“Stickies” – Digital Post-Its™

One of my latest obsessions is an application for Macs called “Stickies.” Ever used a Post-It™ note? Welcome to digital Post-Its. Stickies is a really simple but cool application that allows you to put little notes on your desktop — well, they’re not really on your desktop, but as long as you have the Stickies application open, they show up as if they are. You can type whatever you want in them and then change the text to look however you want — font, size, even color. As if that isn’t nifty enough, you can also change the color of the note itself, as well as the size of the sticky, so you can have some vertical, some horizontal, whatever. Then you can move the sticky around your desktop and put it wherever you want it. Here’s a screenshot of what my Stickies look like on my desktop (my apologies if you’re not a Hannah fan):

Even though it’s pretty simple, the Stickies application really doesn’t “get old” any faster than using Post-It notes does — which means, while your immediate-obsession may go away, you’ll probably keep using Stickies until Apple comes up with something newer, bigger, better. Until then…Stickies rule!

-Andrea