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Free beta for Windows 11
Your notes, docked at the edge of the screen.
Dockables is a side dock for Windows. It sits on the left or right edge of any monitor and keeps that space the way the taskbar does, so maximised windows make room. Notes, lists, reminders, linked folders and your day by the hour are one click, or Ctrl+Alt+N, away.
Invited email addresses sign in to the download portal with a one-time code. Beta builds are unsigned previews.
WHAT IT'S GOOD FOR
Small jobs that usually get lost between windows.
Dockables is always on the edge of the screen and never on top of your work, so it is the place for the things you would otherwise jot on paper.
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Quick capture while you test an app
Press Ctrl+Alt+N in the app you are testing, type what you saw, press Esc: the note is saved and you are back where you were. The dock keeps its own strip of the screen, so a maximised app stays fully in view beside it.
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A project or order folder, in the note
Link the folder to the note about it. Browse it from the dock, open a file, copy it, or drag it straight into an email.
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A plan for the day
Daily Do lays out today hour by hour. Click an hour, pick the minute, and the note sits there; the calendar beside the dock shows the week or the month.
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Reminders that don't get lost
A reminder goes off as a notification or an alarm, then waits behind the bell until you tick the note done or move it. Unfinished notes from earlier days wait at the top of Daily Do.
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Hands-free notes
Click the microphone in a note and speak: the words appear as you talk. Dictation runs on your PC with its speech model included, so it works offline, and voice commands such as “new line”, “comma” and “scratch that” do what they say.
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Timers and a stopwatch
The clock button opens a stopwatch with laps, and a timer with a reminder note: tap 1 to 9 for minutes, or say “10 minutes check the oven”. The timer counts down on a chip at the top of the dock and rings with your note. Ctrl+Alt+T opens it from any app.
THE DOCK
A dock that behaves like the taskbar.
Dockables is a real Windows AppBar. Other windows never sit under it, and it gives the space back the moment it closes.
- Left or right edge of any monitor. Drag the dock by its top bar and drop it on an edge; a preview shows where it will dock.
- A category bar beside it. A narrow strip of your categories, with their colours and counts, docked with it. Hover a category and click + to start a note in it: two clicks from the rail to typing.
- Collapses to a thin rail. One click on the rail opens it again, with the caret ready in your note.
- Floats when you want it to. Floating, it is a normal window: resize it from any side, minimise it, or maximise it with Windows' snap layouts.
- Remembers where it lives. Each PC keeps its own edge, monitor and width. If that monitor is unplugged, the dock waits on the main one and goes back when it returns.
- Light or dark, following Windows' app mode as you switch.
NOTES
Every note is a card, with add-ons.
+ Note puts a new card on top with the caret in it. Its title follows your first words until you rename it. Open the ☰ strip on a card to add what it needs.
Schedule
Today or Tomorrow, a day picker, and times typed the way you say them: 15:00, 3pm or 0930.
Reminder
At the start or from 5 minutes to a day before: a Windows notification, or an alarm window with sound and snooze for 5, 10 or 30 minutes, while Dockables runs.
Location
Type a place and a map opens beside the dock; Use this place keeps it. Copy link sends it to your phone.
Folder
Link a folder or a file. Browse it inside the note (never above the folder you linked), open a file with its app, open it in Explorer, copy it, or drag it out as a real file. A path missing on this PC says so.
- Formatting as you type: “# ” starts a heading, “- ” a bullet, “1. ” a numbered list; Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I work too.
- Pins and colours: pin a card to the top; its stripe takes its category's colour, or one of its own.
- Search finds titles, text, list items and places in every category.
- Move to files a note in another category without leaving where you are.
DAILY DO
Your day, hour by hour.
The Daily Do button fills the dock with today's hours, the current hour marked, then the next days and the weeks and months after. Every entry is the same note card, still in its own category.
- Minutes first. Click an hour and pick the minute: times already too soon are dimmed, the next sensible time is filled in, and Enter takes it.
