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leotryhard

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Indie dev. Building Noticky (macOS sticky notes that stay visible in fullscreen) and other small tools at tryhard.be. Background in Web Dev.
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leotryhard··on Show HN: Noticky – A local MCP server for sticky notes on macOS
Hi I’m Leonidas, the developer behind Noticky.

MCP support was one of the most common requests I received. The obvious implementation was to expose basic CRUD operations, but I didn’t want an AI client to silently overwrite or permanently delete someone’s notes.

So I limited it to eight tools for searching, reading, opening, creating, appending, updating, trashing, and restoring notes. Access is split into Read, Write, and Trash permissions, and disabled tools disappear from the client entirely.

The MCP server and note storage run locally. Anything a client reads may still be sent to its chosen model provider, of course.

I’m curious whether this feels like the right boundary. Would you want more granular, per-note permissions, or would that make the setup unnecessarily complicated?

Noticky requires macOS 15+ and costs $6.99 once, with no subscription.

leotryhard··on Show HN: Sticky notes that disappear from screen sharing
Maybe in the future Thanks!
leotryhard··on Show HN: Breathe CLI – Paced resonance breathing in the macOS terminal
0 deps + afplay combo is the right move for this. Was wondering why not AVAudioPlayer until I saw the cycle lengths, overkill for 8s tempo.