ShixxNOTE 7.net

ShixxNOTE Sticky Notes & LAN Messenger for Windows

Keep reminders on your screen and message your team over the local network

Version 7.net Build 441
ShixxNOTE sticky notes in different themes on a Windows 11 desktop, each with a title bar, a pin and a footer saying when it was last edited ShixxNOTE note menu open on "Send note to" with saved recipient groups ShixxNOTE note menu open on Theme, with the supplied note themes listed ShixxNOTE "Set alarm" window with a weekly repeat and a notification sound ShixxNOTE "Note expiration" window set to remove the note after one month ShixxNOTE "Export note(s)" window with several notes ticked for export to a .shx file A note arriving from another computer on the LAN, with the ShixxNOTE notification saying a new note was received The ShixxNOTE Settings window with the password window on top of it The ShixxNOTE "Send note to other" window with the computers found on the LAN and their status The Email page of ShixxNOTE Settings, with the choice between Outlook and Gmail

What's new in Version 7.net Builds 413 to 441 released in October and November 2026

  • A note you receive now keeps the title it was sent with, in its own title font, instead of being titled with the sender's name and the time. Who sent it and when it arrived are shown in the line at the foot of the note, for example "From OZREN-DELL, 11.11.2026 09:46", and it stays there until you change the note yourself, when the line reads "Edited ..." as before. When that line does not fit across a narrow note, the time is left out first and comes back as soon as the note is wide enough. More about the title bar and the footer of a note is on the Features page.
  • The marks on the left of a note's title bar are new. The alarm (bell), expiry (clock), sent and received (arrows) marks are thin icons in a shade of the note's own colour, so they suit every note theme and are never black on a light note. A ringing alarm and a failed send still show in red. The alarm and expiry marks light up under the mouse and open the Alarm or Expiration window with a click, and the pin is a little smaller and sits closer to the X.
  • Pointing at the arrow on a note's title bar now tells you how the note travelled. On a note you sent it shows when it was sent and who got it, or who did not; on a note you received, who sent it and when. When only some recipients got a note the arrow is a thin red arrow, while a full red arrow means nobody got it, and a click on a red arrow reopens the "Note not delivered" window of that send.
  • The Note not delivered window now groups the computers by reason, and the advice under each group opens only when its link is clicked. Computers that were never found on the network are listed there too, with what to check, and before sending ShixxNOTE now makes sure the program really runs at the other end, so a router that accepts every connection can no longer make a lost note look sent. It is one less thing to go wrong on a busy network of office computers.
  • A note now goes to all its computers at the same time, so several unreachable ones take seconds instead of minutes, with a progress window showing how many are done. A single computer that cannot be reached reports back in about 6 seconds instead of about half a minute. The Q&A answers sending one note to several computers at once.
  • Send note to other shows each computer's IP address under its name in a clear font, with a coloured dot in front of the status, larger computer icons and a narrower window. Show all information opens its own window with every detail in a box you can copy from. A computer whose ShixxNOTE is blocked by its firewall now says Firewall, and you are told when your own firewall keeps notes out, with a one-click fix. The Q&A covers letting notes through your own firewall.
  • Recipients are easier to tell apart in Send note to other: an email address has a purple envelope, a name not found on the network shows a grey computer with a question mark before you send, and a saved group carries the same blue icon in a note's Send note to menu. Send note and the OK button for an email address stay disabled until a valid email address is typed, instead of showing an error afterwards. The Q&A explains how ShixxNOTE finds the computers on your network.
  • When a note could not be delivered to someone, ShixxNOTE now offers to email that person for notes sent to a group and for replies as well, not only from Send note to other. The question that asks for an email address is switched on or off on Settings - Email, where it belongs, with clearer wording. More about sending a note by email through Outlook or Gmail is on the Features page.
  • Double-clicking a ShixxNOTE file (.shx) now opens the Import note(s) window so you can pick which notes to create, starting the program if it is not running. A received note can no longer arrive cut short when the network delivers it in pieces, which could lose its last settings such as border and transparency. More about exporting and importing notes in a .shx file is on the Features page.

