TalkingStickies

What is TalkingStickies and what is it for?

TalkingStickies is a Holochain app for shared visual boards — digital sticky notes and a kanban board — that a small group uses together from their own machines. Each participant's copy keeps the board's data and shares changes with the others, so a shared workspace belongs to the people using it rather than to a hosting service.

TalkingStickies is a Holochain app for shared visual boards, published in the Holo-Host organisation's GitHub account alongside a companion kanban app, KanDo!. Its README describes the pair as "Holochain hApps for collaborative boards: sticky-notes and KanBan", with real-time collaboration "delivered by syn", and notes that the work was inspired by Ideaboards. The repository also carries the topic "we-applet", placing it among Holochain apps meant to be embedded in a host environment.

In use it is a small set of board tools a group shares: a sticky-notes board and a kanban board, each person running their own copy and seeing other people's changes arrive as they are made. Release notes describe participants being shown while a board is open, and boards being listed, joined and archived. The design intent is that the board's data lives with the people on it, so a shared workspace is not tied to one company's servers.

A concrete example: a team planning something could keep agenda items on a shared sticky-notes board and follow-up tasks on the KanDo! kanban board, with each participant's app holding a copy of the data. The repository README is where to learn more, documenting both a packaged install path and a local development run. As the project's release listing records, its newest releases date from 2023 and were prepared for Holochain versions from that period, so what is documented there reflects that time.

From 2 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.