StickyNote Review

StickyNote tries to help us out by letting us post reminders, alarms, ideas, and such. The idea is a relatively good one, but we already have things for that on our computers. Those of us that don’t can find cheap (and more often free) alternatives elsewhere. As a program itself, StickyNote works. You can write on them, set attachments, hide them, and set them to open with folders. All the things that the program is supposed to do works just as it is supposed to. The problem is that the features of StickyNote seem like they should be freeware, definitely not 20 dollar applications. Everything StickyNote does would be great if it were free.

When you install StickyNote, you can tell it to simply create a new note. From there, you can change the color, texture (this seemed like it didn’t work, however), font, font size, and even if it’s “3D” or not. If you write a note that is too big for a single note to handle, it will add one below it, or if you choose the nonstandard “2D” option, obtain a scroll bar. If you want to see a note every time you open a specific folder, you can right click a note and select “stick to window”. Now when you open that folder, a note will pop up with it and disappear when you’re done. If you have forgotten about a note or just want to see where you still have some, StickyNote comes with a manager that allows you to place notes in different categories. These features make the application useful, but it is still unjustified by the cost.

The program doesn’t come without any drawbacks, however. The notes all are the same screen obscuring size and the 3D sticky notes don’t look that good. The 2D notes are probably the best option, and they are too plain looking to be any better than the 3D ones. I wish I could give it a higher rating, but the price is very unjustified.