Transparent Notes

A tiny always-on-top, transparent notes overlay for your desktop — with a built-in speed-controlled teleprompter for talking to camera off your own notes. Windows and macOS.

Features

• Frameless, draggable, resizable, always-on-top window
• Adjustable transparency (drag the slider or scroll the titlebar)
• Notes autosave to disk, restored on next launch
• Font family + size picker (Space Grotesk / Inter / system / monospace)
• Teleprompter mode — turns your notes into an auto-scrolling script:
  • Adjustable scroll speed (10–150 px/s), draggable slider
  • Play / pause / restart controls
  • Reading-line guide so you always know where to look
  • Keyboard shortcuts: Space play/pause · ↑/↓ manual scroll · ←/→ speed down/up · Esc back to notes
• Global hide/show hotkey: Ctrl+Alt+N (Cmd+Alt+N on macOS)
• Content-protected by default — excluded from screen shares and recordings, so it stays visible to you only
• Lives in the system tray/menu bar; quit from there

Download

Grab the latest build for your platform from the Releases page:

• macOS: unzip, drag Transparent Notes.app to Applications. Since it's not notarized/signed, the first launch needs right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway") to get past Gatekeeper.
• Windows: run the installer (.exe) or unzip the portable build and run Transparent Notes.exe directly.

Run from source

npm install
npm start

Build it yourself

npm install
npm run dist:mac   # -> dist/Transparent Notes-<version>-mac.zip
npm run dist:win   # -> dist/*.exe and dist/*win.zip

Usage

• Type your notes in the window.
• Click the ▶ icon in the titlebar (or press Ctrl+Alt+N after focusing the window) to enter Teleprompter mode.
• Press Space to start/stop the auto-scroll, drag the speed slider to match your talking pace.
• Drag the titlebar to move the window anywhere on screen — great parked next to a webcam.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.