π Start
- Sign up with email or Google. Pick a name, a mascot and its color.
- Language: choose English or Arabic at sign-up or under your mascot β Edit profile. The choice follows your account. Arabic pages read right to left, and the board is mirrored too.
- Tell us about yourself: your work, projects and how you like to work. Claude reads a short summary of it. Change it any time under your mascot β About youβ¦
- Emails: under your mascot β βοΈ Emails, choose which emails Stickless sends you. You can also add an optional second email for notifications. Verify it from the link we send; it does not change your account email and cannot be used to sign in or reset your password. Notification choices apply to both addresses.
- Your mascot is the pin on every note you write.
π Notes
- New note: double-click the board, press β₯N, or + New note.
- Just type. It saves by itself. Claude adds a title and #hashtags.
- Click the β stars for priority. Hold the pin or mascot at the top and drag to move; double-click or double-tap it to enlarge the note. Use the corner to resize.
- β’β’β’ or right-click: color, to-do, reminder, links, delete.
- Back turns the note over to write more.
ποΈ Dictate into a note
- Tap the microphone beside a note's stars and talk. Allow the microphone the first time. The mic glows red while it listens.
- The words show under the note's text as you speak. Tap the mic again, or anywhere on the note, to add them at the end, on a new line. Esc drops them.
- Tap the mic once more to keep going. Tap the language chip to switch between English and Ψ§ΩΨΉΨ±Ψ¨ΩΨ©; the choice is remembered.
- Others see the words when you press Stop. Two people can dictate into one note; both sets of words are kept.
- No mic? Your browser has no speech recognition (Firefox), you can only view the board, or the note is done, archived or in the trash. A grey mic means the microphone is off: it needs an https:// address (or localhost), and if you blocked it, allow it in the site settings and reload. On a Mac, also check System Settings β Privacy & Security β Microphone for your browser.
- Privacy: no audio is kept, only the words. Depending on the browser, your speech may go to the browser maker's cloud speech service (Google for Chrome, Microsoft for Edge, Apple for Safari). Do not dictate sensitive or patient-identifiable information.
βοΈ Stickies shorthand
Type these in a note. The first five go at the start of a line, followed by a space.
| - then space | β’ Bullet list |
| 1. then space | 1. Numbered list |
| # then space | Title line |
| -- then space | |
| text then -- | Strikes through the line up to the -- |
| !! then space | β Urgent: the note gets 3 stars |
| [] then space | β A box in the text; click it to tick it |
| [x] then space | β A box already ticked |
| -> | β Arrow |
| Paste cnn.com | A web address you paste becomes a link |
| #word | Adds the hashtag #word to the note |
| @ name | Pick someone on the board; they get a notice |
πΌοΈ Pictures and PDFs
- Drag a picture onto the board for a new note, or a picture or PDF onto a note to attach it.
- Paste a screenshot with βV.
- Up to 10 MB a file. Click it to open full size.
π Add PDF
- Board βΎ β Add PDF: choose one PDF (up to 20 MB and 100 pages) to turn into up to 10 concise notes on the board. The notes include the PDF's filename and can be edited like any other note.
- Text is extracted on the server, and the PDF is sent to the AI service to make the summary and read scanned pages. Stickless does not store the uploaded PDF. Do not upload patient-identifiable or confidential documents.
ποΈ Keep it tidy
- Show: all notes, to-dos, due today, overdue, archive, trash.
- Order and Group: by color, hashtag, priority, date, feelingβ¦
- Select many: Shift+click notes, or drag a box on the bare board. Drag one to move them all. To move the board, scroll, or hold Space and drag.
- Settings (the sliders button, top right): board size, snap to grid, background, pins.
- New note goes in the first empty spot of a tidy grid, five to a row, left to right and top to bottom. Moving notes around does not change the grid; a spot you emptied is filled first.
- Mobile view shows one note under another on a phone, and a new note goes under the one you are on. β― holds the tools, filters and settings; β― β Desktop view switches to the computer layout.
βοΈ Draw
- βοΈ Draw β pen, line, arrow, eraser, color, thickness.
- A writes big text right on the board. Enter keeps it, Shift+Enter starts a new line. Click it again to edit.
