7 Sticky Notes 1.5

7 Sticky Notes 1.5 will prove to be a beneficial as well as reliable desktop notes software which aims to make a professional-looking desktop notes software with as realistic notes graphics as possible. Putting it in another words, the goal was to make a very well finished program, simply because if it is good and is well designed, you would completely enjoy using it and would feel incentivated to continue using it, eventually getting rid of all the paper notes once and for all.

Major Features:

1. Powerful Tasks & To-Do List Organizer
   • Separate your notes by groups or categories with Multiple Desktops for ultimate organization
   • Sleep: Send notes to sleep with full wake up time customization
   • Alarm: Setup one-time-only or recurring alarms for each note using a complete set of time configuration options
   • Great wake up and alarm effects
   • Plus: Configurable "trigger alarm when wake up" + alarm sounds + wakeup sounds!!
2. Cool Looking Desktop Notes
   • Fully customizable notes color themes including Yellow, Green, Pink, White, Purple, Blue and Red
   • Fully personalization of texts, fonts, colors and styles
   • Drop Shadows for stand-out realistic sticky note effects
   • Slightly graded background for beautiful and elegant notes
   • Picture and images attachments
3. Amazing User Interaction
   • Automatic URL recognition for fast notes of web links
   • Drag, move and resize drop notes with one click
   • Order your notes: Bring to front, Send to Back
   • Easy-to-use On Screen Desktop Switcher
   • Roll Notes up/Roll Notes down with your mouse
4. Beautiful Visual Effects
   • Smooth Fade in and Fade out effects
   • Clean look: Hidden buttons showed only when mouse over and elegant note pads
   • Transparency effects
   • Exclusive Notes Desktop for highlighting the notes on top of your other desktop windows and icons
5. Light, Reliable and Fully Customizable
   • Notes Manager for complete and easy management of all your notes, with additional statistics feature
   • Incredible personalization possibilities + multi-language
   • Automatic editing backup to prevent data loss
   • Small foot print: only 8MB disk space required and only average 15MB of RAM memory used
   • Database storage for great reliability and performance
   • Full Backup, restore and synchronization

