iNote

Since most information can be found over the web, there’s a high chance you rely on the information superhighway to get your facts straight and perform research. This can mean you must have a notepad at hand to save ideas, but not something too complicated, and this is where the likes of iNote comes in handy.

First of all, you’re taken through a setup process in order to make the application work. You can choose to have it launched right afterwards to see what is all about. As the name clearly states, the core function is to provide an alternative to the Windows Sticky Note tool, and does so in a similar manner.

One note shows up on the desktop on launch, with a colored interface just to make it look cool. Text formatting is plain, and there are no customization options, while pasting strings in the note removes all formatting. Websites, however, are highlighted, and you can even have them launched in your default web browser at the press of a button.

The interface is devoid of functions, except the one to close the note, and to select all text to have it ready for copying. A scrollbar appears if text strings are larger than the note, since the window can’t be resized. Unfortunately, you can’t change the note color, or save it to file.

As mentioned, there aren’t really any options to work with here. On the other hand, you can have multiple notes active at a time, but only the text stored in the last closed note is saved, and brought back when launching the program again. A neat trick is to assign a hotkey command to the program’s shortcut to have it launched regardless of explorer location.

Bottom line is that you don’t need a complex text editing application to store bits of important info, especially when performing research or saving note. As such, iNote wants to be your alternative to Sticky Note, but it comes pretty underprepared to properly handle the task.