π€ Work together
- Share β copy or email the link, or invite people by email. People can edit or only view.
- Board owners can use Share β Post to a Teams channel to connect a Microsoft Teams workflow. It posts when someone joins, a note is assigned, someone is @mentioned, or a note is due or overdue.
- Assign a note (β’β’β’): it gets that person's mascot as its pin.
- See everyone's pointer and changes live.
- π¬ Comments on any note. Type @ to mention someone; they see it under π.
π€ Workshop
- βΆ Present: the whole board, then one note at a time. Use the arrow keys, Esc to stop. Select notes first to present only those.
- β± Timer: everyone sees the same countdown and hears a chime at the end.
- π³ Dot voting: each person gets a few dots. Click + on a note. End voting to see 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
- πΉ Video call: one click puts a call card on the board. Everyone sees it; click Join β to open the call in a window next to the board. Drag its title to move the card. The first person in may be asked to sign in to Jitsi once.
π€ Geeks
- β¬ Import from JSON: pick a Stickless JSON file. It overwrites the board: the notes on it now go to the trash, and βZ brings them back.
- β¬ Export to JSON: every note, arrow and drawing on the board, as one file.
- π€ Stickless JSON skill: copy or download the instructions for ChatGPT, Claude or another LLM, ask it for a board, then import what it writes.
- π€ Export to agent: Claude reads the board, asks up to two rounds of questions, then creates an
instructions.mdbuild brief to download. Notes, comments, names and your answers are sent to Claude; nothing is saved to the board. - π Import a web page: give an address; Claude turns the page into notes.
- π Import from GitHub: give a public repository, folder or file. Claude reads the README and selected text files, then creates sourced notes and, when useful, a diagram. Repository text is sent to Claude and is not kept.
- π¦ Floppy Bird: a small game on the board; click or press Space to flap.
- Amman Streets: any active player can ask Jev to play the next 10 rounds. Everyone still in the game must vote yes; a no vote or the caller cancelling ends the request.
- π Google Meet: paste a Meet link; everyone sees Join in the bar, which opens Meet in a small window beside the notes.
β¨ Claude
- π‘ Brainstorm: finish a note and ideas appear. Keep with β, drop with β.
- β¨ AI menu:
- β Ask the board a question
- π· Photo of paper stickies β notes
- π Meeting notes (paste or dictate) β to-dos, decisions, ideas
- π Diagram: flowchart, mind map or timeline
- π Sort by feeling, π sum up, π plan
βΆ Undo and history
- βΆ β· or βZ / β§βZ undo and redo your last change. Someone else's work is never undone.
- AI βΎ β π§Ή Clean with Jev: Jev suggests notes to omit or combine, one at a time in the helper; β takes it, β skips. Then it picks a note to branch ideas from.
- AI βΎ β π§ View as mind map: Claude Haiku names themes and subthemes; Jev places notes under them. Click a note to open and edit it, or double-click near a branch to add a note there. Only you see the map; π Back to board restores the usual view and β» Regroup asks again.
- Board βΎ β π History: every change, by whom. Go back here restores an older version (and that can be undone too).
- Board βΎ β π Copy this board: make a new board you own with the notes, links, pictures and appearance. Members, comments and votes stay on the original.
- Board βΎ β β¬ Download: picture, PDF, Markdown, JSON, or a Word summary: Claude works out what kind of document the board is (minutes, PRD, plan, brainstormβ¦) and writes one summary of what it concluded, in that shape.
β¨οΈ Shortcuts
| β₯N | New note |
| Double-click board | New note there |
| Double-click a pin or mascot | Enlarge the note |
| βZ / β§βZ | Undo / redo |
| Delete | Move selected notes to the trash |
| Drag on the board, Shift+click | Select several notes |
| βA | Select every note shown |
| βK | Search the notes on all your boards |
| Space + drag, scroll | Move the board |
| βV | Paste a picture, a list, or a web address |
| + β 0 | Zoom in, out, 100% |
| β + scroll | Zoom where the pointer is |
| β β | Next and back while presenting |
| Esc | Close a menu or an enlarged note, stop drawing or presenting |