Sticky notes for Windows - Notezilla

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 20, 2013 at 03:47 PM

I have used Notezilla off and on over the years. During the time I’m familiar with it the developer has added new features and enhanced functioning. Making a broadside statement about what one would or wouldn’t pay for it based on a product trial from the past is not fair.

My own use of Notezilla is for very quick note-taking, for keeping information at top of mind, or for assisting me when I’m working in another program.

The other day, for example, I was a guest on a Twitter chat (#ABIChat) which focuses on acquired (traumatic) brain injury. My topic was ABI and PTSD. Prior to the chat I had one note pinned next to my Twitter client with some factual points I knew I’d probably use, and which I wanted to ensure were accurate. Dropping this information into the chat was a simple copy/paste.

I had one other note pinned alongside the first one listing information related to a couple of books. As it turned out I only used information from one book. If I hadn’t been glued to the television watching the antics of the Ford brothers in Toronto I probably would have pre-written two or three tweets on a third pinned note for use at the beginning of the chat.

Notezilla is a non-obtrusive, easy to use, note taker and holder of information. It doesn’t replace my use of EverNote, MyInfo, or WhizFolders. It fills a specific niche more easily and rapidly than any of the other programs I use.

At the earliest stage of writing I use Notezilla because it’s very simple, non-distracting, and fast. Using it this way enables me to work through writer’s block.

The use of memoboards, each one devoted to a particular topic, can help to consolidate information related to a current project or issue, cleanly and efficiently. Again, this is quite helpful if you want to isolate a subset of information in a way which offers an efficient customize view of it.

Sometimes I make a memoboard layout of facts & figures I want to remember, returning to this particular information repeatedly so that I commit it to memory.

I bought the new version when if was recently offered on Bits, and consider it excellenet value.

Daly