QuinSlate

July 20, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

QuinSlate - The fastest place to put a thought down

A lightweight, always-at-hand scratchpad for Windows. QuinSlate lives in the system tray and gives you five persistent text slates you can summon with a global hotkey. Jot notes, stash clipboard snippets, do quick inline math, and have it all autosaved to plain text.

Download from the Microsoft Store

Features

  • 5 persistent slates - named, emoji-tagged, autosaved to plain .txt.
  • Global hotkey - (Ctrl+Shift+Q) to toggle the panel from anywhere.
  • System tray icon - with left-click toggle and context menu.
  • Peek panel - glance at a buffer without stealing focus.
  • Inline calc - type an expression, get the result.
  • Pin on top - single-instance, and launch-on-login support.

Stack

WinUI 3 on .NET 10. Tray icon, global hotkeys, and always-on-top are Win32 via P/Invoke. State persists as plain text in %AppData%\QuinSlate\. MSIX-packaged.

Build

dotnet build QuinSlate.slnx
dotnet test QuinSlate.slnx