What's new in Version 7.net Builds 407 to 412 released in October 2026

  • The notice that a new note has arrived is smaller: only as wide and as tall as its words, with the date right after the program name instead of at the far edge, and with slightly rounded corners. The Q&A answers whether ShixxNOTE interrupts you while you work.
  • In Send note to other, right-clicking a computer now offers Description and model, where you can write what a device does not report itself. A computer whose ShixxNOTE reports them shows them as they are and cannot be edited.
  • Send note to other now recognizes more devices: Macs, iPads, Surface Pro and Go tablets, speakers and TVs get their own icons, and pointing at any computer shows a tooltip with its Windows version, description and model where they are known. The router says so too.
  • A device that cannot run ShixxNOTE (router, printer, Mac, iPad, speaker, TV, Linux, Android) now shows Not supported instead of "No ShixxNOTE", and cannot be added to the recipients. A computer that is on but hides behind its firewall is no longer shown as Offline, and a VPN no longer makes computers look Online when they have no ShixxNOTE. The Q&A explains whether ShixxNOTE needs special firewall settings.
  • A note can no longer be made so small that the "Edited ..." line ends up inside its title bar. While you drag a note's edge, ShixxNOTE now keeps room for the title, one line of text and the footer, so you can always read both the title and the line saying when the note was last changed. Rolling a note up still takes it down to its title bar exactly as before.
  • A picture you make smaller in a note is now drawn smoothly, instead of showing a grid of little squares that grew denser the smaller you made it. ShixxNOTE draws its own scaled copy of the picture and leaves the picture itself untouched, so making it larger again gives back every detail of the picture you put in. A picture bigger than the writing area no longer spills over the note's title bar or its footer when a scrollbar appears, and neither does the dotted outline or the white handles while you drag one. More about pictures in a note is on the Features page.

What's new in Version 7.net Builds 369 to 406 released in October 2026

  • The Paragraph window can now add space before and after a paragraph, not only between lines, and every setting in it has a small icon beside it. In the note's own menu, Format and Edit carry new icons as well, and Highlight stands in a group of its own.
  • Text in a note can be marked as with a highlighter. Format, Highlight offers yellow, green, pink and blue, and Ctrl+Shift+H marks the selected text or takes the mark off again. The highlight menu is shown on the Features page.
  • A picture in a note now shows four handles at its corners when you click it. Drag one and the picture changes size, keeping its proportions, and so does the outline you drag, so what you see while dragging is what you get. Undo and Redo now also take back pasting, inserting, resizing and deleting a picture, and in text they go back and forward word by word instead of letter by letter. The corner handles on a picture are shown on the Features page.
  • The progress windows for the network scan and for checking email notes are lighter and quieter, with a thin bar and a small animation of their own: a radar sweeping while the network is read, a magnifying glass over envelopes while your email is searched.
  • Korean, Chinese and Japanese text is now carried through the whole program. Such text pastes into a note whole, and Find, Uppercase, Lowercase, Save as .txt and Open .txt keep it instead of turning it into question marks. A note title in these languages stays whole when you type it, save it, send it, receive it, and when it is listed in Find in notes, Export and Import. Email notes show the text as it is in the note, through Outlook as well as through a direct email account, typing a space in such a note no longer brings up an error, and an email address in it is underlined as a link exactly where it stands. A note whose text or title holds a tilde (~), or many everyday Japanese and Chinese characters, now arrives over the network exactly as it was sent, instead of arriving with the wrong size, colours and border and with its text cut off. A mailto: link now opens the right address.
  • Find in notes no longer shows the Hidden column when Show all notes is protected by a password, since hidden notes are not listed at all in that case.
  • Send note to other was worked over again for the office network. The window now opens with every computer's status, icon and tooltip already in place, remembered from the last check, and only then looks again, changing nothing but what has changed. The list can be sorted by Computer, IP address or Status, and a second click on the heading turns the order around. The search box has a small x at its end while it holds text, and a click on it brings the whole list back. Computers running ShixxNOTE get a teal icon and a tooltip naming the Windows version and ShixxNOTE build they run, in the list of recipients as well as in the list of computers, and devices the program recognizes get an icon of their own: a printer, the router, a Linux computer or an Android phone. A right-click on a computer now offers Show MAC address, since the IP address has a column of its own. Show only available computers starts unticked and can be ticked once the network has been read and at least one computer answers, laptops that are not in the name server show their real address and whether they are on, and when the recipients are exactly the members of a saved group, that group is picked in the list by itself. The computer, email and Send note icons were redrawn in the style of the program's other icons.
  • Your passwords are kept out of sight. The passwords ShixxNOTE stores, for the email account, for network encryption and for Show all notes, are now scrambled in the program's settings file, so they can no longer be read by opening it, and the ones you had saved are converted on the first start. When you type a new password twice, a green tick stands beside "Passwords match" and a red cross beside "Passwords do not match". More about keeping notes to yourself is on the secure notes page.
  • Arrange notes has two more ways to line notes up, Align to bottom and Stack on the left, and its menu is now grouped in pairs. In a note's Theme menu the theme that note is using carries a green tick, whether it is a built-in theme or one of your own, so you can see at once which one is in use.
  • Reading the network at startup is faster, about 15 seconds instead of 20, because ShixxNOTE first finds which addresses are in use and only then asks for their names. The Q&A explains why your notes appear before the scan is done.
  • Fixes: a note that was rolled up when the program started now unrolls to the height it had instead of the default size, which used to cut off a picture in it. Closing the program, or a note expiring, while Send note to other was open for that note no longer crashes ShixxNOTE: Exit closes such a window first, and an expired note waits until its window is closed. The trial period is kept more safely: its start date can no longer be read or changed in the program's files, and deleting them no longer starts the trial over. A trial becomes a full version from the order page.

