7 Sticky Notes - a powerful, smart and yet also free desktop notes software that lets you easily and quickly create and store virtual Sticky Notes right on your desktop.

7 Sticky Notes comes with an impressively good-looking realistic sticky note appearance for the ultimate user experience.

7 Sticky Notes is a 100% free desktop notes software that creates Sticky Notes directly on the Desktop of your computer to help you organizing your tasks and to-do lists. With its realistic good-looking sticky note appearance and amazing user interaction, 7 Sticky Notes offers cool and fun usage that is at the same time powerful, simple to use, reliable, and light!

Main features:

--- Powerful Tasks & To-Do List Organizer

- Separate your notes by groups or categories with Multiple Desktops for ultimate organization
- Sleep: Send notes to sleep with full wake up time customization
- Alarm: Setup one-time-only or recurring alarms for each note using a complete set of time configuration options
- Great wake up and alarm effects
- Plus: Configurable "trigger alarm when wake up" + alarm sounds + wakeup sounds!!

--- Cool Looking Desktop Notes

- Fully customizable notes color themes including Yellow, Green, Pink, White, Purple, Blue and Red
- Fully personalization of texts, fonts, colors and styles
- Drop Shadows for stand-out realistic sticky note effects
- Slightly graded background for beautiful and elegant notes
- Picture and images attachments

--- Amazing User Interaction

- Automatic URL recognition for fast notes of web links
- Drag, move and resize drop notes with one click
- Order your notes: Bring to front, Send to Back
- Easy-to-use On Screen Desktop Switcher
- Roll Notes up/Roll Notes down with your mouse

--- Beautiful Visual Effects

- Smooth Fade in and Fade out effects
- Clean look: Hidden buttons showed only when mouse over and elegant note pads
- Transparency effects
- Exclusive Notes Desktop for highlighting the notes on top of your other desktop windows and icons

--- Light, Reliable and Fully Customizable

- Notes Manager for complete and easy management of all your notes, with additional statistics feature
- Incredible personalization possibilities + multi-language
- Automatic editing backup to prevent data loss
- Small foot print: only 8MB disk space required and only average 15MB of RAM memory used
- Database storage for great reliability and performance
- Full Backup, restore and synchronization



Release Notes for 1.6:

