings > Visuals. Here, the app lets you choose if you want it to show up in the Dock, menu bar, or neither. I recently switched to Barbee for menu bar management, which keeps the chaos under control when I have a lot of menu bar apps open, and therefore I prefer to use Antinote as a menu bar app. However, I sometimes make it a 'headless' app, which means that it only shows up when I use the keyboard shortcut to launch it (another reason to have it memorized).

Understanding Antinote's keywords

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Antinote uses keywords to decide which features are enabled in any given note. You can type the word 'timer' at the top of a note and it'll show you all the commands needed to start a timer. For instance, type 'timer 5' to start a five-minute timer, or 'timer pomo' to enable a Pomodoro timer that lets you work for 25 minutes before starting a five-minute timer for breaks. Other keywords include 'math' for calculations, 'paste' to make Antinote store you clipboard history, and 'list' to start a checklist. Go to the app's settings and navigate to the Keywords tab to memorize or customize all these keywords.

Navigating between notes

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Antinote also automatically saves all of your notes in the app, but if you want to share a note with others, you can click the share button in the bottom-right corner of the app's window. This will save the note as a txt file in the folder of your choice. You can then use other apps to share the note. Unfortunately, there's no real-time collaboration feature.

Interesting additional features

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I also like Antinote's distraction-free UI. It displays text and lets you write without showing all your available buttons until you move the cursor near those buttons. There are a few buttons at the top of the app's window and a few towards the bottom, so if you find you can't find something you need, try both locations. One of the buttons at the top is a global search button that lets you search through all of your Antinote notes, which is very useful.

Visuals. You could make the app look more like a physical notebook, for instance, or change your canvas from unruled to ruled or grid-based. 

Visuals also lets you change the size of the window and the default font size to suit your needs. When I'm using my MacBook's display, I keep it at medium, but I increase the font size when the laptop is connected to a large monitor.

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