CNET Editors' review
The days of cluttered physical desktops, with dozens of yellow notes everywhere, are over. There are plenty of programs to help create virtual notes, but Sticky Notes sets itself apart from the pack with its ease and simplicity.
This free program embeds itself into your tray and creates a new note when double-clicked. Immediately, a square pops up with a Menu button, an option to hide or make the note visible, and a clock at the bottom telling what time the note was created. Typing a reminder is simple and easy and doesn't really differ from any other notes program. Where Sticky Notes gets ahead of its competition is with its options. Clicking on the Menu brings up a long list of ways to customize the program. From setting its priority, to changing the color, setting an alarm, transparency, and even options to print, there are plenty of ways to configure the program to your liking.
Sticky Notes quickly and easily makes notes for anyone interested in staying organized and our complaints are fairly minimal. One big issue we had was that when new notes are created, they stack on top of one another and must physically be staggered. This may cause some notes to get lost in the shuffle. That is a small issue, though, and we recommend this download for anyone looking for notes.
Publisher's Description
From Igor Vigdorchik:
The Sticky Notes application allows you to create electronic sticky notes directly on your Windows desktop. The Sticky Notes are just like paper post-it notes for your computer. Jot down tasks, messages, ideas, appointments, phone numbers, birthdays in a note and stick it on the desktop. A note can be positioned anywhere you wish, or hidden in your task bar, then searched and displayed later. Notes can be re-sized. The note's contents can be formatted to include fonts, colors, transparency and hyperlinks. Also notes have a click thru capability. Once on screen, notes will remain where placed until closed, even through reboots. Alarms can be added to a note to act as a reminder. Sticky Notes application is small and simple and all notes are kept in one text file.
Sticky Notes doesn't require any installation process or additional components and it does not use the registry. Download the zip file and create a new folder in C:\Program Files and name it 'StickyNotes'. Extract the contents of the downloaded file to C:\Program Files\StickyNotes. Click on the StickyNotes.exe. Sticky Notes icon will appear in the Windows System Tray (bottom corner to the right of the Windows taskbar). To start up Sticky Notes every time Windows boots up, add Sticky Notes to your Start-up group. To do this click the button "Create a shortcut in the start-up group" in the Options dialog
To open a new sticky note, double click on the Sticky Notes icon in the system tray/notification area. To access the application menu, right click on the Sticky Notes tray icon. To access the note menu, click on the down arrow in the upper left hand corner. By default, Sticky Notes will stay on top of other windows as indicated by the pin. To toggle that setting, click on the pin once. To close a sticky note, click on the small red power button in the upper right hand corner. Sticky Note saves all of your sticky notes in a .dat file, so don't worry if you closed a sticky note accidentally, you can always retrieve using the Search window.
What's new in this version: Version 2.3 adds the following new features:
- New title bar.
- Note's viewer in the search window.
- earch results auto refresh
- Launch a user specified application when an alarm goes off.
- When a note is rolled up it displays its contents in a tooltip when the mouse hovers over a title bar.
- Indent or unindent a paragraph.
- Hide open notes for a specified time period.
- Title's 'No Color' option (same as note's color).
- Enable... See all new features
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3.6 starsout of 126 votes
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"Well done reminder app"
Version: Sticky Notes 2.3
Pros
Quick and configurable.
Cons
No cons yet.
Summary
Very handy if one likes to use a sticky note method.
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"easy to remember tasks"
Version: Sticky Notes 2.3
Pros
easy to remember tasks
Cons
easy to remember tasks
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"This is just what I've been looking for."
Version: Sticky Notes 2.3
Pros
Can have note stay on top or not. new notes are easy to start. Editing is simple.
Cons
The only thing I would change is the ability to put different size font per note
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"Great handy little reminder note"
Version: Sticky Notes 2.3
Pros
easily to get to, nice colours
Cons
Would like to have folder to pop notes into as I write thing down a month or two ahead.
Summary
Keep up the good work
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