What's new in Version 7.net Builds 321 to 368 released in October 2026

  • The On and Off switches in Settings are now nearly white when they are off instead of grey, so one glance down a page tells you which settings are on and which are not. The buttons along the bottom of Send note to other, Send note, Refresh, Save group, Delete group and Close, are a little taller.
  • The setup now offers all thirteen languages the program itself speaks, Croatian, Korean and Chinese among them, and the language you pick while installing is the one ShixxNOTE comes up in the first time you start it. The full list of languages is on the Features page, and the installer itself is on the Download page.
  • The notice that a note has arrived now fades away instead of vanishing, the way a hidden note does, and it stays up for five seconds instead of seven. It also shows the sender's name whole and in bold, so you can tell at a glance who wrote to you.
  • Send note to other was reworked from top to bottom for everyday use in an office network. The window is wider and clearer, the box above the computer list searches it as you type and shows an example of what fits there, each list says how many entries it has, saved groups say how many members they have, and a Status column with a coloured dot tells three things apart: ShixxNOTE is running on that computer, the computer is on but has no ShixxNOTE running, or the computer does not answer at all. There is a column for the IP address, a separate box that lists only the computers running ShixxNOTE, and addresses where nothing answers are left out, so machines switched off long ago stop appearing. The computer and email icons in both lists are twice as large and drawn in the classic Windows style, a monitor for a computer and an envelope for an email address, and the list no longer flickers while it fills.
  • All eleven built-in sounds for the note alarm and for a received note were made anew, fuller and more natural, under the same names, so the sound you had picked stays picked.
  • Settings was rebuilt in the Windows 11 style. The pages are listed down the left side with large icons, the open page has its title above it and a line underneath explaining what it is for, and every Yes or No setting is now a switch with On or Off written beside it instead of a pair of radio buttons. Two pages are new: Email, which gathers the email settings that were on the Network page and names the account in use, and Backup, which lists the daily copies of your notes, says how many are kept and can make one right away. The email account and the sounds now sit right on their own pages, there is a choice of how round note corners are, a new Note spacing setting (Compact as until now, or Comfortable), and a setting that keeps the ShixxNOTE icon on the taskbar instead of hidden away. The rows sit closer together, every row ends on the same edge, the language flag is a size bigger and drawn afresh, and the Outlook and Gmail logos on the Email page are larger and level with their choices.
  • Arrange notes has a new Arrange in a grid item that lays your sticky notes out as a table: four notes make two by two, nine make three by three, with the same gap between them across and down.
  • The daily copies of your notes now live in your Documents, in a folder called ShixxNOTE Backup, and the Backup page of Settings names that folder again. Copies made before this build are moved there on the next start, and the page no longer points at the folder your notes file lives in. More about keeping notes to yourself is on the secure notes page.
  • A note sent to a computer that has nothing at all installed can now be followed by an email telling that person what is waiting for them and how to let plain Windows messages through, which is useful when a colleague is reachable but not yet set up. The offer can be switched off in Settings, Network. See how notes travel without any internet connection.
  • When you write a reply to a note you received, the other computer shows under that note that you are typing, so a short exchange reads like a conversation. It works between computers running this build or newer and can be switched off in Settings, Network.
  • Notes themselves have a new look. They have rounded corners on Windows 11 and a soft shadow, and the Close and roll-down buttons are larger, without a frame, and light up when the mouse is over them. A pin next to the close button keeps a note above other windows, so Stay on top has left the note menu: the pin lies over while the note is free and stands upright and filled once the note is pinned, and it takes its colours from the note's theme. Every note now has a bar along its foot saying when it was last changed, with the date written in the format you picked in Settings, and the first minute reads just now. A new Set corner item in the note menu lets each note be rounded, slightly rounded or square on its own, and Note spacing can give a note a taller title bar and more room around its text.
  • A new program icon: a note held by a drawing pin, drawn afresh for every size from 16 to 128 pixels, so it stays sharp in the tray, on the taskbar and in Explorer, and redrawn once more so the note is no longer cut off at the edge of the picture. You can see the program's windows on the Screenshots page.
  • Two more date formats for the note title write the month by name, and a picture of a note can now also be saved as PNG. The welcome note on a first start is tall enough for its own text again, with no scrollbar and nothing cut off, and it now says that notes travel over the network encrypted and that ShixxNOTE finds the computers on the network for you.
  • A saved group of recipients, or a theme of your own, can be called "Shixx & Mail": the ampersand is now shown in the note's menu instead of disappearing. And every question the program asks now comes up in front of the window you are working in: deleting or saving a group of recipients from Settings used to ask behind the Settings window, where the answer could not be given.
  • Every pinned note now stays above your other windows. Until now, unpinning one note, or a note arriving or an alarm going off, quietly took all the other pinned notes off the top as well: the pin stayed upright, but the note was no longer there. More about the pin is on the Features page.
  • Fixes: a note received from the network no longer shows two patches of colour on the bar at its foot, a title too long for the note leaves out the time instead of breaking off mid character, rolling a note up no longer moves that bar into the title, and a note title set to the left or to the right stays that way after a restart instead of coming back centred. In Send note to other the arrow beside the list now moves the computer you picked rather than the text you typed to find it, and typing a name that leaves one computer picks it. The language flags are no longer cut off at the right edge, and the message about email that is not set up now points at the Email page in Settings.

