May 10, 2013
It won't be until you actually give digital sticky notes a try that you'll understand how useful and effective they are. I won't argue that physical sticky notes pressed around your desk or monitor is an unbeatable solution, but it also isn't the prettiest, fastest, or cleanest. If you use a desktop or laptop, sticky notes are especially useful because of how many applications offer to bring them right to your desktop.
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February 19, 2013
You may often come across a small detail you’d like to remember when you’re out of the house. If you have an Android device, you can always save it into Evernote or OneNote for Android; but personally, sometimes I find these apps an overkill, and end up emailing myself a single line instead. With Floating Stickies, a free app for Android, I may no longer have to do this.
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February 26, 2012
Through the use of sticky notes, I feel like I've been able to just about double my daily productivity. Being able to have physical reminders that nagged for certain tasks to be completed was a real help when I used pen-and-paper notes. The days of pen and paper are over though, and I'm at my computer a lot more often than I am at a work desk. Eventually, I found that pinning notes to my desktop was just as effective a strategy.
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February 1, 2012
Based on what I've seen, Stickies (the desktop version – not the dashboard) is a built-in Mac app that doesn't seem to get a whole lot of love. However, in all truth, it's actually an extremely useful tool whether you want to use it for a long-term project or something simply short term. As a virtual form of the standard office sticky note, it definitely packs a punch.
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November 10, 2011
The other day, I realized something that both shocked and delighted me. In the entire span of MakeUseOf’s existence, its authors seem to have missed one application which I deem absolutely essential to my day-to-day experience - the free and awesome Stickies by Zhorn Software. In a nutshell, it’s an application that lets you create little “sticky notes” and put them all over your screen.
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March 6, 2011
There is no limit to the way that you can collection information that you have found online, from bookmarking services like Delicious, to the more elaborate Evernote and it’s alternatives. Using a very visual and organized method to collect information and notes, especially when in a collaborate environment can prove to be a great way [...]
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November 17, 2010
I’ve never been much of a “notes” type. Every time I try out a new notes management system, I usually give up using it within just a few weeks. I found Mark’s article on Evernote’s integration with Android pretty compelling, so I had to give it a shot for a short time. We’ve also covered [...]
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March 21, 2010
Back in the 1960s Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M, accidentally developed a weak adhesive instead of a super glue. Rather than writing it off as a failure, he promoted his invention as a “low-tack, reusable pressure sensitive adhesive.” Several years later, Art Fry, a colleague of Dr. Silver, used the weak adhesive to [...]
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February 28, 2010
How do you keep your notes? Do you stick them to your monitor or do you scribble them onto a notepad? Notes are a quick and easy way to keep track of random, but significant thoughts and ideas. They can also help you to remember important phone number, things you need to get done or [...]
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June 17, 2009
Perhaps you have a habit of pasting small yellow pieces of notes all over your table just to remind you to do a particular task. In this technological era, that is soon becoming obsolete. Mac OS X and Windows 7 both come with their own native sticky note applications that you can use to “paste” [...]
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May 30, 2009
WebNotes is a company I’ve covered before here at MakeUseOf, and one I’m a big fan of ““ it’s an application that lets you highlight, annotate, and save web pages to make your research easier. No more digging through pages to find the six words you needed ““ you can save it as a highlighted [...]
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March 31, 2009
I have a PC. Therefore I am perpetually jealous of those Mac users that have the Dashboard with sticky notes built right in. It’s the perfect way to take a quick note without any frills or formatting, that you can deal with later. There are “equivalent” applications for a PC but nothing that measures up. [...]
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December 13, 2008
I do research all the time, and it’s always on the Web. Even when the material comes from a “book” (remember those?), odds are I found a snippet of it on Amazon or read it on Google Books. All the research I do is on the internet, whether it’s for school, Make Use Of or [...]
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November 24, 2008
Someone had once remarked that simplicity is making the journey of life with just baggage enough. Sometimes, I try to apply the same axiom to my “˜soft aware’ life too. And that involves squeezing the maximum juice out of what’s available in my computer. One thing that has always been available since the last 20 [...]
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November 19, 2008
I used to be addicted to sticky notes. There I said it… The kids in the mail room were bringing me a few new packs daily. I stuck them everywhere. On monitors, servers, laptops even on interns. (Hey I have problems remembering names more than IP addresses!) So when I came across this simple <1MB [...]
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