Post-it® notes have become a panacea to office organization. Besides bulldog clips and pens with flowing ink, post-its are highly coveted by anyone with a desk, monitor, and a surplus of quick ideas, to do lists, and hard to remember snippets.
Eventually, these little pieces of paper become a big mountain in the trash heap. Fortunately, there are electronic replacements that are free and can actually improve your company’s communications.
Stickies, a free program, allows you to create virtual sticky notes on your computer’s desktop. They can sit there like a silent reminder to do something or combined with Outlook or your PDA, they can be set with an alarm to remind you of tasks, and much more.
Other Virtual Options
- Yahoo! Widgets are desktop applications that range from the silly to the super helpful. The PostIt Widget offers the same functionality as Stickies with more integration into your Yahoo! contacts, messenger, and mail.
- Backpack, by 37 Signals, is an online collaborative tool that lets you create lists, share documents, and work together in teams. It’s flexibility makes it a useful tool for groups or individuals. Backpack is free for basic usage and premium memberships offer extended features.
- 37 signals also provides other online collaborative products: Campfire (Real-time group chat), Highrise (Track leads, clients, vendors, simple CRM), Ta-Da (to-do lists)and Basecamp (Project management and collaboration). All of these offer free, basic levels and more advanced features for a small subscription fee.
- Tech Crunch has an analysis of the best virtual Post-it® replacement sites: Do More: Online To Do Lists Compared. Remember the Milk, one of the featured services, has become popular with mobile phone users.