Open up the Options window, you will see 9 tabs of stuff that you can customize. The add/edit features that come with Stickies are already rich but what’s really gone insane is its customization capabilities. Right-click any empty area in the note you will see a full set of the styles available for you to use. Therefore, the editing styles that come with the Stickies are fully loaded.

ĭeep down, each sticky note is a RTF file that can be opened in Word. You can also open a plain image sticky by checking the New stickies are image stickies option in Settings > General tab. You can create new sticky notes not only in a plain text format but also from the content in Clipboard, Screen Area, or Screenshot. The screenshot & screen area stickies have a drawing and annotation toolset built right in, accessed by a right-click.

By default, the Stickies icon is hidden in the system tray, but you can go to Settings → Personalization → Taskbar – Select which icons appear on the taskbar to make it appear right on the taskbar like below. To add a new sticky note with Stickies, you can double-click the Stickies icon at the system tray or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + N if you are already on a sticky note. It’s free, lightweight, robust, and filled with loads of features and offers deep customizations.

Stickies is one of the alternatives to Windows’ built-in Sticky Notes that shines in so many ways. Well, there are a few interesting new things added to the Windows 10 version of Sticky Notes but not nearly enough to convince many who use Evernote, OneNote, or Google’s Keep. First introduced in Windows 7, Sticky Notes is a very useful feature that unfortunately didn’t seem to get any improvements no matter how many releases we’ve been gone through.

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