Keep Sticky Board

Desktop app that imports your Google Keep export (Google Takeout) and visualizes your notes as draggable sticky notes—like a big infinite board you can rearrange.

Features

• Import Google Keep exports (.json / .html) from Google Takeout
• Draggable sticky notes (drag by the header)
• Search by title/text
• Filter by Keep labels
• Saves your board layout locally (persists positions between launches)

Getting your Google Keep export

1. Go to Google Takeout and export Keep
   • https://takeout.google.com/
2. Download the export ZIP and extract it.
3. In the app, click Import Keep… and select either:
   • the extracted Takeout folder (recommended), or
   • the Keep folder inside it

The importer will automatically detect Takeout/Keep or Keep.

Development

Prereqs

• Node.js 18+ recommended
• npm

Install

npm install

Run (Vite only)

npm run dev

Run the desktop app (Electron + Vite dev server)

In one terminal:

npm run dev

In another terminal:

npm run electron:dev

Build

Build the web bundle

npm run build

Build the desktop installer (electron-builder)

npm run electron:build

Output goes to release/.

How layout is saved

Board state is stored in Electron's userData directory as board_state.json (positions, imported notes metadata).
Your Keep export is only read during import.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.