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Stick 'Em Up: An enhanced replacement for Apple's Stickies
For anyone looking to get just a little bit more out of the Stickies app that Apple includes on every Mac, Stick Em Up by Jim McGowan might just be the app for you. Since he also writes Do It, the powerful todo list manager that we're a fan of, McGowan seems to have an eye for improving other apps and tasks that some of us perform on a daily basis. Basically speaking, Stick Em Up is a replacement for Apple's Stickies that offers one significant enhancement: categories. Notes can be grouped into whatever categories you'd like, which are all navigable by the keyboard and can all be effortlessly displayed and hidden. This allows all sorts of useful workflows to include Stick Em Up instead of having to look to another heftier note storage app like Yojimbo, or keeping multiple apps open just to get through the day. Users can create a category of Web Clippings stickies in which you can toss temporary URLs and images, but then hide that category at the end of the day and save room for all the other sticky notes you need to work with for another task. It's a subtle but liberating feature for a simple tool that offers a surprising amount of flexibility.
As with Do It and all his other software, Jim McGowan offers Stick Em Up as donationware from his site.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kip Davis said 11:48AM on 6-09-2007
because every os x icon should have a gun in it.
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Keenkreations said 1:03PM on 6-09-2007
Plus there is Sidenote...friggin sweet program. I remember using Stickies for a long while, then I realized that it was slowing down my startup time when I got into desktop. Stupid NON-Universal Binary!
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Mark 2000 said 1:13PM on 6-09-2007
I would never use this. The gun is unnecessary.
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sageimac said 2:04PM on 6-09-2007
Make the stickies more of a 3D image, with the corners curling up as if an actual sticky was on the monitor, then you'd have a neat idea.
Yes, the gun is a little over-"kill" and unnecessary.
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JaY said 3:40PM on 6-09-2007
I hate the gun. I would never use this because of it
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towb said 6:02PM on 6-09-2007
Yes, the gun should go. And there's no transparency. And there's no way to disable spell checking for new notes. So how is this better than Stickies?
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pangelav said 9:04PM on 6-09-2007
If they changed the gun icon I'd use it, otherwise no way.
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JeffDM said 10:19PM on 6-09-2007
... Is this because the *image* of a gun in the icon is so threatening? Icons can be changed. It might take a couple minutes.
This thing does have categories over the built-in stickies. I don't use Stickies though, I don't see my self using it because I really don't need the program.
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Stephen Lang said 2:00AM on 6-10-2007
Stickies is now Universal (according to Cmd-I).
But yeah, categories is nice (and so is SideNote)
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Ian Beck said 7:29PM on 6-10-2007
Personally, I've been very happy with Sticky Notes:
http://www.randomsequence.com/software/sticky-notes/
Sticky Notes has some very nice features, and best of all: no gun! :-)
That said, I have not tried Stick 'Em Up, so I can't really compare the two.
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