7 Sticky Notes is a good 100% free desktop notes software that creates Sticky Notes directly on your Desktop. It has a really good-looking realistic sticky note appearance for ultimate user experience and it offers amazing and cool features that makes 7 Sticky Notes at the same time powerful, simple to use, reliable, and light!
Cool Looking Desktop Notes:
- Choose between 7 pre-defined note colors: Yellow, Green, Pink, White, Purple, Blue and Red
- Use personalized fonts sizes, colors and types
- Drop Shadow on every notes for realistic effect
- Sutil gradient background that brings notes to life
Amazing Usage Functionality:
- Drag and drop notes around
- Resize them as much as you want
- Organize notes by order: Bring to front, Send to Back
- Logical operations for natural instant usage
Beautiful Interaction Effects:
- Fade in and Fade out effects
- Hidden buttons only show after "Mouse Over" events
- Transparency effects when moving notes
- "Notes Desktop" feature highlight the notes on top of your other desktop windows and icons
Light and Reliable:
- If it wasnt for the tray icon, you wouldnt notice is opened
- Small foot print: requires only 8MB on disk space and only 13MB of RAM memory
- Database-based storage for good performance and roughness
- Backup and restore important notes
- Recyble Bin Feature: Review, restore or clean your deleted notes
What's New in version 1.2:
Added Features:
- URL's and internet addresses now automatically identifyed as hyperlinks (opens site in default browser when link is clicked)
- Improved fade in/out performance (speed)
- Automatic Updates - Informs user when new version is available
- Now all user files are installed and located in Windows's User folders (including start menu and application data folder). This ensures 7 Sticky Notes is installed only for the curent user, and ensures user-files are located only in application data folder, following the correct user data storage guidelines, as is required by Windows 7.
- Implemented automatic instant font change for advanced font configuration windows
- New personalization options added to program's options:
- User-configurable keyboard shortcut keys combinations for "New Notes", "Show/Hide Keys" and "Notes Desktop"
- Enable/Disable Auto URL Recognition
- Enable/Disable auto update check on startup
- Enable/Disable "Start 7 Sticky Notes when Window Starts"
- Enable/Disable drop shadow effects
- Enable/Disable Transparency Effects
- Moving notes transparency enable/disable and configurable transparency percentage
- Fade-in Notes Effects Enable/Disable and fade-in time (ms)
- Fade-out Notes Effects Enable/Disable and fade-out time (ms)
- Default new note transparency
- Default new note show/hide title
- Default new note theme
Bugs Fixed:
- Improved animating notes detection to prevent "show/hide" operations while notes are fading
- Fixed bug with not redrawing dropshadows if Windows was configured to not "show windows contents while moving" (thanks to Willy R. from Indonesia!)
- Fixed problem with wrong note identification when re-creating the configuration windows in the case one of the under configuration notes was a new note
- Fixed "not saving text alignment" bug
- Fixed error when double-clicking an empty Recycle Bin's notes tree
- Fixed dropshadows not redrawing when screen resolution changed
- Removed small mouse flickering when resizing note