Post-it on my wall!
As I head for my desk looking forward to writing another article on pleasantlifestyle.com, I’ve noticed something on my monitor. A piece of yellow paper with the text ‘Mr. X called at 905-xxx-xxxx’ hangs off of the center of my screen. Apparently when I was focusing on the Stocks market and how much the U.S. housing slump is costing me, I missed a call and the person who took the call in my place recorded a message using post-it notes and sticked it on my monitor so I won’t miss it.
Post-it, Notes invented by Arthur Fry and is currently owned and manufactured by 3M is heavily used for such occasions. First marketed back in 1977, Post-it Notes has become something that almost every human have at least wrote one or received one. I personally use the writable notes for message relays and the non-writable ones as book marks.
Obviously for anyone to fill a wall paper with post-It Notes, it’d be pretty stupid. However, the wall I am talking about here isn’t your physical wall, but your virtual wall. If you are reading this article, unless its been some how printed onto a piece of paper, you are using a computer. And any computer user know what a wall paper is to a computer, if you don’t, it is the background of your main desktop.
For Microsoft Windows users, 3M created a Virtual Post-It program, click here to download it from download.com. This program give you a re-sizable virtual Post-It Note, with alarm attached. You can set it up so that it sounds an alarm on a particular day. Or simply use it to store some temporary information.
At one point, this software allowed multiple color Notes, and emailing of Notes. These meant that if I like, I can change the color of some of my post-it notes to any color manufactured by 3M. The emailing of Post-It notes function similar to physically posting a note on someone else’s computer, except this one is electronically transfered over. However, the latest revision have these functions disabled unless you paid for a registration number.
On download.com, there is also a screen shot, click here to see it.
There are also other free software, such as Sticky-Notes.net, but to me, it doesn’t seem as attractive cosmetic wise as 3M’s