Let Your AI Assistant Leave You a Sticky Note

How to Let Your AI Assistant Leave You Notes

1. Open Settings ▸ “AI Assistant”

   Choose “Settings…” in Peel & Stick’s menu, then “AI Assistant” in the sidebar. Notes from your assistant are part of Peel & Stick Pro.

2. Turn On “Let Your AI Assistant Leave Notes on Your Screen”

   It’s off until you turn it on. Nothing can write to your screen before that.

3. Click “Copy Instructions for Your Assistant”

   The instructions include your private key, so give them only to your assistant.

4. Give Them to Your Assistant

   Paste them into a chat with it, or add them to its instructions file, such as your project’s CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, so every session knows how to reach you.

5. Ask for a Note

   Tell your assistant when you want one: “Leave me a note when the tests pass”, “when the migration is ready”, or “at 4, remind me to call Sam”. When a task is done, a result is ready or a reminder is due, a signed note appears at the top right of your screen.

What a Note From Your Assistant Looks Like

It’s a real Peel & Stick note on real-feeling paper, pinned at the top right of the screen with the menu bar, where you see it without it landing on your work. Each new note steps down and to the left of the last, so several never stack exactly.

• Signed. A small sparkle and the sender’s name sit at the bottom right: “From Claude”, “From Codex”, or “From your assistant” when it didn’t sign. You never mistake it for one you wrote.
• Sized to fit. Short notes are square. Longer ones grow into a tall slip of paper, always the same width, so a row of them stays neatly lined up.
• On the paper it asks for. Canary, Mint or Soft Pink; Canary when it doesn’t say.
• Yours once it lands. Move it, resize it by the corner, tick it off or put it away, like any note you peeled yourself.

Your Assistant Knows Whether It Landed

Every note gets an answer back, so your assistant can tell you what happened instead of guessing:

• On your screen: the note is pinned at the top right.
• On your pad: it couldn’t go on screen, so it waits on top of your pad instead. If you’re typing on that pad at that moment, it goes just beneath the sheet you’re on, so your typing never lands in it.
• Turned away, with the reason: for example, too long, or too many notes in a short time. Nothing is shown, and your assistant can pass the message on.

Safe by Design

A door that puts words on your screen has to be narrow, so this one is:

• Off until you turn it on, in Settings, where it says what it does.
• A private key. Only an assistant you give your key to can leave a note. “Make a New Key” disconnects every assistant you gave the old one to. Anything already running on your Mac can read the key, so it keeps out web pages and other apps that guess, not software you’ve already let run.
• Plain text only, up to 600 characters over 14 lines. Links, formatting and code appear as ordinary words, and nothing in a note can run. Hidden characters and impersonating signatures are filtered out.
• Polite. At most 3 notes a minute and 20 an hour, and a note never takes focus from what you’re doing.
• On your Mac. Peel & Stick has no server; the note travels from your assistant to the app on the same Mac, and nothing leaves it.

Which Assistants Work

Any AI assistant that runs on your Mac and can run a command: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and others. It signs with its own name, up to 32 characters. An assistant that only lives in a web page can’t reach your Mac, so it can’t leave you a note.

Want notes without an assistant? Peel & Stick’s Shortcuts actions create and pin notes from any shortcut.

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