What's new in Version 7.net Builds 301 to 320 released in September and October 2026

  • Arrange notes can now also stack the notes on the right, in a column under the rightmost note, which stays where it is. Notes on a second or third screen are arranged on that screen.
  • A new Arrange notes menu by the tray icon tidies your desktop. Align to top lines the notes up along the top edge, Tile with equal gap sets them side by side with the same space between them, and Undo arrange puts every note back where it was. Notes keep their size, hidden notes are left alone, and each monitor is arranged on its own. The gap between notes is set in Settings (15 pixels to start with), and the note page of Settings is now laid out more evenly. Arranged notes on the desktop are shown in the screenshots gallery.
  • You can now send larger notes over the network, up to 8 MB each, and the file where your notes are kept can grow to 32 MB. Fixed long notes being cut off after about 32,000 characters. The Q&A answers how long a note may be.
  • ShixxNOTE responds faster when the file where your notes are kept is full and old notes have to be deleted.
  • A note that arrives now announces itself with a notification and a sound, so you notice a new note even when it lands behind other windows. The notification always appears next to the tray icon, as a small balloon that ShixxNOTE draws itself, so it shows up reliably on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Notes reach colleagues over the office network.
  • Fixed sending a note with a picture over the network. A note with a picture in it can be sent to a colleague on the LAN again, exactly as before, even on a network with no internet at all.
  • Receiving a note with a picture no longer fills up the file where your notes are kept. The limit was raised, and if the file ever does become full, ShixxNOTE now tells you so with a clear message, translated into every one of its languages.
  • A picture that is too big for a note can now be shrunk to fit. When you insert an oversized picture, ShixxNOTE offers to scale it down so it still drops straight into the note instead of being turned away.
  • The message shown when a picture is too big to add to a note is now clearer, so you can tell what happened and what to do about it.
  • Every new note now opens in a random theme by default, so a fresh note comes up in a different colour each time instead of always the same one. You can switch this off in the settings if you would rather every new note looked alike. All of the note themes are shown on the sticky notes page.
  • A note with a picture in it can now be sent over the local network, so a colleague on the LAN receives the note with its picture in place, exactly as you see it.
  • The welcome note that greets you on the first start has a refreshed graphite look.
  • You can now insert a picture into a note. A new "Insert picture..." command in the note's own menu lets you choose a picture file such as BMP, JPG or PNG and place it straight into the note, where it is kept and reopened together with the note's text. A picture that is too large is turned down with a short message, so a note always stays light. More about pictures in a note is on the Features page.

