A PC version of 3M's post-it notes (a clone).
For anybody who is familiar with one of 3M's most famous products, here's a freeware digital version of post-its created by a developer in the UK.
These "stickies" resemble the yellow notes you might stick to your refrigerator. These digital notes are however cleaner and don't leave residue. They act essentially as a widget on your computer desktop.
Unlike items which are placed in the sidebar, these post-its can be pinned anywhere on your desktop. You may also hide them if you wish.
The notes are highly customizable to you're able to completely change the look of your notes such as the font, colour, size and more. For convenience, your customizations can also be saved as presets for future use.
Features of Stickies
- Alarms: Set alarms for notes and reminders.
- Auto-saving: Notes are automatically saved.
- Customizable: Change font, font size, color and style.
- Grouping: Organize notes into groups.
- Lockable: Lock notes to prevent editing.
- Notes: Create notes for yourself.
- Persistent: Notes stay on the screen until dismissed.
- Printing: Print notes
- Reminders: Set reminders for yourself.
- Rich Text: Format notes with bold, italic and underlined text.
- Searchable: Find notes quickly by searching.
- Simple: Intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
- Syncing: Sync notes between multiple computers.
- Transparency: Adjust the transparency of notes.
Compatibility and License
Stickies is provided under a freeware license on Windows from Windows widgets with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 10.1 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can Stickies run on?
Stickies can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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