What is on my Christmas list?

Something I deperately needed to keep up with all that I have going on ... an electronic stick-it note to-do-list system that runs right on my desktop. I am on my computer all day for one thing or another. I had been sticking paper Post-It notes all around my screen. It looked messy and I would lose the notes or forget something that needed to have finished by a particular time. Notezilla replaced all that and has been terrific to help me keep up with everything. I love it!

Here is a screenshot of my desktop:

You can see a full-sized view at http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2264/2125863280_e889f5687c_o.jpg

The corkboard and the pinned headers are my own creation which I made and set as the desktop image.

The blue and orange rectangles are the Notezilla electronic stick-it notes. You can make them any color you want to. In this picture, I have most of them in the rolled-up position except for the one on the lower left. That one is open so you can see the detail-view of the note. Notice that I have that one set up as a checklist. Notezilla lets me toggle those boxes as checked or unchecked. That particular one is my daily housework checklist. I just check it as I do them during the day. Then, I uncheck them before shutting down my computer to have them ready for the next day.

Other uses I have for the checklist freature is keeping a running grocery list throughout the week. I keep the products I buy every week on there all the time. The things I need to add to it for that week are easy to add to it when I realize I need something. On grocery day, I just click the option to print the note. It prints my list complete with the checkboxes.

Another neat feature is that you can set an alarm for each stick-it note. It opens an alert window and has a cute cuckoo sound when the alarm sounds. You can also set a custom wav audio file if you want to. You get this alarm no matter what program you are running, so you do not have to worry about missing the alarm. You can tell it to remind you anything from when it is due to two weeks early. It has a snooze feature too, so if you cannot attend to the task immediately it will re-cuckoo in whatever time increment you tell it to. It also has a repeating alarm feature that lets you set it to go off on any particular weekday you pick at that time. Set it once and forget it.

Oh yeah, you can also attach files to the note. I have used this for grading the kids' papers. The kids in my online classes send their homework and tests to be by e-mail. Once I save them to a folder on my hard drive, I can attach a clickable link to the note to the folder that they are in. When I am ready, I can just click access the papers from the desktop note. I can attach files too. Times I have used that is when I am working on a Paintshop Pro project. I can attach the file of the project to the note. Then when I am ready to work on the project I just click the papaerclip icon on my Notezilla stick -it note for that project and the file opens up in Paintshop Pro automatically.

There are a few features I have not tried yet. One is that you can send notes to other computers to add to their Notezilla. A multi-computer family might find that useful to keep everyone's to-do lists synchronized. The other feature is that you can set up the notes to open when you open specific programs. You click 'stick note to window' while the program you want to have it open with is open. Then every time you open that program, the Notezilla note will open. This would be a good way to remind someone to do certain chores before they access the internet for free time. LOL. That note would open with their to-do list when they launch their browser.

I guess you can tell that I love my early Christmas present. LOL