• Added features:
- New File Attachment capability!! The long waited feature comes with beatifully integrated attachment of files on the notes with "link mode" and "attach mode", an exclusive "attach pad" with preview icons for all attached files and folders, as well as full drag and drop usage, either for dragging-in or draggin-out! For sure one of the most awesome single features so far :)
- Added option to export one or multiple notes to a zip file, with all and the attachments compressed (selectable option to export only linked files, only embedded files, or all files), as long as feature to import zipped files for allow easy moving of the notes files around and between computers :)
- Added full support for drag and drop capabilities, which includes dropping of plain text, formatted rich text, images (png, bmp, tiff, gif, jpg, jpeg, etc), text files, rich text files, and file images!
- Added Italian Translation!! Special credits to Redi and Luca for the great effort and help in translating
- New ultra-stylish redesigned program icons! Including new icons for 7 Sticky Notes (high resolution 256 px for Windows 7 and Windows Vista), tray icon, taskbar button, option window and Notes Manager!
- Now tray icon and taskbar icon changes color to easy identify if the notes are shown or hidden! Yellow, shown, blue, hidden, easy!
- Added automatic note sizing to fit text option when saving (size to fit content)
- Added new right click menu entries for the notes: "Auto size note to fix text", "roll up/roll" (to allow using the feature without the mouse wheel), "Delete Note", and "Move To Desktop".
- Added icons at the notes' right click menu items for easy identification
- Added program option to "hide notes when desktop is clicked"
- Changed alarm/wakeup function to only change the desktop for the necessary one if a note wakes up or alarms. If different notes wakes up/alarms at the same time from different desktops, the "All Desktop" will be showed as usual
- Added quick and cool tray pop up balloon to suggest and offer a shortcut to create a new note when no notes are available on the 7 Sticky Notes great thanks for Stacie Jo for the feedback!
- Included some missing keys options at the shortcut options (such as 'left alt' and 'right alt'), allowing now a complete keyboard shortcut customization - Thanks to Daniel for the heads up!
- Added program option to enable or disable the hide/show notes behaviour when tray icon is clicked - thanks again Daniel!
- Now is allowed to run 7 Sticky Notes Portable and 7 Sticky Notes Normal side-by-side at the same time on the same computer - great suggestion by Christopher!
- Added CTRL + T shortcut key for strike-through text effect - many thanks to Tore for the great suggestion
- Added 'CTRL + W' keyboard shortcut to cancel the edition of a note - special thanks for Gary for the great help and suggestion!
- New Arrange Notes Feature! Now is possible to arrange the notes on the screen, with full customization options such as ordering as ascending/descending, by title, by note order, by creation date, and on the left/top/right/bottom part of the screen, as well as options to arrange the notes rolled up and sort only the notes from the current monitor, or from all monitors, for multi-monitors setups!! Special thanks for Rob for the suggestion!
- Middle mouse click on tray now forces all notes on top
• Other Improvements/Fixes:
- Great Improvements for the Notes Manager: (many thanks to Rob for all the suggestions and help!)
▪ New right click menu options to "Show Desktop", "Rename Desktop", "Delete Desktop", and "Show Desktop" (moved from from program options)
▪ Added "column click reorder" for the notes showed at the right list pane
▪ Added drag-and-droping of Desktops to change their order
▪ New right click menu option to define the Desktop as "Default Initialization Desktop" and to "Remove it from Desktop Switcher", with identification images "-" and "1" at the Desktop image of the tree to easily show the options used
▪ Now the Notes Manager shows at the Desktops icons which one is selected at the program (small green circle flag)
▪ Now the left tree shows the title of the notes, and the right pane list shows the title in the first columns, and the text at the second column
▪ Now the Notes Manager opens up with the current showed desktop selected
