I built a Wayland-native sticky notes app in Qt6/C++ – no Electron, no dependencies, single AppImage


 I got tired of sticky note apps that either don't work properly on Wayland, require a heavy runtime, or come bloated with features I don't need. So I built my own.

 Stickies is a lightweight floating notes app written in C++/Qt6 with native Wayland support (using startSystemMove / startSystemResize — no hacks).

 What it does:
  
 \- Multiple notes with rich text formatting (bold, italic, strikethrough, font color/size)
 \- PT-BR spell checking bundled directly in the binary — no dictionary packages to install
 \- Right-click on a misspelled word for suggestions
 \- Drag and resize from any edge or corner
 \- Auto-saves position, size and content
 \- Automatic backup on save (writes to .tmp first, then rotates to .bak) to survive crashes
 \- Export to HTML or Markdown
 \- System tray icon
 \- Ships as a single AppImage (\~64MB with all Qt libs bundled)

 What it doesn't do:

 \- Sync to the cloud
 \- Track anything
 \- Require an account

 It's my first serious Qt6 project. The codebase is small (\~1200 lines across 6 files), and I tried to keep it clean — happy to hear feedback on the code or features.

 GitHub: https://github.com/povman/stickies



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