1.What is Stickies?
Stickies is a PC utility I wrote to try to cut down on the number of Post-It® notes I was leaving stuck to my monitor. It is a computerised version of those notes.
The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores all information in a single text-based ini file.
Stickies 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.
2.Main features:
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 others edges to keep them lined up
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 touch the registry
...and Stickies is completely free!
Stickies v7.0a Beta 1
2009-09-26
Latest changes:
New features:
· Image stickies
· Unicode titles
· "Show System windows" checkbox in Attach dialog
· Attached stickies can be set to only appear if the window is visible (not minimised)
· "Snap back to transparent" option
· Sticky ID added to properties
· 32 new API commands
· New sticky from clipboard
· Sleep until / Tomorrow added to Sleep menu
· PDA keys can now be entered in Stickies
· Text background highlighting
· stickies.1wk now written after one week of continuous operation
· Live preview of setting transparency
· Control-F now searches text within a sticky
· Stickies can be moved directly from any category to any other in the Manage dialog
· Backup function
· Drop shadow option
· Font name MRU list
· F2 edits the sticky title
· Sticky colour can be set in the Manage dialog
· Sticky colour is now shown in the Manage dialog
· New sticky "force title on create" option
· Individual Desktop stickies can be hidden/revealed in the Manage dialog
· RTL (right-to-left) default option for new stickies, and left shft+control / right shift+control to set paragraphs
· Recovery dialog for when Stickies detects an error with the data file
· "Ghost" mode for Desktop stickies can be set from the Manage dialog so they're not clickable
· Different Stickies can have different skins (alt-s to choose, shift-alt-s to return to default)
· "Locked stickies are also frozen in place" option
· "Rolled stickies have an alternate position" option. Hold shift as you toggle rolled to reset
· Two new global shortcuts, "new sticky from clipboard" and "show manage dialog"
· New sizing method - hold alt and click near the edge of a text sticky to resize it
· A sync of Friends can now be set to happen every X minutes
Fixes:
· Tab order fixed on Properties dialog
· Tab order fixed on Manage dialog
· Tabbing around the options dialog now works better
· Stickies complely within, or surrounding others, are now correctly included in bulk operations
· Bug when unable to store multiple using bulk select fixed - the OK button is no longer grayed out
· "DLL not found" error better handled
· Closing an attached and visible sticky now discards the attach information
· Occasional failure to snap bug fixed
· Links in the About dialog now open more reliably
· Editing the wake time of a sleeping sticky now sets the "user" checkboxes correctly
· Can now add file associations under 64-bit Windows (but still not remove them)
· Double-control taps to bring up the favourite friend list are now more reliable
· Storing a sticky using a skin button now works correctly
· Bulk-storing a number of stickies sets the right title for the sticky clicked
· Enabling SMTP email without specifying an email address now displays an error
· Changes
· It's now clearer the window title and class can be edited in the Attach dialog
· sstore.ini can no longer be imported
· Colour picker dialog improved
· "Default height for text" is disabled when scrollbars are disabled
· Version of Stickies written into data file
· "Open Friends dialog" has moved from Control-F to Control-Shift-F
· The default for dragging from stored to desktop is now move, not copy
· The last selected category in the Manage dialog is now stored
· Manage dialog can now be maximised
· Sleep for > 6 added
· Trying to sleep or set an alarm in the past now displays an informative message
· Alarm borders now fade instead of flashing
· The return code form file:// links is now added to the debug log
· Windows 7 is now recognised
· Added "Sender:" and "Date:" SMTP headers
· Best available Windows file open/save dialog is now used
· Rolled Up / Unrolled menu items
· Right-click menu item in Manage to edit properties of sleeping/recurring/attached
Command line options:
· -close
· -shc:on
· -shc:off
· -recover
· -norecover
· Options dialog rearranged and some text updated for better use of screen, and to keep similar options together. Styles dialog integrated into the Options dialog, and an "Apply now" button added for skin preview
· Alt-r toggles rolled mode
· Alt-c inserts a checkbox
· Number of selected stickies disaplayed when performing bulk operations
· Triple-clicking a line now also selected the CR at the end of the line
· The -hidden command line option is now an checkbox in options
· Long list of "ASticky" entries in Task Manager removed
· Arial font changed to "Arial Unicode MS" in font list
· Closing the application appears to happen faster
· No application restart required to change the "Clicking one sticky makes all stickies visible" option
· Closing a sticky doesn't bring forward another when the "Clicking one sticky makes all stickies visible" option is unchecked
· The text area no longer shows when a sticky using a skin with the "rolled height" larger than the "top gap" is rolled up
· The large text at the top of the About dialog uses a better font
· Stickies can now be sized from the top edge and corners
· Can no longer set a style and then immediately open it by holding shift
· Control-s is now "Save As"
· Exporting to CSV from the Manage dialog now writes a heading row
· The default skin title grab area is wider to also cover the "Attached" indicator
Stickies 6.7a free sticky notes for your desktop
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