Stickies versions

Display sticky notes on your desktop with text or images
Apr 25, 2023
Review
Sep 12, 2016
Editorial review
rating
Mar 28, 2012
Review
Jul 5, 2014
Editorial review
rating
Dec 13, 2010
Review
Dec 14, 2010
Review
7.0
Oct 16, 2009
Oct 16, 2009
6.7
Aug 30, 2008
Aug 25, 2008
6.5
Mar 3, 2008
Editorial review
rating
Jul 25, 2008
6.0
Feb 17, 2008
Review
Aug 3, 2008
5.2
Mar 7, 2008
Review
Jul 26, 2008
5.1
Review
Jul 25, 2008
Sep 3, 2010

What's new

v10.0
Changes:
- Number of stack menu items with an icon raised from 32 to 64.
Fixes:
- Tiny one-pixel title bar error in high DPI skins fixed.
- Stickies no longer locks up at start, after having created a new data file.

v9.0.5 [Sep 12, 2016]
- Pressing shift-delete in a text sticky cuts the current line of text.
- Over-verbose OnManage log file entry removed.
- Converting to an image sticky with a non-default layout current in the skin, now sets correct edge widths.
- Setting a data directory which doesn't exist now throws an error and closes Stickies, rather than crashing.
- Opening the Manage dialog with the Home tab selected, clicking Stored, clicking a note, no longer show Home in the background.
- Crash fixed when sending an image sticky using MAPI email.
- Crash fixed when booking out friends for editing from a Stickies Server.
- Possibility of overwriting text content when a Desktop sticky loses focus, when same note was selected in Manage preview, now fixed.
- Notes with auto-width enabled, which are rolled up at launch, with an alternate position now save and load details correctly.
- Supported skin version set correctly, so that "This skin might not work correctly" messages no longer appear.

v8.0.3 [Mar 28, 2012]
Features
- Images can be inserted into text stickies
- Stacks for desktop stickies
- Friendly name hyperlinks
- Periodic automatic full backups
- Properties dialog added for all stickies in all categories
- Screen grab directly to an image sticky
- Skin browser dialog
- Stored sticky category icons
- Image undo levels can be configured
- Restore from backup
- 'Solo' a sticky to work with just that one
- Option to offset screen position of new stickies to prevent overlap
- New image editing operations: rotate, greyscale, invert, flip, mirror, border, blur, jitter, flood fill, border
- Configurable tab stops
- Feature to move data file location
- Save image stickies as JPG
- Show recurring parent
- Default note content files for text and image notes
Changes
- Stickies is now fully Unicode, supporting all languages throughout
- Stored stickies retain many more attributes, like create time, position, read only, source
- Added data storage format, RTF split into separate files, settings, options and friends into their own files
- 'Rescue offscreen' command now also fixes the Manage dialog
- Manage dialog has been optimised, and so is less 'flickery'
- Hotkey functionality built into the exe file, the DLL is no longer required
- Text desktop note contents can be edited in the Manage dialog
- Hold shift while attaching a sticky to attach it relative to the position of the window
- Option to disable RTL shortcut keys
- All tray icons can now be changed
- Choose a place to create a new store category when storing a sticky
- 'Set all' checkbox on the Recurring dialog
- -rescue command line parameter added
- Defaul text highlight colours made a little less harsh, users can now change them
- Title items on menus are now bold, not grey
- All numeric values in Options have spin controls
- At startup, the stickies.exe path is checked for data files as well as the CWD
- Maximum size of stickies raised to 614,400
- Image sticky pen now shrinks to single pixel width
- All icons changed to include an alpha-channel
- Shift-context menu key opens the content menu, not the sticky menu
- Removed: recover dialog
- Removed: Palm and PPC support
- Removed: -registry, -recover, -norecover command line parameters
- Removed: import/export store categories in Manage
Fixes
- User values (user1/2/3) are now correctly initialised for new notes
- Bug when moving a note from Stores to Closed to Desktop fixed
- Sending from a Stored category to the Desktop no longer decrements the count by two
- After choosing the pen colour, the original input focus is restored
- Paste buttons on skins can now convert a RTF note to an image note
- New notes set to appear in the center of the screen now do so correctly
- WM_QUERYENDSESSION messages handled
- Fixed English text "Snooze alarm for X minutes" fixed
- .sti file loading no longer affected by setting an incoming network style
- On-top setting is no longer lost by using the menu to set another note not-on-top

v7.1.5.1 [Dec 13, 2010]
v7.1a - 13th December 2010
New features
* Text can be dragged/dropped between stickies, and other applications which support text drag/drop
* Stickies can be set to have a fixed bottom, so they autosize and roll/unroll upwards
* Skins can now draw on the background of text stickies
* If an icon named "stickies.ico" is found in the application directory it will be used for the tray icon instead of the default
* Text formatting copy and apply button, and keyboard shortcuts (alt-f and alt-v)
* New API command: do netsend <id> address 1.2.3.4
* New API command: do saveini
* New tool to draw arrows in image stickies (press 'a' to select it)

v7.1 [Dec 14, 2010]
New features
- API: added "get snap" command
- API: "do new encoded" (supersedes "do new sleeping encoded")
- Pen cursor in an image sticky updates with colour and size
- NoRTLKeys=1 ini file setting to disable the control+shift RTL toggle keypress
Changes
- Doesn't quit if it can't create the tray icon
- Stickies woken permanently have the original ID
- Sped up window attach check rate to ten times a second
- Sticky titles altered from "ASticky" to "ASticky: 243978539047"
- "On top" and "not on top" notes are added to bulk action lists separately
- Now logs why/how stickies was exited
- Attached stickies with alarms set will now show for for their alarm when their window is not present
- Now remembers the last backup directory used
- No longer restores last selected category in Manage, therefore fixing a "not waking" bug under Windows 7
Fixes
- No longer always saves data file as app shuts down
- Fixed problem with sizing Google list columns in Options
- Font MRU list now actually works, rather than just filling up once and stopping
- Fixed bug with pen colour skin elements not always updating
- 'Periodic sync' controls are now disabled on the Networking tab when networking is disabled
- Can't now choose New Sticky/Category from the File menu in the Manage dialog when recurring is selected
- Buttons on a skin which disappear when the note loses focus now also take their tooltip with them
- Setting 'ghost' off when it was already off ended up putting it on
- API problem with waking recurring stickies with "prevent duplicate" enabled resolved
- Sharing violation on Stickies load error message path fixed
- No longer changes a sticky modified date when getting a friends list or updating the sender
- Only visible notes are added to bulk move/action list
- Bug with rolling up not refreshing tooltip locations fixed
- Bug with tooltips for elements dependant on "image" not updating as one becomes an image fixed
- Bug with elements dependant on focus not redrawing correctly fixed
- No longer responds to any API commands until app is completely ready for them

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