Stickies

Stickies is a Macintosh notetaking application for putting Post-it note-like windows on the screen with short reminders, notes and other clippings. Typed contents are automatically stored, and restored when the application is restarted. The first version of Stickies was written by Apple employee Jens Alfke and included in System 7.5. Alfke originally developed it in his free time as Antler Notes and intended to release it as shareware doing busin... more

Stickies is a Macintosh notetaking application for putting Post-it note-like windows on the screen with short reminders, notes and other clippings. Typed contents are automatically stored, and restored when the application is restarted. The first version of Stickies was written by Apple employee Jens Alfke and included in System 7.5. Alfke originally developed it in his free time as Antler Notes and intended to release it as shareware doing business as Antler Software; Apple planned to acquire it from him, but discovered that they already legally owned it under the terms of his employment. During the transition to Mac OS X, it was rewritten in Cocoa, and is still included in Mac OS X, now with features such as transparent notes, styled text and the ability to embed pictures in notes. In Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar," Stickies is able to adopt a 3D view. Complementary to the Stickies application a feature reduced version of Stickies is one of the widgets included with Dashboard since Mac OS... less