Pin a note to one sheet tab and it shows only on that tab — switch tabs and it's gone. Or scope it to the whole spreadsheet, so it rides along on every tab.
You're deep in a big spreadsheet — a Summary tab, a Q3 tab, a dozen more. A note about the Q3 numbers shouldn't be floating on the Summary tab, but desktop sticky notes have no idea which sheet you're looking at. So the reminder for one tab follows you everywhere, or gets buried, and the note and the cells it's about are never lined up.
TackNote reads the sheet's gid from the URL — the bit that changes when you click a different tab. Pin a note while you're on the Q3 tab and it sticks to that tab, hidden on the Summary tab and every other one. Switch back and it's right there.
Some notes belong to the whole workbook, not one tab. When you tack, choose "this sheet" or "whole document." Whole-document notes ride along on every tab of the spreadsheet, wherever you are in it.
Open TackBoard, see a note, click Reveal — TackNote reopens the exact spreadsheet in your browser, on the tab the note belongs to. The note is the shortcut back to the work.
Browsers are a Full-tier integration — TackNote scopes web notes to the page URL. For Google Sheets that means the spreadsheet's document id and the tab's gid, so a note can live on one tab or the whole workbook.
Pin a note to a single tab using the gid in the URL. It shows only on that tab and hides on every other one. No per-cell or per-range guessing — clean, per-tab scope.
Choose "whole document" and a note rides along on every tab of the spreadsheet, scoped by the document id. One note for the whole file when that's what you need.
The same note can appear in Chrome, Safari, and other browsers, matched by URL — and it follows you across your Macs through your own iCloud, encrypted.
Notes, voice memos, and transcripts are encrypted. Nothing lives on our servers: sync runs through your own iCloud, and our only analytics is an anonymous version number sent once on first launch.
A spreadsheet is rarely one thing. It is a stack of sheet tabs, and a note about the Q3 forecast tab has no business appearing while you are in Raw Data. Google puts enough in the URL to tell them apart, and TackNote uses exactly that.
A Sheets URL carries the document id, and the active sheet tab adds a gid. A whole-document note keys on the document; a note scoped to one tab keys on the document plus that gid, so it appears on that tab alone.
Sheets URLs collect query parameters that mean nothing about identity: pli, usp, authuser and friends. The key is built from the document id and the tab marker only, so those cannot break a note's binding.
Choose the whole document and the note keys on the container, deliberately dropping the tab marker. Otherwise a whole-document note would silently narrow to whichever tab happened to be open when you wrote it.
The same machinery covers the rest of Google Workspace, and TackNote adjusts what it calls things: a tab in Sheets is a sheet, a section in Slides is a slide, everything else is a section. Small wording, but it is the difference between a prompt that reads like it knows the app and one that reads like it was written once for everything.
"The note about the Q3 numbers stays on the Q3 tab. Right where the work is — not floating on the desktop."
Yes. TackNote reads the tab's gid from the spreadsheet URL — the part that changes when you switch tabs — so a note pinned to one tab shows only there and hides on all the others.
Yes. When you tack a note, choose "whole document" and it appears on every tab of that spreadsheet instead of just one.
Yes. Web-page notes sync through your own iCloud, encrypted, so the same note follows you from one Mac to another.
Yes — all major browsers, including Safari and Chrome. The same note can appear across them, matched by the page URL.
Yes — a 7-day free trial, no credit card required. After that, a one-time $24.99 license unlocks TackNote on up to 3 computers.
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Every note is sealed with AES-256 encryption the moment you write it — the key lives in your Mac’s Keychain, never on a server. Switch on iCloud sync and your notes are encrypted on your Mac before they travel through your own iCloud. Apple holds the keys to that sync unless you turn on Apple’s Advanced Data Protection, which makes it end-to-end encrypted and readable only on your devices. No accounts, no trackers, no servers we control. Not even we can read your notes.