Stickies for Windows lets you put yellow sticky notes on your Windows desktop, much like the popular Mac OS application. It is very simple, very customizable, and completely free!

Download Stickies Version 3.0.7 (854 KB) - Screenshots Stickies is completely free software. For legal reasons, Stickies comes with no warranty, express or implied. Please read the Stickies license before you install the software.

Stickies has two prerequisites: Microsoft Windows Installer and Microsoft .NET 2.0. If the installer file displays any error messages, you need to install one or both of these packages. More information »

If you are a programmer, you may also be interested in checking out the Stickies source code. Stickies is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

^New! Stickies now supports multi-computer synchronization so you can have the same Stickies on all of your computers. Try it out, and send me feedback!

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If you want to hear about new Stickies features and releases, or if you want to discuss the product with other Stickies users, subscribe to the mailing list on Google Groups:

Stickies will automatically notify you if major upgrades are available when you start the application.

Features

Stickies is purposely simple, but it has a variety of features that make it quite useful:

• Customizable: Every aspect of the user interface is customizable, from the note colors and fonts to the icon in the system tray. You can customize every note on your desktop or change notes individually. You can even make your sticky notes semi-transparent!
• Easy To Use: Your notes and settings are saved automatically, so your sticky notes will remain on your desktop if you restart your computer or restart the program.
• Convenient: Press Ctrl-Shift-N at any time to create a sticky note right under your mouse cursor. You can make sticky notes behave like normal windows, or you can make them remain "floating" above all of the windows on your desktop so they are always visible.
• Intuitive: You can move notes by clicking and dragging anywhere on the note rather than clicking on the top of the window. You can double-click on the note to edit it.
• Standards Compliant: Stickies conforms to Windows XP/Vista standards. This means that Stickies uses the proper file and registry locations to save settings, so it should work for any number of users in most any modern Windows environment.
• Multi-Computer Synchronizable: Stickies now supports multi-computer synchronization so you can have the same Stickies on all of your computers. Try it out, and send me feedback!

Source Code

I have also released the source code for Stickies under the Apache 2.0 open source license, which effectively releases the source code with "no strings attached." See the provided development information for details. Stickies was developed with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 in C#.

Donate!

If you wish to contribute to the development of Stickies with dollars rather than source code, you can make a secure donation with PayPal. I appreciate your support!

Contact the Author

If you encounter any problems, please email me (Bret Taylor) at btaylor@gmail.com. I receive a lot of email, so I cannot guarantee a response, but I will do the best I can.