What's new in Version 7.net Builds 208 to 300 released in September 2026

  • Notes can now be encrypted. A note sent over the local network and a note sent by e-mail can both be encrypted, so the text stays unreadable to anyone who intercepts it and is put back together only on a computer running ShixxNOTE. On top of that the "Show all notes" password can be longer than before, and notes arriving from other computers or by e-mail are handled more safely.
  • ShixxNOTE now offers its interface in thirteen languages. A new Language option in General settings switches between English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Chinese and Croatian, each shown with its flag. The choice takes effect at once, without a restart, and reaches the notes already on your desktop. Every dialog, menu, tool tip and message box is translated, and Japanese, Korean and Chinese text that used to appear as question marks now shows correctly.
  • Your notes are now backed up automatically, once a day, so a bad edit or a missing file need never lose them. All of the program's files are also kept together in one folder, and ShixxNOTE finds and moves anything an older version left elsewhere on every start, so nothing is lost when you update. The Q&A answers whether a note can be lost on a restart.
  • A new "Find in notes..." item in the tray menu searches the text of every note at once and takes you straight to the one you are after, which keeps a large pile of notes easy to work with.
  • You can now choose the sounds ShixxNOTE plays: your own sound for a received note and, new in this build, your own sound for a note alarm. Both accept .wav and .mp3 files, come with a set of built-in sounds to pick from, and offer a Play button so you can hear a sound before you choose it.
  • A welcome note now greets you the first time you start ShixxNOTE, so a new desktop is never empty. It says hello in the language of your Windows, and ShixxNOTE itself starts in that language too when it is one of the thirteen it speaks. The note shows the program logo at the top and five short tips: how to create a new note, how to change its colours, theme and font, how to set an alarm, how to send it to a colleague and how to find a note again. It is signed by the author and sized so that all of its text fits, in every language.
  • Notes keep more of what you put in them: accented letters are preserved in the names and titles of notes sent over the network and by e-mail, each note's position on screen is saved when the program or Windows closes, and long notes, or several sent in quick succession, now arrive complete.
  • A received note now shows the full date and time in its title without ever cutting it off, new notes open in the modern Segoe UI font, and there are three more date formats to choose from for the title.
  • Printing a note was reworked: it now sits in the note's File submenu and prints at the right size, with proper margins and the note's title on the page. A new "Set transparency" item lets a note blend into the desktop.
  • A note you export is kept in a .shx note file, and such a file now opens straight from Windows Explorer. ShixxNOTE registers itself for .shx files at every start, with its own icon and the name ShixxNOTE Note Export, so a double click, or Open with, starts the program or hands the file to the copy already running. It then says how many notes the file holds and asks whether to create them on your desktop, where they come up exactly as they were exported. Because AutoCAD and GIS shapefiles use the same extension, ShixxNOTE adds itself to the Open with list rather than taking .shx over. The whole feature is described on the Features page.
  • Your notes have far more room and are kept more carefully. The notes file may now grow to 2 MB instead of the old 60 kB before ShixxNOTE asks you to clear out old ones, a note is written in one go, and a note or an email note longer than 10 kB is no longer cut short. Every note is also read back after it has been saved, so a note that did not reach the file is reported to you instead of quietly disappearing.
  • A burst of incoming notes can no longer block the program: at most twenty notes a minute are taken from the network, damaged ones are dropped quietly, and everything turned down is reported in a single tray message. A note that arrives without a sender no longer comes back after a restart with ANONYMOUS in front of its title, and a note's font is always built from a clean description, so a title can no longer come out condensed or slanted by chance.
  • Under the hood, the program now keeps an error log that makes any problem easier to track down, sending a note to a computer without ShixxNOTE works on 64-bit Windows, and every menu and button icon is now shown in colour. If you ever need to send that log in, the author's address is on the contact page.