- Drag to an hour. Drag a card by its title bar to another hour of the same day.
- Nothing left behind: unfinished notes from earlier days wait at the top, with Move all to today. Missed ones turn red.
A calendar beside the dock
The calendar button opens Day, Week or Month next to the dock, on the same monitor, without moving it. A slider sets how many hours the rows show; click a note to open it, or an empty hour to add one.
STAY ON TOP OF IT
Colours you can find, and a bell that counts.
Categories with colours
Open the categories as a grid, or keep the category bar beside the dock. A category's colour becomes the stripe of its notes, and a note can still have a colour of its own. Double-click a category to rename it.
The notifications bell
Reminders that went off collect behind a bell with an unread count, even on the collapsed rail. Click one to see its note. Tick the note done or reschedule it and the notification goes away by itself.
YOUR NOTES
Kept on your PC. On every PC, if you like.
Notes are saved on this PC as you type. Choose a OneDrive folder, or any folder, and each PC writes its own file there, so two PCs never overwrite each other. When another PC changes a note, it appears here within about a second of OneDrive bringing it down.
- No account to make. Dockables has no cloud of its own; syncing is your OneDrive.
- Folder offline? Notes stay on this PC for the session and are copied over at the next start that reaches it.
- Uninstalling keeps your notes and settings.
ALWAYS AT HAND
- Ctrl+Alt+N
- From any app: the dock opens on a fresh note. Esc saves it and puts you back where you were typing.
- Tray icon
- Click it to open your notes; right-click for New note, Start with Windows, the logs and Exit.
- Start with Windows
- Off until you tick it, in the tray menu or in Setup.
JOIN THE BETA
Free, for Windows 11, and your feedback shapes it.
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Get invited
Already invited? Go to step 2. Otherwise choose Request beta access and send the email: your address is added to the beta list.
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Sign in and download
Choose Get the beta and sign in with your invited email address; Cloudflare emails you a one-time code. Then choose Download for Windows.
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Install and start writing
Beta builds are not code-signed yet, so Windows may say it protected your PC: choose More info, then Run anyway. Dockables docks on the right edge of your right-most monitor.
Requirements
- Windows 11, on a 64-bit (x64) PC. Setup also runs on Windows 10 version 1809 or later, but the beta is tested on Windows 11.
- About 125 MB to download, 260 MB installed (the speech model for dictation is included)
- Installs for your Windows account only: no administrator rights, nothing else to install
- Smart App Control turned off (it blocks unsigned previews)
- OneDrive only if you want sync
Get the beta for Windows
Request beta access
The beta is free. Found a bug or missing something? Send feedback; every message is read.
QUESTIONS
Good to know.
Who can join the beta?
Ask with Request beta access. The download portal lets in only the email addresses on the beta list; you sign in with a one-time code sent to that address.
Is it free?
Yes. The beta is free. All that is asked in return is your feedback.
Why does Windows warn me about it?
Beta builds are unsigned previews, so SmartScreen does not recognise them. Choose More info, then Run anyway. If Smart App Control is on, Windows blocks them and offers no Run anyway; the beta cannot be installed on that PC yet.
Where are my notes kept?
In your Windows account's local app data folder, or in the folder you choose (a OneDrive account or any folder). Each PC chooses its own. Uninstalling Dockables leaves your notes and settings where they are.
Does Dockables need the internet?
Your notes, lists, reminders and Daily Do work offline. So does dictation: its speech model runs on your PC. Only the map beside the dock and update checks use the network. Your notes never pass through Gufinov.
How do updates work?
New beta builds appear on the download portal. Connect Dockables once in ☰ → Settings → Updates and it checks for new versions by itself and asks before installing. Every release is signed, and Dockables checks the signature before it installs anything.
Can it dock at the top or bottom?
Not at the moment: Dockables docks on the left or right edge of any monitor, or floats as a window.
The screen edge stayed reserved after a crash. What now?
If Dockables is ever ended by force, Windows can keep its space. Open Task Manager, select Windows Explorer and choose Restart.