Skinable desktop notes to remind you of important things to do

Stickies

Stickies

  -  2.8 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    Stickies 10.1d LATEST

  • Review by

    Juan Garcia

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 11

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Zhorn Software / External Link

  • Filename

    stickies_setup_10_1d.exe

Stickies is a PC utility I wrote to try to cut down on the number of yellow notes I was leaving stuck to my monitor. It is a computerized version of those notes.

The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. The software will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores information in a single text-based ini file.

The tool 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.

Features and Highlights
  • Once on screen, stickies will remain where placed until closed, even through reboots
  • Stickies appearance can be customized; fonts, colors, and buttons may be changed, and styles saved. The program can be resized.
  • Stickies can store text or images
  • Stickies can snap to each other and to the sides of the screen to keep them neatly lined up
  • Stickies can be attached to an application, 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.
  • 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
  • International language, Unicode, and RTL text support
  • Stickies works with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8
  • 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
  • API to allow integration with other applications
  • ...and Stickies is completely free!


  • Stickies 10.1d Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

Stickies 10.1d
Changed:
- New command line parameter -linux to make the app more compatible with that OS

Fixed:
- Recurring notes no longer show in the calendar view in Manage before their start date
- Read-only image notes are now more read-only (image transforms no longer work when read-only)
- Note modified date is updated in a few places it wasn't being updated (loading an image into a note)
- Notes set to recur for "every X" start when they should
- Changing the password updates encrypted notes correctly now


Stickies 10.1c
Changed:
- Added more informative errors on a failure to load the language DLL
- Can now drag stacks from Manage to Desktop
- Shift-deleting selected text will "Cut" it. With no text selected, the key press will still "delete line"
- Menu items to change selected text case or size will retain the selection

Fixed:
- Repeating "Failure to backup" message fixed
- Fixed a display issue for help text in Settings when the Scrollbar check box is ticked
- "Screen grab an area" toggle slider fixed
- Sleeping a note past January 2038 no longer crashes Stickies
- RTL shortcut keys now set correctly in the Manage dialog
- Store note dialog now better remembers whether the note should be encrypted
- Recurring notes with a future start time now work correctly after Stickies is restarted


Stickies 10.1a
New:
- Dark mode
- Tags
- The Home tab in Manage is now a bar chart
- Control-Return inserts a horizontal line into text notes
- The on-top setting when notes wake can be copied from what on-top is set to when sent to sleep
- The Manage window can now be set on-top, and set less tall
- Numbers on right hand side of the Manage tree, showing the count of items in that folder/stack/tag
- Additional option for single-clicking the notification area icon: Toggle show/hide all

Changed:
- Desktop notes can be individually selected (hold control and click them) to move or perform an action on those selected
- Holding shift to bulk-select desktop notes draws a border around them
- Entering a password has moved to the bottom the main Manage window
- Method which sets notes as on-top has been changed to improve reliability
- Icons for stored notes in Manage now match their folder icon
- The Settings screen is now shorter, and can be scrolled
- Removed the status icons from ontop/rolled/scrollbar/readonly menu items
- The Manage Choose window height is saved
- Selecting text in a hyperlink is easier
- The list in the Manage window remembers the position when deleting items
- Skin paths when saved in the App or Data directories are stored as relative paths (to help portable app users)
- Toggle switches are animated
- The selection highlighing in the Manage tree feels a little more reliable
- Option to show sample content and title now applies to both normal and compact lists
- "60" in sleep menus is now the more useful "90" (60 minutes is an hour, 60 days is two months)
- Lowered the brightness of the "Hole in white screen" screen grab whiteness
- "Create new tag" and "Add to items" buttons are hidden from the tag set dialog when using it to set a search filter
- Dropping an image into an empty text note now sets a title from the file, as the note gets converted to an image note
- Moved a few dialog controls around to allow for easier translations
- Desktop notes being put into a stack are now de-selected as they do that
- Improved the colour choose window
- Added plusminus to skins
- Option added to always check desktop notes for rescue on create
- Now saves the store dialog height on both cancel and OK
- Skin actions for setting text case and tab stops added
- The Manage window can now be maximized
- Updated SQLITE library from 3.22 to 3.33
- API: OnCopyData now returns TRUE when the message is handled
- Improved editing recurring notes - the next wake time is retained for "every X"
- Right-clicking for a menu in the space under the tree in Manage lets you create a top-level folder
- Deleting an item in the list in the Manage dialog retains the selection position in that list
- New API command get list folders
- New API command do reindex

Fixed:
- Selecting Settings from the tray button jump list now works again
- Two swapped drop lists on "New Notes" tab put back where they should be
- "Wake a copy" icon fixed
- Using control-shift-drag to copy multiple notes with mixed content (text and image notes) now works OK
- Setting no longer sets 100% transparent (invisible!) notes
- Bug with copying stored notes fixed
- Menus are now per-monitor DPI aware (size correctly according to the screen they open on)
- Storing notes to a force-encrypted folder now always works
- Control-dragging mixed groups of text and image notes now copies both types
- Can no longer open multiple title/source/text dialogs at once for notes
- Column width in the Multiple Send Results dialog fixed
- Negative numbers can now be put into "New note" co-ordinate boxes
- Internal database lost categories saved better (may cause some long-lost notes to appear)
- Better localisation of dates
- Searching by note id now works for all note classes, not just desktop
- Changing a note title in the Manage Choose dialog now works
- Fix for search field not being filled when storing a note in Manage
- Editing path links no longer strips the initial character of the friendly name
- Fix for search field not being filled when storing a note in Manage
- Saving styles from the context menu fixed
- Bulk moving stack windows now saves all positions correctly


Stickies 10.0d
Changes:
- 01/01/1900 is now blank in the list in the Manage dialog

Fixes:
- Fixed note Properties menu item to not display an error "Encountered an improper argument"
- Bug with [categories] table fixed better (not requiring two restarts of the app)
- Stand/Hang drop box in Settings is now set up correctly
- Stacking/unstacking status now gets saved better
- The "New folders are encrypted" setting now works (and isn't linked to "keep sorted")
- Data files on UNC shares are now supported
- Incoming network note styles are set
- The "scrollbars" setting for new notes is honoured
- Crash fixed after a note set to "solo" is slept or closed
- Saving content from the Manage list with a " in the title now works
- Altering the "Keep text contents encrypted" setting immediately updates the icon


Stickies 10.0c
Changes:
- Number of stack menu items with an icon raised from 32 to 64

Fixes:
- Tiny one-pixel title bar error in high DPI skins fixed
- Stickies no longer locks up at start, after having created a new data file


Stickies 10.0b
- Change log not available for this version


Stickies 10.0a
- Change log not available for this version