Why put sticky notes all over a monitor?

[Alturas]

http://www.aipl.com/Sticky.jpg
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Does anyone know what Notepad, or better yet, Metapad, is for? You
don't need to load a slow-opening word processor to type basic numbers
and addresses.

Just make a generic ASCII text file, put a shortcut in the Start menu
(another underused Windows feature*) and pop it open whenever you need
it. With a text file you can also search for strings instead of
hunting through faded Post-its. Backup the file often, of course.

This assumes sticky notes reside on your monitor because your computer
is ON when you use them. I know Post-its won't crash like a hard-drive
but I can't see another reason for using them as permanent plaques.

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*Why do people put dozens of shortcuts on their Desktop, forcing them
to minimize running apps each time they run a shortcut? The shortcut
names get truncated on the Desktop too, so you can't always tell them
apart. Just put them in the Start menu and load them "on top" of your
running programs! That's the whole point of the Start Menu, is it not?

 

[David Candy]

Attached is a Desktop Item that add a note pad (a yellow one) into the desktop. There are no controls, anything typed is saved. You must edit note.html in notepad and change the path for the data file twice. Then put database.txt whereever you edited note.html to say where you were gonna put it., Then Start - Control Panel - Display - Desktop - Customise Desktop - Web - New ... and browse to Note.html.

 

[Galen]

In David Candy <.> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Attached is a Desktop Item that add a note pad (a yellow one) into
the desktop. There are no controls, anything typed is saved. You must
edit note.html in notepad and change the path for the data file
twice. Then put database.txt whereever you edited note.html to say
where you were gonna put it., Then Start - Control Panel - Display -
Desktop - Customise Desktop - Web - New ... and browse to Note.html.

I couldn't help myself. I downloaded and gave it a shot. Before hacking away
at it (my VBScript skills are limited to learning from someone else's
example most of the time) is line ten (the path) the only one that needs
customization? If so then, well, does something like... %UserProfile% work?

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[David Candy]

There are two lines with the path, one to read it and one to save it. I couldn't make userprofile work but that was because I was in C:\D&S\My Documents\My Documents (every install add a new layer of My Docs - I have a lot of them) and didn't realise it. So I hard coded. Still didn't work and I realised I was in an extra layer of My Docs.

This must come from 98 days as it was c:\My Documents earlier. I used to use it all the time but thought it was long ago lost and searched every post I've made with an attachment - but finally found it in a zip (q\q\q.zip - I am lazy).

I post these things for educational purposes.

 

[Galen]

In David Candy <.> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

There are two lines with the path, one to read it and one to save it.
I couldn't make userprofile work but that was because I was in
C:\D&S\My Documents\My Documents (every install add a new layer of My
Docs - I have a lot of them) and didn't realise it. So I hard coded.
Still didn't work and I realised I was in an extra layer of My Docs.

This must come from 98 days as it was c:\My Documents earlier. I used
to use it all the time but thought it was long ago lost and searched
every post I've made with an attachment - but finally found it in a
zip (q\q\q.zip - I am lazy).

I post these things for educational purposes.

And thus your posting is important (to me at any rate) as I learn from 'em.
*grins* Thanks... I will play with it and see what I come up with. If it's
really interesting I'll make an installer package and you can have it, give
it away, throw it at people, etc... I am just interested in the variables at
this point with an installer. I'm off on one of my digressions and 1:50 is
usually a valid path so I guess the averages are good enough for a guy like
me.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Alturas]

Attached is a Desktop Item that add a note pad (a yellow one) into the desktop.
There are no controls, anything typed is saved. You must edit note.html in notepad
and change the path for the data file twice. Then put database.txt whereever you
edited note.html to say where you were gonna put it., Then Start - Control Panel -
Display - Desktop - Customise Desktop - Web - New ... and browse to Note.html.

Slick, but Notepad alone accomplishes the same thing with no hacking
needed. You can shrink it to a Post-it size window if you need to keep
it "always on top." I don't know if it can be made yellow. I guess
people will always want throwbacks to the paper-only days and icons
still mimic paper objects.

