StickyNotes for Windows - Beta 9.3

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Any feedback?

Don't like the changelog showing up on all new notes.

Should have it so if the Title Bar RGB is white, or very close to, the font color changes to black. Otherwise you can't see the title, or any of the options

I set two notes to notify me, neither one did.. unless I am missing something?

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Don't like the changelog showing up on all new notes.

Should have it so if the Title Bar RGB is white, or very close to, the font color changes to black. Otherwise you can't see the title, or any of the options

I set two notes to notify me, neither one did.. unless I am missing something?

Have you made sure the Windows notification is enabled for StickyNotes?

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I opened the notify me, and set a time, then hit set... I wasn't aware I had to do more..

Sometimes the balloon tip hides itself - so you'd have to manually enable it again.

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I'm working on a better solution for the final.

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I don't like the panel hiding - it's a window title after all.

However, the "Save" button won't be missed :)

You should consider redoing this using WPF. A lot of your code would suddenly become a thousand time simpler to write and with less lines of code (e.g. allowing users to edit the sticky note title without having to use a textbox and a label)

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I don't like the panel hiding - it's a window title after all.

However, the "Save" button won't be missed :)

You should consider redoing this using WPF. A lot of your code would suddenly become a thousand time simpler to write and with less lines of code (e.g. allowing users to edit the sticky note title without having to use a textbox and a label)

You really like WPF don't you?

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Hi Jan, I just started using this application as my primary note taking app on Windows 7 instead of the default Windows 7 gadget, just due to font rendering. Also, cos on a computer I don't want a real note in terms of look and feel. I have some feedback I would like to give you.

1, For the title of note, try using WPF controls. This way you won't need the save button to be pressed to save the new title. A simple enter key on the keyboard after writing the title will save it.

2. Make it also work like a task list. I am adding a rough mockup of what I mean.

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3. Add some padding to the text area, similar to what you have given in the title area. Right now the text starts very close to the border. That is not how someone writes on a note paper in real life.

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4. The color of title bar text is always white. That is not very readable on yellow background for example. So, change these colors depending on background because you are giving some predefined color styles anyway, so better to also give pre-defined text color here.

Take cues from this application available on Android which gives an experience close to real world note taking and fits to the reason as why people take notes of things .

http://www.mobisleapps.com/blog/mobislenotes/

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Hi Jan, I just started using this application as my primary note taking app on Windows 7 instead of the default Windows 7 gadget, just due to font rendering. Also, cos on a computer I don't want a real note in terms of look and feel. I have some feedback I would like to give you.

1, For the title of note, try using WPF controls. This way you won't need the save button to be pressed to save the new title. A simple enter key on the keyboard after writing the title will save it.

2. Make it also work like a task list. I am adding a rough mockup of what I mean.

post-66080-0-75862700-1301216154.jpg

3. Add some padding to the text area, similar to what you have given in the title area. Right now the text starts very close to the border. That is not how someone writes on a note paper in real life.

post-66080-0-65156600-1301216057.jpg

4. The color of title bar text is always white. That is not very readable on yellow background for example. So, change these colors depending on background because you are giving some predefined color styles anyway, so better to also give pre-defined text color here.

Take cues from this application available on Android which gives an experience close to real world note taking and fits to the reason as why people take notes of things .

http://www.mobisleapps.com/blog/mobislenotes/

1. You can press the enterkey t save already, the save button is gone in the next beta. See the concept a few posts above.

2. I've wanted to do something like that, I may add something like that in a later version.

3. I'm going to add some padding - it'll probably be in te next beta.

4. I'll look into that.

Thanks for the visual feedback.

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gxsaurav

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If you want to fix long nested menus, then why not give a settings panel which moves like the old iPod UI used to work, sideways scrolling. I looked into your menu hierarchy, it can be reduced a lot. Will give u the feedback by tomorrow.

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StickyNotes Beta 4 Download: Download

New and improved:

Improved interface

Performance improvements

The status bar now tells you how many characters are left in the title.

And a few other little improvements...

Not the most feature/fix filled Beta ever, but it's just a little update for you guys.

Known issues:

Text colour doesn't work yet.

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options is screwed up, it's like.. scrolling in a small area.. it's wierd.

The notifications still are not working at all for me. I set a title, set a description, setup all that. It is still not notifying anything.

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