What's new in Version 7.net Build 207 released in September 2026

  • Fixed notes being lost, one on every start of the program. ShixxNOTE trusted a stored count of how many notes it had, and that count was never lowered when a note was deleted. On the next start the program loaded the notes it could find, renumbered them to close the gap the deleted note had left, and then removed the last entry as surplus. The renumbering had only happened in memory, so the entry it removed was still the only saved copy of a real note, and the same thing happened again on every following start. The program now reads the notes it actually has from the file instead of trusting the count, closes the gap in the file itself, and deletes an entry only after the note has been safely written to its new place. Every note still in the file, including any a wrong count had been hiding, comes back the first time this build is started.
  • A note too long to be sent over the network is now turned down with an explanation instead of putting the program at risk. The program noticed the size and said so, and then copied the note into a space of exactly that size anyway, writing past the end of it. The note is now simply not sent, and the message names the note's length and the limit so you know how much to shorten it by. The warning also no longer appears when a note is sent by email, where the network limit does not apply at all.
  • Four new note themes were added to the note's Theme menu: Purple, Red, Candy and Green Mint. The twelve supplied themes covered blue, green, pink, yellow, orange, gray and brown, but there was nothing anywhere near purple and nothing red at all. All four are pastel with black text, and they join the pool a random theme for a new note is picked from. Existing users get them automatically the first time this build starts; themes you have saved yourself are not touched.
  • A "Restore default settings" button was added to the Settings window, between "Save and Apply changes" and "Cancel". It puts the settings on all three tabs back to what a newly installed program starts with, in one step. It asks before it does anything, and it leaves your notes, saved themes, recipients and groups, the email account and the "Show all notes" password exactly as they are. The settings are restored the moment you answer yes, so "Cancel" afterwards does not bring the old ones back. The Q&A describes putting every setting back as it was.
  • The program no longer waits for the network to be read before it starts. Reading the network neighborhood takes about ten seconds, and until now the notes only appeared on the desktop once it had finished. The reading now runs in the background, so the notes are there straight away. The computers found last time are kept in a file of their own, so opening "Send note to other" while the reading is still going gives you the previous list, and the list replaces itself the moment the new one is ready.
  • The list of computers in "Send note to other" is no longer lost when the network cannot be searched at all. Starting the program with the cable out, or with only a VPN or a virtual machine adapter present, used to save an empty result over the names found the last time the network really was there. The program now tells the difference between a search that ran and found nobody and a search that could not run, and in the second case the names already on record are kept untouched.
  • The "Send note to other" dialog now switches itself off while it is reading the network, so "Refresh" cannot be pressed again before the previous reading has finished. Every further press used to start another complete reading on top of the one already running, and because each reading asks every address on the network at the same moment, the readings piled up and overwrote each other's results. The dialog comes back the moment the reading is done, with the keyboard focus returned to where it was.
  • The font a theme carries now reaches the text you type after switching to it. The font was being set correctly as the note's default, but a rich text editor copies the character in front of it rather than taking the default, so in any note that already had something written in it everything typed afterwards came out in the old font. Nothing already written is touched. All twelve supplied themes use the same Verdana, which is why this was hard to notice; it shows on themes of your own saved with a different font.
  • A note now has a thin line between its title bar and the writing area, so the two read as separate parts of the note instead of running into one another. The line has no color of its own: it is taken from that note's title color, made a little darker when the title is light and a little lighter when it is dark, which is what lets it work on every supplied theme and on any title color you pick yourself. Nothing moved to make room for it, so notes are the same size as before and the writing area starts exactly where it always did.
  • The program's icon was redrawn. The old one held a single 32 by 32 picture in 256 colors with no transparency, so every other size Windows asked for was stretched from it, and at 16 pixels, the size in the title bar and in the tray beside the clock, it had turned into a gray smudge. The icon now carries six pictures (16, 24, 32, 48, 64 and 128 pixels), each drawn for its own size. It shows the same note, title bar, exclamation mark and torn-off corner as before, now in the colors the program uses for its own notes.
  • Saving a note as a picture no longer needs a separate library shipped alongside the program. FreeImage.dll is gone, and the note is now captured once and written straight out by GDI+, which is part of Windows itself, with no second file on disk in between. A note saved as a BMP is now an ordinary 24 bit picture instead of a 16 bit one carrying a color table it had no use for, so it is a good deal smaller, and a JPG is written at a set quality of 90.

