![]() ![]() There’s no adware or spyware downloaded with the program, no ads or anything built into the program itself, and no morally-challenged pre-ticked “choices”. This is a lot of functionality for a free program and I can’t find any catch. I haven’t tested “sharing” a note to Facebook or Twitter but the options are there and, if they don’t work, the copy/paste method probably will. No big deal: just copy the text of the note and paste it into a new email message. The one thing I couldn’t get to work is emailing a sticky note. You can even download different sounds for the alarms and different note backgrounds (called, rather grandly, “themes”). Change the “opacity” of notes so that the screen beneath can show through (which I have found more useful than you might imagine – seeing where desktop shortcuts are hiding, for instance).Lock a note to prevent accidental overwriting or deletion.Change the location of the data file – eg put it in Dropbox.Configure the appearance of notes – colour of note, font, size, bold, italic, underscore. ![]() I’ve been using it for a few weeks now and found it simple (but much better featured than the Windows equivalent) and completely reliable. So, I decided to try to find an alternative.Īfter a few disappointments and false starts (a fact of life when researching software), I came across Simple Sticky Notes. There were suggestions for trying things but, oh dear, this is getting too complicated: the game isn’t worth the candle. A quick Google led me to this Microsoft Technical site and it seems I wasn’t alone. I did find a way of overcoming one of its limitations (not being to find the data file so as to be able to copy it or share it between devices), but this proved more complicated than it was worth.įast forward to one of the recent Windows 10 upgrades, and my Sticky Notes decided not to work at all. Your computer screen doesn’t have to look like this I’ve been using it ever since, despite the fact that its simplicity borders on the simplistic. Back in 2012, I discovered Windows Sticky Notes
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