The sticky Notes application in Windows 10 lets you generate sticky notes on your laptop as if you were sticking a post-it on your desktop. The looks of these notes are strictly that of a Post-it that you open and on which you write to write down what you require at any time. Although you have applications open to keep the notes onscreen, and these are simple and without too many options. It is a fast and very light alternative to more complete and complex programs like OneNote.
What Sticky Notes are and are not?
- Sticky Notes is one of the spontaneous apps developed by Microsoft for Windows 10, and it generally comes pre-installed in the working system.
- Its mission is to offer the possibility of creating small notes that remain on the desktop always visible and quickly and easily.
- It is an actual application, and it does not have editing options for what you write.
- For example, you can neither change the font size nor the font type, so it looks more like a notepad than other applications.
- It is like always having several pages of the notebook spread out on the desktop in specific positions that you will see whenever you go to the desktop.
- Being so simple, they do not have the possibilities of other apps like OneNote.
- Since you cannot create notes with complex formats or significant texts, nor can you synchronize them between several devices.
- It’s just like putting post-its stuck to the computer screen; only in this case, they stay on the desktop.
- If you need something more advanced, then you will have to go to another application.
- The most significant advantage of such a basic application is that its loading time is minuscule.
- And also, you don’t have to navigate through menus.
- Everything is immediate; you open Sticky Notes and start writing the notes with the reminders.
How to use Sticky Notes?
- Firstly, you have to do is launch the application.
- To do this, open the start menu and type Sticky Notes to bring up the application.
- Then you have to click on it to start using it.
- Do not expect an extensive application full of menus since the first post-it will appear.
- As you may sometimes not remember the specific name of the app, you can also write terms as notes to search for it.
- By default, Windows 10 can show you the notepad as a suggested app, but among the other suggestions in the start menu, Sticky Notes will also appear.
- Once you start them, you can start writing what you want in them.
- You will immediately see what we have told you before, that these notes do not have text format or different sizes for the letters.
- The only customization you can make is to manipulate the size of the post-its with the mouse, stretching or shrinking from the edges of each one.
- Once you write what you want, you can press the + button in the upper left corner to add another note that can appear right next to it.
Other Method
- You can also press Control + N to create fresh and new notes without clicking anywhere.
- When you create a new post-it, it will be a clone of which you have clicked to create a new one.
- If you have several post-its of sizes and colors when you press the + of one of them.
- A new one will appear with the same size and color, so be careful to clone precisely the one you want.
- When you select them, you will see three icons appear on the top bar.
- Firstly, you can create a new post-it with the shape of the asset; we have explained it to you.
- But on the right side of the bar, you will see two more icons.
- One of them is to delete the note, which has a trash can icon.
- With this option, you can erase each post-it one by one to keep them organized only with the topics of interest.