The Seeed reTerminal Sticky is a new cute little eink slab with magnets (4 of them) built into the back, snap it to your fridge, a filing cabinet, wherever metal lives. Out of the box it wants to talk to a phone app. I wanted it to talk to a keyboard instead. Meet Sticky MicroNotes, a writing firmware port that turns it into a tiny writer deck-esque note pad device.
It's a port of MicroSlate, rebuilt for the reTerminal Sticky specifically. Pair a Bluetooth keyboard, start typing, notes save as plain .txt files on a microSD card. No app, no account, just a keyboard, a screen and a text file.
- Pairs BLE keyboards; stores up to 4, auto-reconnects on boot.
- Three writing modes: Scroll, Typewriter (single centered line), and Pagination; cycle with Tab.
- Auto-saves after 10s idle or every 2 minutes while typing, plus a write-verify
.bakrotation so a bad write never eats your last good draft. - Clean mode strips the editor chrome down to just your words.
- Wi-Fi transfer at
http://sticky.local— no cable, drag files in from your phone or laptop over your network. - Dark mode, portrait/landscape/inverted orientation, optional gyro auto-rotate.
Nothing about it tries to be clever. Notes are just text files named after their titles, sitting in /notes/ on your SD card, readable on literally anything. Grocery list on the fridge, morning pages before coffee, a stray idea you don't want to lose to your phone's notification hellscape — it's all just there, on a screen that sips power and never asks you to log in.
Try it out today!
