Use Sticky Notes

Quick reference

• 00:04 Sticky Notes are another small but useful application in Windows 11 that
• 00:08 allow us to create virtual post-it notes to store important information.
• 00:13 Now, one caveat to this is the Sticky Notes app is effectively like sticking
• 00:18 a post-it note on your screen.
• 00:21 So we would definitely recommend that you don't store anything that's too
• 00:24 sensitive on these sticky notes,
• 00:25 so that anybody who's walking past behind you can see the information.
• 00:29 So don't use Sticky Notes to store things like passwords, or
• 00:32 maybe the security number for the office door.
• 00:35 But for some pieces of information, things you need to remember,
• 00:38 they can be really useful.
• 00:40 And it is a very simple and straightforward application, so
• 00:43 let's take a quick look.
• 00:45 Once again,
• 00:45 we're going to press the Windows logo key to pop up that Start Menu.
• 00:50 We're going to go to All apps, and I'm just going to search for Sticky Notes,
• 00:55 and there it is at the top of the list.
• 00:58 Let's click once to launch the application.
• 01:00 And once again, if this is the first time you're using it,
• 01:03 you're going to be required to log in.
• 01:05 Now, we get this kind of Sticky Notes list just here, as well as a new note.
• 01:10 And notice I can drag this sticky note and
• 01:12 place it wherever I want to place it on the screen.
• 01:15 So this looks like a virtual post-it note.
• 01:18 We can resize it by dragging the corner to make it bigger or even make it smaller.
• 01:22 And we can have multiple notes on our screen.
• 01:25 So, maybe I want to remember a customer order number that I was recently given.
• 01:30 So, I'm going to type in customer order number, and let's just say it's that.
• 01:35 Once I'm happy with the sticky note, I can do a few things with it.
• 01:39 Now notice when I create this sticky note, it adds it to my sticky notes list.
• 01:44 So all of the notes that you create you'll see in this list, and
• 01:47 you can then use the search bar at the top to search for specific notes.
• 01:51 So if I click in search and type in Amazon,
• 01:53 it's going to find any sticky notes that have the word Amazon in them.
• 01:58 Click on the cross to clear that search.
• 02:01 If I want to close down my note,
• 02:03 I can simply click the cross in the top corner of the note.
• 02:06 And it's telling me that closed notes are available at any time in the list view.
• 02:11 So okay, I've got that.
• 02:13 If I want to reopen that note, I can simply double click on it again.
• 02:19 And I can also double-click on any of these other notes that I have in my list.
• 02:23 Now, a couple of other things that you can do with sticky notes, notice just below,
• 02:27 we actually have a formatting ribbon.
• 02:29 Now, this is a very basic formatting ribbon.
• 02:31 But it does allow us to add a little bit of structure to our sticky notes.
• 02:34 I can make things bold.
• 02:36 I can make things italic and underlined.
• 02:39 I can even put a strike through across if I want to.
• 02:41 And if I want to create bulleted lists,
• 02:44 I can do that as well simply by clicking the correct icon.
• 02:48 So let's just add in some random text.
• 02:52 I can even add in an image.
• 02:54 So if I click the Add Image button, it's going to open up the last folder I used,
• 02:59 and let's just choose one of these images of Turkey to add to the sticky note.
• 03:04 So these can be quite nice for storing important snippets of information.
• 03:09 Now another thing we can do, if we click the three dots up here,
• 03:12 is we can change the color of our sticky note.
• 03:15 So I'm going to make this one pink just to differentiate it from the other notes in
• 03:19 my list.
• 03:20 I can also pull up my notes list from here, and I can delete the note as well.
• 03:24 So I can really have this sticky notes list as a little floating window,
• 03:29 and I can place that down the side of my screen if I want to use these regularly.
• 03:33 So I can drag it down to make it a bit longer,
• 03:35 and I have full access to all of the notes that I've created.
• 03:39 We do have some settings for sticky notes as well, so notice at the top we
• 03:43 have a little cog icon, so that's going to jump us into our Sticky Note settings.
• 03:47 Now, we don't have a great deal of settings we can customize in here, but
• 03:51 we can, for example, make sure that we have this toggled on.
• 03:55 So we're going to get a confirmation before we delete the notes.
• 03:58 So it gives us just that second to really think about if we do want to delete
• 04:02 this or not.
• 04:03 We can change the color from light to dark.
• 04:05 So, remember as I said, all of the Windows native applications are completely
• 04:10 customizable, and you can choose light or dark for each of them.
• 04:14 So if I change this to dark, I get a completely different look and feel.
• 04:18 So let's go back to our notes list and
• 04:20 you can see that dark setting has been applied.
• 04:23 The only other button that we have in Sticky Notes is the plus in
• 04:27 the top corner, and this will enable us to create a brand new note.
• 04:30 So it really is as simple as that.
• 04:33 I can even carry on clicking on that plus to create multiple notes at the same time
• 04:37 and maybe work across all of them.
• 04:39 And if I don't want them,
• 04:41 I can simply click the cross in the top corner to get rid of those notes.
• 04:45 But that's it, that is Sticky Notes,
• 04:48 use them whenever you want to store snippets of important information.

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