Portable Stash

Portable Stash is a small note manager that offers simple means to compose and manage personal or work-related information, such as journal entries, notations, phone numbers or addresses. It can help you stay organized with minimal effort.

The app comes in the form of a self-extracting executable, which doesn't need prior setup in order to run. It can be carried on a thumb drive and launched from any Windows-based computer. Since it's portable, it doesn't generate new entries in the registry. Also, it doesn't take up much space on the disk.

Portable Stash is wrapped in a self-explanatory and clean layout, divided into a topic viewer and the editing area. A small toolbar bundles several basic functions, namely "New", "Open", "Save", "Add", "Delete" and "Find".

Due to its simplicity, the app can be used even by those less experienced in handling note managers. The offered functions are few, limiting the user's choice to store sensitive and personal information. All you can do is give your drafts a name and content.

Portable Stash comes with a built-in text-to-speech feature that reads the text out loud, however, the voice can't be changed with another one nor the reading speed. The app's background color can be picked from a rich palette while the "Search" function lets you find words with ease.

There are no options to customize the text with font types, styles, colors and sizes. Plus, you can't insert bullet or number lists, images, symbols or tables, highlight specific phrases and easily recognize hyperlinks. The tool doesn't provide an import feature to open TXT or RTF drafts nor the option to protect the database with a password.

The bottom line is that Portable Stash is a user-friendly application that comes in handy for everyone who wants to write and store notes that can contain general data, like phone numbers, names, addresses or links. Despite the intuitive features the app offers, the lack of essential functions leaves much to be desired.