TrayMemo

TrayMemo is a small Windows application whose sole purpose is to help you keep track of multiple notes at the same time.

It runs quietly in the system tray without interfering with your work. In order to access the program’s features you are required to perform a right-click mouse operation on its icon from the system tray.

The tool was designed with an overall simplicity in mind so the main panel is quite minimalistic.

There’s support for preset hotkeys for helping you trigger various actions, such as reveal or conceal the notes, create a new note, open the exiting file, close the current tab, save data, and jump to the next or previous tab.

You can view the keyboard shortcuts displayed in a dedicated panel and reassign only the one used for showing or hiding the notes.

TrayMemo gives you the possibility to create a new note by uploading the information from plain text file format. You may generate multiple notes and easily switch between them thanks to the multi-tabbed layout.

What’s more, the application offers support for text editing options, so you can easily alter the text revealed in the main window and delete unnecessary data. When you close a note, the tool asks you if you want to save the changes applied to it or not.

The lack of configurable settings can be good news for beginners, as they can learn to set up the entire process with minimal effort. Tests have shown that TrayMemo carries out a task quickly and without errors. It leaves a minimal footprint on system resources, so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

To sum things up, TrayMemo delivers basic functions for helping you create and manage your notes. However, it needs a different approach and support for advanced features in order to compete with other powerful applications from its category. It would have been useful to see support for user-defined hotkeys, note creation from scratch, custom groups, and text customization options, just to name a few suggestions.