{"id":16058,"date":"2018-12-23T18:58:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16058"},"modified":"2024-08-16T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T17:40:51","slug":"stickies-the-best-free-sticky-notes-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/stickies-the-best-free-sticky-notes-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Stickies: The Best Free Sticky Notes Program\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stickies: The Best Free Sticky Notes Program\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

Last summer a reader asked us what we thought was the best free, no-nonsense sticky notes program. And we recommended a program from UK developer Tom Revell. He’s so proud of his program, he even provides his email address so you can contact him. And he says he tries to reply to everyone that writes to him.<\/span><\/p>\n

How’s the program though? It’s GREAT. Microsoft has been improving the Windows 10 sticky notes program and we’ve written about that here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 But even Microsoft’s highly paid best have not made the Windows 10 sticky notes nearly as good as Tom Revell’s\u00a0 (Zhorn Software) Stickies.<\/span><\/p>\n

What can it do? It can do a lot and we’re going to let Tom tell you about it, but before we give you the page and download links, we need to tell you something.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re using Windows 10 64-bit (and most of you Windows 10 users are) you may get a warning when you start to install Stickies that you need to download a Microsoft C++ redistributable package before you can install and use Stickies. It’s an inconvenience, but you should not let this deter you from installing Stickies. Because Stickies is the best free sticky not program we’ve ever tried. And it’s the only one we know of whose author is confident and proud enough of his program to include his email address so you can write to him with request for help, complaints, or praise.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, if you download Stickies and start to install it and you see this:<\/span>\"Cloudeight
\nClick the link to download the C++ Redistributable Package and install it. After you do click “Check again” and Stickies installer will find it and continue to install Stickies on your computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that we have this out of the way, let’s bring in Developer Tom to tell you all about Stickies…<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Stickies?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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 computerised version of those notes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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 information in a single text-based ini file.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Main features:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n