Quick Note: Fn+Q opens a sticky note anywhere in the system

The phone rings and you need to jot something down immediately — except you've got a presentation or a spreadsheet covering the whole screen. By the time you find a notes app, you've forgotten half the information. Quick Note solves this: press Fn+Q and a small yellowish sticky note opens over whatever you're doing. Type what you need, close it — and the note is automatically saved in the Notes app, in its own folder, synced to your iPhone too. No deciding where to put it, no hunting for the right app in the middle of a phone call.

How to do it

1. Anywhere in the system, press Fn + Q (the Fn/globe key in the bottom left) — a floating Quick Note window opens over the current app, even over full-screen mode.
2. Type. You can drag the window into a corner or resize it if it's in the way.
3. Close it by clicking the X or with Cmd + W — the note automatically saves itself into the Quick Notes folder in the Notes app. Nothing to confirm, nothing to click.
4. Press Fn+Q again and the same last note reopens, so you can keep adding to one note throughout the day. Start a new one with Cmd + N inside the open window.
5. Quick Note can be triggered with the mouse too — assign it to one of the screen's hot corners.
6. A bonus in Safari: add a link to the open page inside a Quick Note, and the next time you visit that page, Safari quietly resurfaces the note for you in the corner of the screen. Add the link with the button right in the note window, or by dragging selected text from the page into the note — it saves along with its source.
7. You can put anything into the note that you'd put into a regular note: bullet points, a checklist, an image from the clipboard. It's not a stripped-down version — just a faster door into the same app.

A typical scenario

An accountant has a month-end close spread across her whole monitor when a client calls with an invoice number and two deadlines. She used to minimize windows and hunt for somewhere to write it down — or scribble it on a sticky note the office cleaner would toss out that evening. Now she presses Fn+Q, types three lines, closes it, and gets back to the close. That evening, on the way home, she opens the note on her phone and transfers the deadlines into her calendar. A week later she has five such odds and ends in the note — every so often she goes through them, deletes what's handled, and turns the rest into tasks.

What you get out of it

Zero friction between "I just thought of something" and "it's written down" — a note is always one keystroke away, with no app-switching and no deciding where to file it. You can throw out the sticky notes around your monitor; this one doesn't get lost, doesn't get thrown out by the cleaner, and you'll find it on your phone too.