StickyNote Review

I thought it was supposed to STICK to the desktop...

Submitted by balance on Sun, 2007-07-15 10:43.
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The lowest price: 17.95$
You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
Pros:
It looks nice, it offers a good amount of customization
Cons:
they don't stick to the desktop - they get hidden
Review:

StickyNotes... they're supposed to be sticky... as in to STICK to your desktop. Well, let me say that they don't. StickyNote gets hidden every time I press the Show Desktop icon. Alright, I do admit that there's a workaround to that - you have to press the Windows logo key and the 'M' button simultaneously instead of the 'Show Desktop' icon to maintain your stickies on the desktop so they don't get hidden. But the downside to it is that it's uncomfortable to do over and over again.

The Sticky Notes do look pretty, but the fact that when you create a new sticky, it gets tilted to the left or right makes it uncomfortable again.

At least there's a fair amount of customizability in that you can select the font, color, size of the text. I DO like this feature of StickyNote.

And you get an alarm included in the price of the StickyNote software.

However, I strongly believe that StickyNote is not worth its price tag. If you can do with less customizability, but desire more reliability - use freeware, use Avedesk and its desklets - these do the job, and aren't too ugly looking either.

Conclusion:

What would have been a good StickyNote utility became an uncomfortable mess of stickies that constantly get hidden... STICK with freeware on this one (or a better utility).