Nitrogen Notes

The desktop can be used for a bit more than just keeping all of your shortcuts, a pretty wallpaper, and different windows. In case there are important events in a short while, or some tasks you need to track, Nitrogen Notes allows you to organize them in notes, with an impressive diversity of customization, and security settings.

On launch, the settings panel shows up first, so you can take a look over general behavior, and visual settings before you start adding notes, so you know what to expect. For instance, you can configure a different action for up to three mouse buttons to open the settings panel, show the tray menu, and create a new note.

Although the application comes with a custom-made interface which can blend in almost any environment, it would have been useful to see more visual customization options, or color options, at least a few more skins to choose from. On the other hand, you can set the default font to use, its size, color, as well as the default note window size.

Creating a new note brings up a small text editor, with a configurable, rich upper toolbar. A title needs to be added, but you can also leave the default, which is the current date, and time.

However, the main attraction here is the possibility to switch from the default plain text format to rich text, which also enables a font alignment, and style customization toolbar, and this can be done for every note in particular. Notes can be stored in different categories, which you can change, and manage from the settings panel.

When you’re done editing, almost all panels can be hidden to leave only text visible. Double clicking a note’s title bar allows you to resize it. There’s also the possibility to password-protect each note, with a prompt showing up whenever you want to access one. Notes can be exported to file, either under the application’s .note format, or TXT, and RTF.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Nitrogen Notes is a powerful desktop companion, not necessarily because it brings anything new on the block. What does make it worth your while are the various text customization options, and possibility to secure important notes with passwords.