• Answering requests, now 7 Sticky Notes offers FULL TRANSLATION OPTIONS!
• • Specially designed smart, fast-performance translating algorithm (zero slow downs!)
  • Uses a user-customizable open translation script and tools to allow anyone to collaborate and create its own translations
  • New language translation page at the options window to allow importing, management and switching of 7 Sticky Notes languages
  • Full translation of the install package, with "Language" selection install option
  • All texts, messages, labels, pop ups, menus, and tooltips were reviewed, spelling errors have been corrected and all texts were improved.
• Complete rebuild of the Notes Manager:
• • Complete redesign now cooler and easier to use
  • Added upper menus for quick access to all functions
  • Added icons toolbar for easy access of all functions
  • Added Export, Import, Duplicate, Move, Show, Recycle, Remove Permanently, Restore and Wake Up actions
  • Added details view mode (creation date, removal date, etc) at the Notes List
  • Included Sleeping Notes at the Desktops with special "sleeping icon"
  • Improved drag-and-drop functionality
  • Added statistics for tasking control and review, with graph-generation of notes "Life Time" and total notes per selectable period
• Glad to announce new "FULL NOTE THEME CUSTOMIZATION"! Now you will be able to fully customize the themes of your notes to make it look exactly like you want! The new full themes customizations includes:
• • Selectable color (full color scale) for title background, upper gradient color, lower gradient color, border color, and controls colors
  • Redesigned, improved, and cleaner note controls buttons (add new note, and delete note controls)
  • New black and white controls allowing creation of dark, yet elegant colored notes
  • Modified colors for the 7 default themes now more colorful and vivid
  • Easily add your own new themes
  • Remove existing themes if you want
  • Re-order current themes
  • Name/Rename themes
  • Complete redesign of routines to dynamically adjust images to the themes to assure best viewing on alarm/wakeup messages
  • Added themes names and increased list width for themes drop down list at the configuration window
• Additionally, new visual effects options added at the configurations:
• • New "Themes" section to manage note colors themes
  • Easy theme colors selection by "instantly applied" color picker on a test note
  • Option to enable/disable showing thin border on the notes
  • Added "Shuffle Theme" for random color theme for new notes thanks for Pasi for the idea!
  • Added option to auto-select the new note title and body color (black or white) to ensure best contrast
  • New customizable drop shadow size
  • New customizable drop shadow strength (transparency)
• New "Roll note to title" effect! With a simply and quick mouse wheel scroll the note rolls up to the title, saving instantly and precious screen space! kudos to Redi for the great suggestion!
• Desktop Switcher improvements:
• • New speed customization option
  • New timeout customization option
  • Shortcut button to auto-center the desktop switcher at the options screen
  • Added strike font style to desktop switcher
  • Now you can customize in which direction the Desktop Switcher will animate (vertical or horizontal), and for what distance
  • Added automatic quick start note creation to new databases
  • Added option to remove "all desktops view" from Desktop Switcher
  • Added NEW ACTIVE SWITCHING option to Desktop Switcher
  • Changed Desktop Switcher behavior so it will show the current desktop on the list even if is not selected to be included at the cycle list
  • Added option to enable/disable the auto select of the Desktop Switcher
  • And finally, now the desktop switcher can CYCLE BACK using a customizable key! suggested by Robert :)
• Unicode text support:
• • Added suport for unicode note text Including tested Georgian, Thai, Armenian, and Arabic
  • Included auto-detected "paste as Unicode" shortcut key (CTRL + SHIFT + V)
• Setup Package Improvements:
• • Reduced installation size (~100kb) and embedded internal dll avoiding registration issues on non-privileged systems thanks for Andre for the testings!
  • Improved "7 Sticky Notes already open" detection, with special screen for display and option to force closing it thanks for Pat for the help!
  • Updated 7 Sticky Notes logos
• Keyboard shortcuts:
• • Made a small improvement on the shortcut keys detection performance
  • Added third keyboard shortcut key option for every shortcuts. For example, now you can use CTRL + ALT + N for a new note! suggested by Robert :)
  • Added CTRL + SHIFT + V shortcut key for "pasting unformatted" (plain text) on the note
• New database compacting capability:
• • Allows to reduce the database size if it gets unnecessarily big
  • User-definable option to automatically compact the database every time it gets over an specified size
• New automatic database backup option
• • Completely configurable Auto backup frequency (On Startup, before exit, daily, weekly, monthly, and by period hours, days, weeks or months)
  • Definable database backups folder
  • User defined max number of database backups to keep
• Improved Previous Instance action: Now, when the user tries to launch 7 Sticky Notes and it is already running, instead of showing the "already open" message, 7 Sticky Notes will automatically show the notes of the currently open instance, adding a much more user-friendly behavior (great idea from Reinaldo, thanks!)
• Changed default shortcut key combinations to use the >WIN key instead of ALT key in order to not conflict with Alt shortcuts of other programs. Now the default shortcuts are WIN + Z, WIN + X, WIN + C, WIN + V, WIN + SHIFT + V (thanks for Peter for the heads up!)
• Addded "ENTER" keyboard shortcut (1) at the font families list, (2) at the font size list, and (3) at the indentation scrolls of the configuration window to allow returning the focus to the note
• Other Improvements:
• • Greatly improved compatibility during execution for non-privileged users, by using COM Server registration for the current user scope only instead of system-wide registration many thanks for Andre for the spectacular help!!
  • Added "Middle Mouse Click" to edit the note now besides double clicking the notein order to edit it, you can now do it also by "middle-clicking" it, which is a lot faster!
  • Added note right click menu with shortcuts to note duplication and exporting
  • Included CTRL + A shortcut at the note for "Select All" text
  • Added support for multi "redo" and "undo" at the note text (CTRL + Z and CTRL + Y)
  • Redesign/Rearrange of Sync Options section
  • Added "Always On Top" default note configuration at Options Screen
  • Increased the step of the transparency bar of the configuration window (easier to scroll)
  • Added 2x default sounds with 7 Sticky Notes, one for the alarm, and other for the wakeup
  • All 7 Sticky Notes logos are now updated
• Other fixes:
• • Greatly improved load time for the "Note Configuration Window" and for the "Options window"
  • Removed the "automatic selection on mouse hover" behavior for the Option Window's navigation menu
  • Corrected small issue that could occur if changes on the note were being made while the program exited
  • Slightly improved note load time
  • Corrected unnecessary synchronization execution during note startup
  • Implemented check for desktop finished switching or not using the menu.
  • Fixed flickering of title buttons when mouse was over the title of the note (specially noticeable in Windows 7)
  • Corrected a few spelling errors
  • Fixed wrong duplicated sound path message at the options screen
  • Fixed default title format used when reset was clicked on the options screen
  • Fixed all "tab orders" at option screen
  • Fixed indent controls not being disabled upon note load if title was visible
  • Fixed not showing Grab Pad on new notes
  • Fixed bell alarm icon overlapping alarm label when user clicked cancel on a alarm-configured note
  • Fixed new note not showing up if the notes were hidden
  • Fixed small glitch of focus not returning to note when "UP" and "DOWN" font size buttons where being press at the configuration window
  • Corrected alarm bell positioning after creating a new note
  • Fixed controls orders on the configuration window for correct "alt-tabbing"
  • New improved drop shadows position redrawing for detecting screen change situations (when switching other full screen apps) Thanks to Pasi!
  • Implemented more accurate drop shadows positioning when moving and resizing notes
  • Allowed running 7 Sticky Notes without sound, in case no sound library is present at the user's system (thanks Andre for testings)
  • Fixed changes not being detected for some controls at the options window
• Bug Fixes:
• • Fixed incorrect transparency display for the Desktop Switcher when screen color quality (bit depth) was set to 16 bits
  • Fixed problem when launching the vb run-time package under Portable mode
  • Fixed problem of the vb run-time package not being copied to the installation directory under portable mode
  • Fixed new note editing title not being saved if the desktop was switched,the notes were hidden or if the program closed.
  • Fixed "Cancel was selected" error in Options window, detected under Linux execution
  • Configuration Windows now showed correctly with Notes Desktop If the used changed desktop really fast, the notes could overlap each other
  • Fixed invalid property error when trying to change the title font color
  • Corrected Setup Package not updating old version files (dll/ocx), causing the program not to start many thanks for Sanz for finding that out!
  • Fixed "Object Required" error when naming a very short sound name (under 2 letters)
  • Fixed locked notes when not using fade effects
  • Fixed incorrect removal of editing when using the buttons delete/recycle note of the configuration window and canceled the confirmatio

• Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 32bit/64bit