StickIt Help

INTRODUCTION

StickIt is a utility for creating "sticky notes" on your desktop. You can create up to 20 notes of different sizes, colors and text. Each note can have it's own alarm that you set for a specific date and time, or a countdown style alarm. We highly recommend placing a shortcut to StickIt in your "startup" folder so that your notes are automatically shown every time you start your machine.

StickIt starts in your task tray so that it is as unobtrusive as possible.

TRAY MENU

Right-click the StickIt icon to access the popup menu.

New Note Select this menu option to create a new, blank note on your desktop. You must create at least one note to access the Alarm/Appearance menu item. Once you have created a note you can type text in it, changes the appearance, and add an alarm.

A new, blank sticky note.

Alarm/Appear… Select to set the Preferences and Alarm settings for the current note. The current note is the note that was most recently activated by creating or clicking it. See below for details on the Alarm/Appearance windows.

Auto Save Select to automatically save your settings when exiting StickIt.

Save Now Select to save your settings immediately.

Remove All When selected, all notes will be permanently removed. You cannot ‘undo’ this!

Help F1 Display the online help. Click this button or hit the F1 key.

About Click this button to open a window with information about StickIt, including a link to our web site.

Exit Exit StickIt.

APPEARANCE TAB

Color Selection Click on a color square to set a color for the current note. The selected color will be highlighted.

Note back color When selected, color selections will affect the background color of the current note.

Note text color When selected, color selections will affect the text color of the current note.

Alarm back color When selected, color selections will affect the background color of the current note when an alarm runs. Note that the background is only the border of your note.

Alarm text color When selected, color selections will affect the text color of the current note when an alarm runs.

Always keep… When selected, the current note will stay on top of other windows. You can select this for each note if you like.

Set Font Click this button to choose the Font for the current note including size, color and style.

Help F1 Display the online help.

About Click this button to open a window with information about StickIt, including a link to our web site.

OK Click this button to exit the Appearance window and keep your changes.

ALARM TAB

Click the ‘Enable’ button to begin setting an alarm.

Countdown Select this option to set a countdown-based alarm for the current note. This will create a timer within the note that will countdown the amount of time specified. Use the hour and minute selectors to set the length of the countdown. The countdown begins as soon as you click the ‘OK’ button.

Date/Time Select this option to set a date/time-based alarm for the current note. This will create a timer within the note that will set off the alarm when the specified Date and Time are reached. Use the hour, minute, and AM/PM selectors to set the time for the alarm. Use the Calendar to select the date for the alarm. The alarm is set as soon as you click the ‘OK’ button.

Calendar Click on a date for the Date/Time alarm. Use the left/right arrows at the top of the calendar to aching the month and year if necessary.

Bring note… Select this option to bring the note forward (on top of other windows) when the alarm goes off.

Center note If ‘Bring note forward’ is selected, you can select this option to have the note centered on your screen when the alarm goes off.

Use alarm colors If ‘Bring note forward’ is selected, you can select this option to have the colors change when the alarm goes off. The colors are based on your selections from the Appearance tab (Alarm back color, Alarm text color)

Flash window… When selected, the title bar of the note will flash until you click the note to stop it.

Play a sound Select this option to play a sound when the alarm goes off. If you do not choose your own sound using the ‘Browse’ button, then the default sound will be used.

Loop until clicked When selected, the alarm sound will play until you click the note to stop it.

Browse Click this button to navigate your machine and find a sound to use as an alarm. You can only “.wav” sounds. If your selected sound is not available at alarm time, the default sound will be played.

Test Click this button to test the selected sound.

Def Click this button to revert to the default StickIt sound.

Enable Click this button to enable setting an alarm for the current note. After making changes, leave the ‘Enable’ button pressed, then click ‘OK’. If you click the ‘Enable’ button so that it is not pressed prior to clicking ‘OK’, the changes will be saved, but the alarm will NOT be turned on.

Cancel Click this button to discard your changes and close the Appearance/Alarm window.

OK Click this button to exit the Alarm window and keep your changes.

WEB SITE

If you have questions that cannot be answered in this help file, would like to make a bug report or enhancement request, please visit our web site.

You can get to our website by clicking this link: www.FreewareOnly.net