Ok, all of my dear Mac users, go ahead snicker, gloat and smile. Yeah you’ve had this feature for a gazillion years. Well, stickiesforwindows.com offers a utility that Windows should have built into their OS or at least got it right with Outlook, but alas they didn’t.
The primary issue w/ the Outlook notes is that closing Outlook causes all the notes to disappear from your desktop. If you are a user like me and not pleased w/ the memory hog Outlook can be, you don’t keep it open all the time. Also, notes in Outlook don’t repopulate to the desktop when you open the app. So basically, they are a waste as a stickies concept.
Stickies for Windows on the other hand has some great features:
- The stickies stay on the desktop and reappear on reboot.
- The stickies are customizable for font, color and transparency.
- They work like normal windows so they can float above or below other windows.
- For code changes, they work nicely to hold temporary edits, settings or snippets.
- Stickies can be saved as .rtf files, stored or emailed. For quick generation of simple docs, this is a quick word processor.
- Stickies is the lightest third-party option available with the lowest resource utilization which means more computing power.
- It’s simplicity is eloquent with no added bells and whistles to slow it down.
- Stickies are developed with Windows XP standards which means it’s done right to work across current windows installs.
So do yourself a favor and check it out, especially if like me your office becomes adrift in reminder notes and loose paper. It does require the .Net 2.0 environment installed.
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Phil, sticky yellow colored notes were perhaps the only things which we used to have with paper but now that has gone also. these stickies look quite cool though
Yes, I love the simplicity of the app.