Ever since I made the jump over to Linux, I've grown a new respect for the terminal. When I first started with the OS, I feared it, and for good reason; the terminal can easily do damage to your system if you copy-paste the wrong command. However, now that I have some experience with it, I love using it for pretty much everything.

However, some people with far more experience than I can really make the terminal sing. Such is the case of this Reddit user who developed a sticky notes app for the Linux tool. And if you like what you can see, you can install it on your own system with just a few commands.

This terminal sticky notes app gives you ASCII-based reminders

And it's really easy to install

Over on the Linux subreddit, user dengob reveals that they're also a recent Linux user like myself. However, unlike me, they've managed to grapple with the terminal so well that they created a full-blown sticky note app that works within it. They created it because they ended up falling in love with the terminal so hard that they didn't want to leave it and open an app just to remember things. So, they brought the notes to them. Very smart.

Here's a full list of the features this app can do:

• Keyboard-Centric: Navigate, add, edit, and delete notes without touching the mouse.
• Color Coding: 9 different color themes to organize thoughts visually (Hotkeys 1-9).
• Priorities & Pinning: Set priorities (Trivial to Critical) and pin important notes to the top.
• Search Modal: Filter notes instantly by title, content, or tags.
• Auto-Save: Data is persistent and saved to your OS's standard data directory (XDG on Linux).
• Modern Tooling: The project is managed with uv for fast and reliable dependency management.

If you want to give this app a spin for yourself, just punch the following commands into your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/dengo07/textual-sticky-notes-tui
cd sticky-notes-tui
sudo ./manage.sh install

This will grab the app from its GitHub page, move you to its directory, then install it. Now you can type "stickynotes" into your terminal, hit Enter, and it'll appear to remind you of all the stuff you have to do today.

If you liked this and want to learn more about what you can do with Linux, check out these 10 terminal commands that can help you finally understand Linux. Or, if you really want to jump into the deep end, check out when one of the XDA team tried using only terminal apps on Linux for a week.