What's new in Version 7.net Build 188 released in August 2026

  • Changing a note theme no longer strips the formatting out of the note. Picking a different theme used to reset the whole text to one font, one size and one color and remove bold, italic and underline everywhere. A theme now changes only what a theme is about: the note background, the title bar colors and the border. Everything already written keeps its font, its size, its color and its emphasis. One thing to keep in mind: a note written in a light color may need that color changed by hand after switching to a light theme, and the other way round.
  • The program no longer freezes while a note fades away. Deleting or hiding a note fades it out over about a second and a half, and for the whole of that time nothing else in the program answered, not even the tray menu. The fade now runs in the background, so everything else carries on working while a note disappears, and deleting several expired notes at once no longer holds the program up for a second and a half per note.
  • The trial version now shows how many days are left before it expires. The count appears both in the About dialog and in the tooltip that shows when the mouse rests on the ShixxNOTE tray icon, and both say plainly when the trial is down to its last day or has already run out. The About dialog also names the build number, which makes it easy to tell exactly which version is installed. Prices and licences are on the order page.
  • Finding the computers on your network is now ShixxNOTE's own work. The program used to start a separate helper, ResolveIP.exe, wait for it to write its findings to a file and then read that file back. The search now runs inside ShixxNOTE itself, on a thread of its own, and asks every address at the same moment rather than one after another, so a full sweep takes about ten seconds. The same computers appear in "Send note to other" as before, but there is no longer a second program to install alongside ShixxNOTE, no need for the .NET framework, and nothing left running in the background when a machine on the network stops answering.
  • The network scan that finds other computers on program start is now more reliable. It no longer hangs on the "Reading network" dialog (which used to also stop your notes from showing), it waits a little longer for slower computers to answer so the recipient list is more complete, and it always finishes on its own.
  • ShixxNOTE now finds computers on networks that do not use 192.168 addresses. Office and larger networks that use 10.x or 172.16 to 172.31 addresses were previously left out of the Send note to other list. The program now picks the network adapter you are really connected through, so a VPN or a virtual machine adapter is no longer scanned by mistake.
  • Fixed the Gmail app password link on the Email account dialog. The link under "Gmail requires an app password" could stay empty or disappear when you switched the email transport. It now always shows and opens the app password page in your browser.
  • Fixed duplicate notes slowly building up in the settings file. A note could be saved under a wrong number and copied over and over. Notes now get their number before they are shown, and the clean-up removes any duplicates that were already stored.
  • You can now send and receive email notes without Outlook. A new Email account... button in Network settings lets you enter your address, password and mail servers directly, so ShixxNOTE works with Gmail and with the new Outlook that no longer supports the old mail interface. Gmail requires an app password ↗. The classic Outlook way still works and stays the default. The Q&A explains sending notes by email without Outlook.
  • Email notes are now read only from the date of the last check onwards, so older notes left in your mailbox are never shown to you twice.
  • ShixxNOTE now follows the visual style of the Windows version it runs on. Buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, combo boxes, lists, tabs and the progress bar are drawn the modern way instead of the old Windows 95 look.
  • All dialogs were redesigned. They use the modern Segoe UI font instead of the old Tahoma and MS Sans Serif, frames and sunken edges around buttons are gone, and the buttons are evenly spaced and aligned with the controls above them.
  • The buttons now carry icons from the Fluent UI System Icons ↗ set that Microsoft also uses in Windows 11 and in Office, so ShixxNOTE looks at home on a current Windows desktop.
  • When a note is sent to a computer that does not have ShixxNOTE running, the program falls back to Windows messaging. It used to report the note as delivered even when it was not. It now checks the real result and, if the note did not get through, explains what has to be allowed on the receiving computer. The Q&A covers opening port 2000 in Windows Defender Firewall.
  • The window shown while the program starts, checks email and cleans its data file now uses a plain progress bar instead of the animated video, and the video file is no longer part of the program.
  • Two settings that no longer did anything were removed from Network settings: the refresh interval for the network neighborhood and the check interval for new email notes.