▪ Basically moved all Desktops management from the program options to the Notes Manager
▪ Added "Center Note" menu and toolbar button to bring the selected notes to the center of the current monitor
- Added program option to enable the "all notes to be bring to front" behavior when a note is focused. Now this behavior is disabled by default. great thanks for Daniel for pointing that out!
- Added right click menu at the themes section of the program options to allow creating, renaming and removing of notes color themes, besides the functions buttons
- Once and for all, fixed system slow down when using the WIN + X keyboard shortcut - great thanks for Steve and Robert for pointing that out!
- Full Review of the Active Synchronization routines, with special checkings to avoid unnecessarily bringing notes to the front when program is out of focus, optimization of focus return for currently editing notes, modification of the sync method (now the notes is hidden, then shown back again), and added a "Sync Executed" message by blinking the tray icon to orange, to show that the program has just performed an automatic syncronization! - great thanks to Daniel for all the help!
- Added extra error checkings for note configuration screen, and for the loading of the themes configurations - Many thanks for Mike Daniel for helping!
- Moved several program notifications from "Message Boxes" to "Balloon tooltips" on the tray icon, that is now showed if not visible, and then automatically dismissed, for a smoother usage, and removed some unecessary program messages - also many thanks to Tore for the suggestion!
- Aligned menus shortcuts, included "secondary menu shortcuts", and changed the Notes Desktop to a "toggle behavior" - also great thanks to Tore :)
- Now non-editing notes don't have the caret (cursor) visible (long wanted fix)
- Now scroll up/scroll down will work even if title is not selected (just mouse hover now to activate)
- Added right click note menu also for the title
- Fixed bug of not being able to move the text around the note by dragging and dropping
- Fixed program behavior of incorrectly showing window when using the Windows 7 task button and disabled minimize animation of the taskbar button - Many thanks to Steve for the triple monitor testings!!
- Improved error logging to include the most current system information values
- Fixed allowed vertical sizing of rolled up notes
- Fixed small glitch of roll down not redrawing correctly right at the beginning
- Fixed minor glitch of incorrect sizing for the Statistics Desktop drop down list with only one Desktop present
- Fixed a few issues of not executing CTRL + A, edit, etc on the note title
- Fixed minor note focus issues when using in-note shortcuts for editing, saving, and cancel editing
- Changed "Not found backup folder" message at the program options - now is created automatically (special thanks for Rob)
- Improved error logging by adding the list of open windows
- Changed default install folder for the Portable version from C:\ to the Desktop to follow Windows 7 guidelines of usage
• Bug Fixes:
- Added unicode support for the title of the notes Once again thank you Unsal!
- Fixed search error of "unable to search Statistics" of the Notes Manager on systems that are configured to the "dd.mm.yyyy" data format, for example used in Turkish languages - Many thanks for Unsal for letting me know!
- Fixed incorrect Notes Desktop positioning when using multiple monitors in different (non-aligned) desktops positions (thank you for everyone who emailed me)
- Fixed not correctly closing when using the option "Use Window 7 'close' button to switch hide/show all notes"
- Fixed not able to resize the note when mouse over the thin note border
- Fixed out of screen check when using multiple monitors
- Corrected problem of not updating the language file automatically when installing a new version
- Fixed incorrect showing of the notes when user clicked on the Desktop after the notes where displayed by the "Windows Show Desktop Disable" option (many thanks once again for Willy!)
- Not saving empty shortcut keys at the options corrected
- Corrected Notes Manager sizing accordingly to the window title
- Corrected and implemented several checks to avoid "invalid modal form display" errors



