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Rubby Notes

A phone-sized notepad and task list that sits on your desktop, with a rubber duck who keeps you company.

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For Windows, macOS and Linux

Rubby Notes' Tasks tab: a short list of tasks, some done, some with subtasks and coloured priorities.

Hi! I'm Rubby. I keep your notes and tasks in a little window. Poke me, or scroll down and I'll show you around.

It's all one note

Everything you write goes into one Markdown note. Start a line with - [ ] and it's a task. Paste a picture and it stays right there, ready to draw arrows, boxes and sticky notes on.

The Notepad tab: a Markdown note with line numbers, headings, tasks and a link.

The same note, as a checklist

The Tasks tab is that note as a list. Tick things off, nest subtasks, give a task a priority and a description. Change it in either tab and both agree.

The Tasks tab with nested subtasks. A task's details: its priority set to High, a description and its subtasks.

Look what you got done

Everything you finish lands on the calendar, under the day you wrote it down. Pick a day to see what you got done.

The calendar: a grid of the last weeks filling up in blue, and the tasks finished today.

Then I shrink into a bubble

Press F4 and the whole app shrinks into me, a little bubble on your desktop. Click me and tell me a task: it comes out of my beak and goes straight onto your list. Press F4 again and the app comes back.

The app shrinking into a round bubble with Rubby in it; a field comes out of his beak, 'Buy oat milk' is typed, and back in the app it's on the list.

And I spin when you're done

Check off the last thing on your list and I do a little spin for you. Ticking tasks off sounds like a good mechanical keyboard, too (you can turn sounds off).

The last two tasks ticked off, then a message, 'Every box ticked', with Rubby spinning beside it.

Ten themes

Each one is named for a duck. Mine's the default: Rubby, plain black, where I'm my yellow self. Pick one and I change colour to match.

Rubby Notes in the Rubby theme.

Keys for everything

The arrow keys move around the whole app. These do the rest:

F1
The manual
F2
Settings
F3
The calendar
F4
Shrink into Rubby, and back
F5
Friends
Ctrl N
A new task
Ctrl 1 / 2
Tasks / Notepad
Ctrl Z
Undo

On a Mac, ⌘ instead of Ctrl.

Yours, on your computer

Your notes never leave your computer: one plain Markdown file, saved as you type, that any editor can open.

Your Rubby account only holds your licence: Rubby Notes signs in once through your browser, then works offline too, checking in every few days.

Racing your friends is up to you: if you join, they see your username, your duck and how many tasks you finish, never what they are.

Rubby Notes speaks English and Spanish, and follows your system's language.

Take it home

Rubby Notes is $9.99, once, and it's yours for life. Say the word and I'll be on your desktop in no time.

  • Rubby Notes

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    Yours for life, with every feature and its updates.

    • All ten themes
    • Bubble mode and drawing on your pictures
    • Friends and their streaks
    • 3 computers at a time

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On every computer

  • Windows

    Installer (.exe)

  • macOS

    Disk image (.dmg)

  • Linux

    AppImage, 64-bit

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