Stickies - your desktop Post-It® notes
Posted by ClifNotes, Sep 2008, permalink Notes and Reminders
Would you like to have little sticky notes you can place on your Windows desktop?
Giorgos and CC both like these little reminders ...
From Giorgos: in 2005
I think its much better than some commercial software such as Microsoft's or 3M's. I use it in Windows XP but it supports earlier versions of Windows as well. I moved to it from 3M's sticky notes (Lite version). It's more effective, lighter, very fancy and of course is a full version.
Finally, Stickies has caused absolutely no conflicts or bugs in my system after many months of use. The only feature I would like to see in the future is a forum for better support.
Notes from Clif
Good news Giorgos, here's a forum!
http://tomrevell.conforums.com/
Tip from CC:
Sticky follow up
I created a favorites (bookmarks) file from sticky options you can see the difference left is Microsoft and on the right sticky no fancy icons, you can roll it up... key or mouse option sorry about the clarity I'm using the transparency option.
you can build your own sticky window with the skinner app
download at the site or avail yourself to several hundred skins
Its resizable: ctrl scroll
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/skins/skinner.html
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/
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The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores information in a single text-based ini file.
Stickies will never support animated dancing figures, or play "Greensleeves". They are instead yellow rectangular windows onto which you can put some text notes. Once created, they will stay on screen until you take them away. Just like a real sticky piece of paper.
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
Stickies - post your notes on the desktop
Stickies Website - Freeware
reviewed by Giorgos on 14 Nov 2005
Notes from Clif
I have received a number of good tips from Giorgos over the last weeks. Giorgos lives in Greece and often translates program documentation from English to Greek. He recently wrote that he likes this sticky notes tool above all others. Let's find out why.
Review by Giorgos
Stickies is free, and has many users worldwide. It has a skin editor and a big archive of user-made skins. Stickies is a very small download at less than 1 MB and no additional downloads are needed. It's very light in system resources, has a notes backup and show or hide notes options. It even has networking capabilities, although that part is a bit complicated to configure. There are translations for many languages also.
I think its much better than some commercial software such as Microsoft's or 3M's. I use it in Windows XP but it supports earlier versions of Windows as well. I moved to it from 3M's sticky notes (Lite version). It's more effective, lighter, very fancy and of course is a full version.
Finally, Stickies has caused absolutely no conflicts or bugs in my system after many months of use. The only feature I would like to see in the future is a forum for better support.
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Main features:
- Once on screen, stickies will remain where placed until closed, even through reboots
- Stickies appearance can be customised; fonts, colours and buttons may be changed, and styles saved. Stickies can be resized.
- Stickies can snap to each others edges to keep them lined up
- Stickies can be transferred from one machine to another either over a TCP/IP network connection, or by using an SMTP mail server or MAPI client:
- Hierarchical friends list, which may be automatically transferred from other friends
- Play a sound file on receive
- Signature for transmitted or emailed stickies
- Favourite friends, and custom lists can be made
- Stickies can be hidden for a certain period, until a specified date and time, or to wake every day, week or month, to act as reminders.
- Stickies can have alarms set to ensure you notice them at a point you choose
- Stickies can be transferred to and from your Palm or PPC PDA.
- International language support
- Stickies is small and simple, it writes to a single text file, and does not touch the registry
- ...and Stickies is completely free!
