Sticky Notes creates virtual Post-it notes that you can stick anywhere on your screen—a triumphant software answer to the thousands of people who stick notes on the edges of their actual monitors.
You can type quick notes and to-do items, paste in Web addresses or phone numbers you need to remember, or store any other little scraps and snippets of text you come across (Figure 11-10).
To create a new note, click the 
button in the upper-left corner of the
starter note, or press Ctrl+N. Then fill the note by typing or
pasting.
Note the resize handle on the lower-right corner of each note. Drag it to make notes larger or smaller onscreen.
You can format the text of a note—a little bit. There are no menus, of course, so you have to use keyboard shortcuts:
You can also change the “paper” color for a note to any of five other pastel colors. To do that, right-click the note and then choose from the shortcut menu.
To get rid of a note, click the little 
in the upper-right corner. (You may have to
point to it to see it.) When the program asks if you’re sure, click
Yes.
On the other hand, you can exit Sticky Notes without worrying that you’ll lose what you’ve already typed. Right-click the Sticky Notes icon on the taskbar, for example, and choose “Close window” from the shortcut menu. The program disappears, but all your notes will be there the next time you open it.