What's new in Version 7.net Build 152 released in May 2026

  • Modern color palette for initial default note Themes ↗. Fresh and visually appealing colors are now used as the default theme set when the program is first installed.
  • New Close and Minimize Buttons (without BMP images) with a smooth hover effect. Buttons are now rendered without bitmap images, resulting in a cleaner look and better visual feedback on mouse hover.
  • Note now supports clickable URL and email links. URLs and email addresses are detected in real-time as you type.
  • Fixed ampersand character (&) not displaying correctly in the note title bar.

What's new in Version 7.net Build 147 released in March 2024

  • I'm pleased to announce that the ShixxNOTE home page is now secured with an SSL certificate. This means all data transferred between the web server and browser remains private and integral. This is an important step in ensuring the security and privacy of users. Enjoy a safer browsing experience!
  • On the program start new process is started which is scanning your LAN (network neighborhood). This new scanning program finds all devices in your LAN but it will save only computer names and IP addresses assigned, either automatically by DHCP, or by manual configuration. When you click on the note menu item Send note to other, dialog will appear, where you will see in the Network Neighborhood list, all computers found in your LAN. It doesn't mean that every computer has ShixxNOTE 7.net installed on it.
  • On the program start Reading network neighborhood dialog doesn't freeze other windows and now you can see a small video icon on how the program is scanning your network neighborhood.
  • New refreshing images are added to the main program settings dialog. General settings, Default note settings, and Network settings now are redesigned. It looks cool now especially Network settings where there are plenty of options that you can change.
  • There is no more splash image on program startup and also no more option in the General settings dialog to remove it.
  • No more licence-type version. You can now install a program version on all computers in your network neighborhood. You can install ShixxNOTE 7.net registered version in your home or office LAN.

What's new in Version 6.net Build 140 released in May 2018

  • When sending note to client which doesn't have ShixxNOTE program installed, program server side will use MSG command to send the message over local network. This feature works only when ShixxNOTE program is running on Windows 7, Windows 10, or Windows 11. Example would be equivalent of writing this command in Command Prompt window:

    MSG * /server:TEST-LAPTOP "Hello user !!!"

    Where character * in command is wildcard for all users on recipient computer named TEST-PC. So the result of the command above would be Window popup dialog on the client computer named TEST-PC located in your network neighborhood.
  • When program is once installed it will start itself on every Windows startup.
  • On first program start default blank blue theme note is created in the top left corner of your desktop screen. ShixxNOTE tray icon will be first time hidden so if you want to see main program menu including "Settings" dialog you will need to right mouse click on ShixxNOTE icon located near the clock (but hidden because it was never used before).

What's new in Version 6.net released in May 2015

  • Sending note via email is now modified and is now working on Microsoft Office Outlook, Windows Live Mail and Outlook Express. When sending note via email Subject of the email is "ShixxNOTE : Note from COMPUTER" and after that string now is added username and computer name of a sender. This was done because there were some troubles with username and company name (in previous version) after you have received email note.
  • Now you can find Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ↗ on the ShixxNOTE program blog ↗ where you can read articles about user experience. Also there are plenty of articles which can help you if you have problems with program
  • Many new features, improvements and some bug fixes are added in a program. For example smooth transparency effect when deleting or hiding note, auto detect for web URL's and e-mail addresses, etc.
  • Program works on a Microsoft Windows 7 ↗ operating system as well as on the latest Microsoft Windows 10 ↗ operating system (program doesn't require any runtime or framework).
  • Critical security bug fixed ↗ which could cause buffer-overflow.
  • Important bug fixed. All received notes will be visible after computer or program restart. Problem with disappearance of received notes is now fixed.
  • Program now has Windows XP look and feel, also many new effects are added (close and hide note smoothly transparency effect).
  • When you send note to recipient(s) expiration and alarm info are transferred also with note. In version 5.net this was not possible.
  • New field in "Sent from:" (Send to dialog) or in "Default sent from:" (Setting Network dialog) combo box control is added - "Name:". If user sender write his name in edit combo box, that name and sent time will appear in recipient(s) note title.
  • Password must be entered twice when you check option in General Settings dialog "Lock 'Show all notes' main menu item with password".
  • In Expire and Alarm dialogs date format is set to short date. Till now it was long date format and some users experienced problems because long date was to big to fit in date field. So now it is short date format and it will fit for all users and countries.
  • Few minor and major bugs are fixed.
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