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if needed, alarms can be repeated daily or weekly.

alarm can be set to pop-up individual note at given time (including playing custom sound or running desired application).

This way you will soon redefine ATNotes as a handy database, not only desktop notes app. It is possible that you find yourself with 200 notes, having 5 most important notes on desktop, all others hidden.

notes can be hidden, such notes are visible only in global list (for example reference cards you do not need all the time).

there is a global list of all notes available.

there is a search available across all notes.

notes can be put into folders so you can sort them into groups.

deleted notes go to recycle bin so accidentally deleted content can be recovered.

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every note can be minimized (it expands to full size on mouse over the note).

every note can have unique font, color, transparency and optional 2-color gradient.

But the application itself is greatly useful, so until it works well, I recommend it. It is discontinued for years already, and the site is kept published against the will of ATNotes author. I'm using it since Windows XP and it still works consistently in Windows 8.

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Pro Tip: I’ve been writing about Windows 10 for years and have an extensive Windows 10 help library. Please check it out to find lots of additional tutorials and guides while you’re here.My favorite is AT Notes – a freeware. Doesn’t happen? Then you can force a Sync by going to Settings (the gear icon) from the main window in the Sticky Notes app…Ĭlick on the blue “ Sync now” and everything should sync up and you’ll be saying “dang, that’s pretty cool” too.

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Not only that, but if you enter more information or update the Notes in, that change should also be reflected back on your PC Sticky Notes too. Since is Internet based, not actually on your PC, it means you can get to your Sticky Notes from any computer. In fact, they all show up as a folder in Outlook: Yes, because you have to log in to your Microsoft account the program can use the Outlook database to store and sync the notes. To see its best feature, you need to open up your Web browser and go to … STICKY NOTES SHOW UP IN OUTLOOK.COM That’s not the coolest thing about Sticky Notes, though. Don’t worry, they’re all still part of the database and therefore will show up in the main control window, even if you quit and restart the program. And you see the “ Notes list” in the middle? If you close the main window, that’s how you open it up again.Ĭhange colors, type text, move the little windows around, or close them.

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A menu appears:Ĭhoose “Open note” with any of the notes and it shows up as a slim, featureless window:īut wait, there’s more! HOW TO CHANGE A STICKY NOTE COLORĬlick on the top portion of a note and a tiny rainbow of colors appears:Įasy enough. In this instance, I have four sticky notes, any of which can be popped out as its own mini-window by simply clicking on the top right corner. That’s probably what you’ll see show up in the screen:

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Now Sticky Notes works a bit differently to Stickies on the Mac because it has a central window that controls all the other “sticky” notes. Handy, eh? Click on “ Sticky Notes” to fire up the app. It’s easy enough, go to the Taskbar, click on search, then type in “ sticky“:

Here’s how to use Stickies, uhm, Sticky Notes on your Windows PC… HOW TO LAUNCH STICKY NOTES ON WINDOWS No wonder we want them on our computer screens! Finally, though, in 1979 the company tried calling it Post-It Notes and it became a huge hit, now selling more than 50 billion “sticky” notes each year. It still took a few years to reach the market, but 3M released Post-It Notes in 1977, but no-one knew what the heck it was and the company dropped them. Fellow 3M researcher Art Fry got the inspiration to try using it with paper and since he couldn’t find white paper, he used yellow instead. Even better, it’s tied in to Outlook and your Microsoft account so it turns out to have some pretty cool additional features too, features that even Evernote might envy.īut first, a tiny bit of trivia! Who invented Post-It notes, and when? The answer is a researcher at 3M named Spencer Silver, who back in 1968 was trying to make a strong adhesive for aerospace work but ended up with something that was easily removed without any sticky residue. But you don’t need to go there at all, because it turns out that Microsoft has already included a Stickies program with Windows 10. If you’ve checked the Microsoft App Store, you’ll find that there are dozens of post-it type applications available to buy and download, and some even advertise themselves as free.