Whenever I sit down at a strange computer the first thing I miss is Firefox. I just can’t understand why people would continue to use any other browser. The second thing I miss is Tom Revell’s Stickies. I can’t live without it, and neither can you. Fortunately Stickies is free so you don’t have to. Here is a list of features directly from Tom’s site (please excuse the spelling…Tom is one of Her Majesties subjects):
- 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 other and to the sides of the screen to keep them neatly lined up
- Stickies can be attached a web site, document or folder so they only show when it’s on screen
- 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 alter the registry
- AD network administrators can use Group Policy to control settings
Stickies is beautifully implemented, well-documented and, astonishingly, it’s free. We think you’ll love it. (PC Advisor, August 2003)
I make regular use of a program called Stickies, which puts electronic Post-Its on my screen. (Lee Dembart, International Herald Tribune)
There are other electronic note programs, but none as good as Stickies. If you are not using it you should be.