Desktop Secretary

Having to keep track of important tasks and events can be a pretty frequent activity. A simple way to organize them is through notes. In case you want quick and easy access to them, the you might be interested in applications like Desktop Secretary, which also saves notes as plain text file you can use in other projects.

It takes little time to deploy on your computer, and once the main window is up, you can start adding new notes, because the accommodation process doesn’t keep you busy for long. There’s a side panel where all notes are stored and easily accessed, while the rest of the space is where you add new or edit existing content.

There’s a sample note to provide an example of what the application can do, and where to start off. Creating a new note is easily done through a right-click operation to bring up the menu, with only a name required. Upon selection, you’re free to either write down or paste existing text, which is automatically saved.

Additional options can be used to have the application run with Windows to be ready when reaching the desktop, and even to hide to the tray area on launch. What’s more, you can find notes in the source folder as plain text files you’re free to edit.

Unfortunately, customization options aren’t abundant, in fact, they’re missing entirely. Text only comes in a standard style, with no option to pick a different one, apply attributes, or change colors. Pasting text in the edit area automatically discards all formatting options.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Desktop Secretary is a straightforward application which does indeed manage to help you keep an organized structure of your ideas, but it does so with little to no freedom in modifying text in terms of style.