If you all can take out the issues you had with Windows Vista out of your mind for a minute and think hard, you’ll remember it had a very useful sidebar gadget called Notes. It let you quickly scribble down ideas, phone numbers and all sorts of texts and looked just like real sticky notes. It also had a few options for different fonts, font sizes, and stick note color.
Windows 7 comes with a new sticky notes application to replace the notes gadget but it sits in your taskbar when running hence taking up valuable space. For multiple notes, it starts new instances of sticky notes unlike the gadget which gave previous and next options for multiple notes.
Windows 7 Sticky Notes
Windows Vista Notes Gadget
I really liked the Notes gadget in Vista, so I extracted the folder and repacked it as a .gadget file so that it can be installed in Windows 7. I find it better to use than the Sticky Notes app in Windows 7.
You can download it below. Just run it and install. It’ll pop up in your desktop gadgets in Windows 7.
How do i get it to work, i downloaded it and its a zipped file. so how do i put it on gadgets to make the gadget work. i tried running it, but it just opens the file
please i need help, i really do want this.
Im using windows 7 btwww.
thanksssssssss.. wooowwww.. just what i’m looking for :D
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
I like this one much better than the one that comes with Windows 7. A person doesn’t have to have multiple sticky notes on the desktop making it cluttered, as if a person had tons of sticky notes on a desk, wall, board etc, making it hard to find each note. Instead I can click on the back and back and forward arrows. When wanting to add another simply click the plus button and add onto it and when I don’t need the reminder anymore I click the X button to clear it off.
I had no trouble getting this to work on my Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
quick and easy, thank you.
Dude, sweet! Thanks so much
Hi, there doesn’t seem to be an executable to run among the downloaded files. Hope it is not my issue, really prefer the smaller notes from vista. Thank you. John
Files downloaded in folder : Notes.zip downloads 162kb, folder contains 5 items, en-US folder, images folder, drag.png, icon.png and logo.png
rename “Notes.zip” to “Notes.gadget”, double-click and windows 7 gadget manager will ask to install… simple as that.
I did just that, but after clicking yes on the question if i want to install, nothing happends. And if i open the gadget menu there is no gadget. weird?
yup! same happend to me!! any help? i installed it and nothing happened!!
Did you add it to your desktop through gadgets?
I got the same problem, what to do with the files? There is no install file in the zip.
Fantastic ! I had been waiting for this for two years.Thanks very much !
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!
hi, thanks for this wonderful gadget :D been using it for some time before i had to reformat my computer…and coming to that…may i know where the text was stored so i might recover it from my backup? >< thanks!
Wonderful man. But I wish it had more options like changing the size of the note (sticky paper) or changing the font to something we can add.
Notes work only in en-EN OS
i have use 7zip, open the archiv, copy the folder en-EN to my Desktop, rename is to de-DE
and put the folder in the Notes.gadget. Now it works on German OS.
Thanks, it worked for me.
download link isn’t working..
isn’t working with mozilla but with opera works
Thanks so much!
I was looking for that for a long time, since the “Black and Dark Notes” suddenly
stopped working on my desktop.
Take care!
PS. For those who are having problem downloading, do it that way:
– Right click on the link
– Save link as (or save target as for firefox)
– Rename to Notes.gadget
This is how it worked for me.
owesome!! thanks a lot for sharing this.
Thank You
Thanks buddy!!! The gadget rocks!!
Great gadget!
thank you