Release Notes for 1.5:

• Answering requests, now 7 Sticky Notes offers FULL TRANSLATION OPTIONS!
- Specially designed smart, fast-performance translating algorithm (zero slow downs!)
- Uses a user-customizable open translation script and tools to allow
anyone to collaborate and create its own translations
- New language translation page at the options window to allow
importing, management and switching of 7 Sticky Notes languages
- Full translation of the install package, with "Language" selection install option
- All texts, messages, labels, pop ups, menus, and tooltips were reviewed,
spelling errors have been corrected and all texts were improved.
• Complete rebuild of the Notes Manager:
- Complete redesign - now cooler and easier to use
- Added upper menus for quick access to all functions
- Added icons toolbar for easy access of all functions
- Added Export, Import, Duplicate, Move, Show, Recycle,
Remove Permanently, Restore and Wake Up actions
- Added details view mode (creation date, removal date, etc) at the Notes List
- Included Sleeping Notes at the Desktops with special "sleeping icon"
- Improved drag-and-drop functionality
- Added statistics for tasking control and review, with graph-generation
of notes "Life Time" and total notes per selectable period
• Glad to announce new "FULL NOTE THEME CUSTOMIZATION"! Now you will be
able to fully customize the themes of your notes to make it look exactly like you want!
The new full themes customizations includes:
- Selectable color (full color scale) for title background, upper gradient color,
lower gradient color, border color, and controls colors
- Redesigned, improved, and cleaner note controls buttons (add
new note, and delete note controls)
- New black and white controls allowing creation of dark,
yet elegant colored notes :) (very cool - special thanks to Maria!)
- Modified colors for the 7 default themes - now more colorful and vivid
- Easily add your own new themes
- Remove existing themes if you want
- Re-order current themes
- Name/Rename themes
- Complete redesign of routines to dynamically adjust images to the themes
to assure best viewing on alarm/wakeup messages
- Added themes names and increased list width for themes drop down list at the configuration window
• Additionally, new visual effects options added at the configurations:
- New "Themes" section to manage note colors themes
- Easy theme colors selection by "instantly applied" color picker on a test note
- Option to enable/disable showing thin border on the notes
- Added "Shuffle Theme" for random color theme for new notes - thanks for Pasi for the idea!
- Added option to auto-select the new note title and body color (black or white) to ensure best contrast
- New customizable drop shadow size
- New customizable drop shadow strength (transparency)
• New "Roll note to title" effect! With a simply and quick
mouse wheel scroll the note rolls up to the title, saving instantly and
precious screen space! - kudos to Redi for the great suggestion!
• Desktop Switcher improvements:
- New speed customization option
- New timeout customization option
- Shortcut button to auto-center the desktop switcher at the options screen - Added strike font style to desktop switcher
- Now you can customize in which direction the Desktop Switcher
will animate (vertical or horizontal), and for what distance
- Added automatic quick start note creation to new databases
- Added option to remove "all desktops view" from Desktop Switcher
- Added NEW ACTIVE SWITCHING option to Desktop Switcher
- Changed Desktop Switcher behavior so it will show the current desktop on the
list even if is not selected to be included at the cycle list
- Added option to enable/disable the auto select of the Desktop Switcher
- And finally, now the desktop switcher can CYCLE BACK using
a customizable key! - suggested by Robert :)
• Unicode text support: (Thanks a lot for George for the testings and help!)
- Added suport for unicode note text - Including tested Georgian, Thai, Armenian, and Arabic
- Included auto-detected "paste as Unicode" shortcut key (CTRL + SHIFT + V)
• Setup Package Improvements:
- Reduced installation size (~100kb) and embedded internal dll avoiding
registration issues on non-privileged systems - thanks for Andre for the testings!
- Improved "7 Sticky Notes already open" detection, with special
screen for display and option to force closing it - thanks for Pat for the help!
- Updated 7 Sticky Notes logos
• Keyboard shortcuts:
- Made a small improvement on the shortcut keys detection performance
- Added third keyboard shortcut key option for every shortcuts. For example,
now you can use CTRL + ALT + N for a new note! - suggested by Robert :)
- Added CTRL + SHIFT + V shortcut key for "pasting unformatted" (plain text) on the note
• New database compacting capability:
- Allows to reduce the database size if it gets unnecessarily big
- User-definable option to automatically compact the
database every time it gets over an specified size
• New automatic database backup option - Thanks Christopher for the suggestion!
- Completely configurable Auto backup frequency (On Startup,
before exit, daily, weekly, monthly, and by period - hours, days, weeks or months)
- Definable database backups folder
- User defined max number of database backups to keep
• Improved Previous Instance action: Now, when the user tries to launch 7 Sticky Notes
and it is already running, instead of showing the "already open" message,
7 Sticky Notes will automatically show the notes of the currently open instance,
adding a much more user-friendly behavior (great idea from Reinaldo, thanks!)
• Changed default shortcut key combinations to use the WIN key instead of ALT key
in order to not conflict with Alt shortcuts of other programs. Now the default shortcuts are
WIN + Z, WIN + X, WIN + C, WIN + V, WIN + SHIFT + V (thanks for Peter for the heads up!)
• Addded "ENTER" keyboard shortcut (1) at the font families list,
(2) at the font size list, and (3) at the indentation scrolls of the
configuration window to allow returning the focus to the note
• Other Improvements:
- Greatly improved compatibility during execution for non-privileged users,
by using COM Server registration for the current user scope only
instead of system-wide registration - many thanks for Andre for the spectacular help!!
- Added "Middle Mouse Click" to edit the note - now besides double clicking the note
in order to edit it, you can now do it also by "middle-clicking" it, which is a lot faster!
Added note right click menu with shortcuts to note duplication and exporting
- Included CTRL + A shortcut at the note for "Select All" text
- Added support for multi "redo" and "undo" at the note text (CTRL + Z and CTRL + Y)
- Redesign/Rearrange of Sync Options section
- Added "Always On Top" default note configuration at Options Screen
- Increased the step of the transparency bar of the configuration window (easier to scroll)
- Added 2x default sounds with 7 Sticky Notes, one for the alarm, and other for the wakeup
- All 7 Sticky Notes logos are now updated

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