I have to use Windows at work for various reasons and over the years I’ve found a bunch of cool little apps that make using that atrocious operating system slightly more palatable. If you use a Mac, you’ll recognize the name Stickies. As Erica Sadun put it on O’Reilly in a story about using that Mac program: “Stickies is quite the cool application. It lets you put notes on your screen and float them over your workspace. You can use Stickies to add reminders about appointments, phone calls, or just to store frequently used text.” 3M makes Post-It notes (those little yellow sticky pads you use in the office), and at some point decided to offer a digital version. I used it for years, but it wasn’t free and I always found it much clunkier than the OS X version. Today I discovered that Zhorn Software out of the UK offers a freeware Stickies for Windows that is on par with the program of the same name on the Mac. In fact, it offers a bunch of features not found in my OS X 10.3.9 version of that program (like peer to peer networking shared stickies and recurring alarms). If you need an easy and elegant way to take quick notes, make a quick to do list, or set an alarm on your Windows PC, check it out.