StickyNote
                       Version 4.50


	StickyNote is a simple sticky note program for
Windows 95, 98 and NT.  It can be used to create colored
notes for storage on your desktop.

	The setup program for StickyNote will install it
in your StartUp Start Menu folder.  Each time you start
Windows, the StickyNote icon will appear in the system
tray.  Double-clicking this icon will create a new sticky
with the default font, font color and window color
attributes.  You can change these default values by
selecting the desired options on the icon's context menu,
which will appear when you right-click the StickyNote
icon.

	You can temporarily hide sticky notes, and display
them later using the Show command from the system tray
context menu.  Hidden stickies are still maintained by the
program, and closed if you execute the ‘Close stickies’
command.  To hide a sticky, choose the ‘Hide’ command from
the sticky’s context menu.

	You can close StickyNote by choosing the Exit item
from its system tray context menu.  When you exit
StickyNote, your settings will be saved and the next time
you start the program, they will remain as they were set
previously.  If you exit Windows and StickyNote is still
running, your settings will be similarly saved.

	Each note has a caption bar, which is drawn
slightly darker than the text window.  You can click and
drag it to move a sticky around.  It also has a context
menu which appears when you right-click it; using this
menu you can change the color of the sticky, the font and
the font color.  Changes you make using this menu only
affect the current sticky.

	Notes can be alarmed such that a sound plays at
a given time.  Alarmed windows will pop up to the top of
the windows stack, and will be colored differently to
draw your attention.  Notes can also be given expiration
dates and times.

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Author's note:

	I decided I wanted a sticky-note-like program for
Windows, and I certainly found a number of very impressive
ones on the Web, but all were either commercial or
shareware.  I didn't feel like spending money, so I wrote
my own.  Consequently, I certainly won't charge money for
this program as the spirit under which it was created
dictates that one of its main features should be its free
availability.

	I always wonder about programs of this sort.  What
motivation (other than sinister) could an author have for
distributing a program without reimbursement for his time
and effort?  Some street mechanism in me tends to
reinforce the adage, "you get what you pay for."  But
this program defies that, in a very GNU-esque manner.  The
Internet should be a system by which you can obtain
information which will benefit you and increase the
productivity of your computing experience.  When
commerce and money get tied up, the Internet turns into a
carrot-and-stick mechanism, where you have to wait minutes
downloading a program, invest hard-drive space in it,
spend time playing with it only to be rudely jerked from
functionality after 21 days.  This works against that
system.  I'm sure there are better notes programs around
for certain things- in fact, I've seen a couple.  I'm sure
there are some very intricate codes for doing many things
beyond what I offer in this little incarnation.  But I
offer something which none of the rest offers: freedom,
the GNU ideal.  Thus, it can be said that, perhaps, my
program's main feature is its free nature, and further my
honest intention in creating it as such was simply to make
it better than previous programs through its freedom, to
make it different.  This program will run forever, without
asking for money or displaying dialog boxes of the
annoying genre, and will not affect your system in any
malicious way.  You are basically assured of this anyway;
you probably copied it from some large site which tests it
forwards and backwards before making it available to you.
But for that last little inkling of guilt for getting
something free, I say forget it.  Hug your kids if it
makes you feel better, and that will be the repayment to
the good of humanity, far beyond what you offer anyone
through money.

	Thank you for trying my little program.  I hope it
works well for you and gives you some enjoyment.  Happy
computing and good health.

-Christian Carrillo
 ccarrill@fas.harvard.edu

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General information

Title:         StickyNote
Version:       4.50
Purpose:       Simple free sticky notes program
Installation:  See below
Status:        Freeware
Limitations:   None, use and distribute freely
Author:        Christian Carrillo