Alturas

 

[Roy G. Ovrebo]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

[Unedited top-posted message in gibberish format elided]

Hey, ****wit. Stop top-posting, learn to edit, and get a real
newsreader.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

In


I couldn't help myself. I downloaded and gave it a shot. Before
hacking away at it (my VBScript skills are limited to learning
from someone else's example most of the time) is line ten (the
path) the only one that needs customization? If so then, well,
does something like... %UserProfile% work?

Hi,

To be able to use %UserProfile%, do the following modification to the
two subs PreviewTextFile and SaveFile:

Set fso= CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile(sh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings _
("%UserProfile%\My Documents\database.txt"), 1, False,-2)


If you want to be sure to use "My Documents" regardless of OS language
or folder redirect, you can use this code instead:

Set fso= CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile(sh.RegRead("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows" _
& "\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Personal") & "\database.txt", _
1, False,-2)

 

[David Candy]

To distribute meant extra code as one can't say "edit the program" to most people.

 

[Plato]

Does anyone know what Notepad, or better yet, Metapad, is for? You

NOtepad replacements:

http://www.bootdisk.com/tennessee/npplus.zip
http://www.bootdisk.com/tennessee/mpad35le.zip
http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html

 

[Julian Macassey]

To distribute meant extra code as one can't say "edit the program" to most people.

You are a top posting 'tard. Stay with Microsoft. You
deserve each other.

FOAD

 

[Julian Macassey]

NOtepad replacements:

http://www.bootdisk.com/tennessee/npplus.zip
http://www.bootdisk.com/tennessee/mpad35le.zip
http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html

What's wrong with a regular text editor?

 

[Galen]

In Torgeir Bakken (MVP) <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Hi,

To be able to use %UserProfile%, do the following modification to the
two subs PreviewTextFile and SaveFile:

Set fso= CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile(sh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings _
("%UserProfile%\My Documents\database.txt"), 1, False,-2)


If you want to be sure to use "My Documents" regardless of OS language
or folder redirect, you can use this code instead:

Set fso= CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set ts =
fso.OpenTextFile(sh.RegRead("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows" _ &
"\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Personal") &
"\database.txt", _ 1, False,-2)

Impressive - I'll just go ahead and make use of it and pretend I understand.
<g> Much thanks - and good work. I haven't tested it but, well, as it's from
you I'm pretty sure it works. Tonight I should have loads of free time.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Dan Hillman]

http://www.aipl.com/Sticky.jpg
http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_SM/0015-0404-1409-1735_SM.jpg

Does anyone know what Notepad, or better yet, Metapad, is for? You
don't need to load a slow-opening word processor to type basic numbers
and addresses.

Or you could just get a Macintosh and use the Address Book program. Not
only does it hold all that stuff, it also can be referenced by mail and
news clients as well as sync with your phone, iPod, and other PDAs.

 

[Aaron Burt]

http://www.aipl.com/Sticky.jpg

To keep your safe combination, LD billing code and passwords on. Duh!

Does anyone know what Notepad, or better yet, Metapad, is for?

To remind you that there are fates worse than pico?

ObPeeve: After 13 years in IT, I went back to uni for a BSEE (control
systems theory, electrical energy systems) so I'd never have to nursemaid
another goddamn incontinent malware-laden Winders PC. Come to find
out that most industrial-control and grid management stuff runs on $ToyOS.

!Peeve: Ubuntu.
Bonus: shaking the hand of a billionaire who's been in space. Nice guy.

 

[Bod]

Or you could just get a Macintosh and use the Address Book program. Not
only does it hold all that stuff, it also can be referenced by mail and
news clients as well as sync with your phone, iPod, and other PDAs.

Or Note Studio, a desktop wiki that syncs with PDAs, or at least with my
PDA.

 

[Ad absurdum per aspera]

Probably some of them were applied by co-workers people who despaired
of getting the person's attention any other way, short of crouching in
the coffee nook hoping to throw a net over him as he goes by.

There are also a variety of virtual sticky notes. I once got a trouble
call from a user who must've had two dozen of the things up at once,
many of them quite long (well, not thousands of words, but certainly in
the realm of things that deserved a real text editor). After saving
and closing this swarm of stickies, I didn't find anything notably
(heh) wrong with the machine, and am betting that that itself was the
problem.

--Joe

 

[Steve]

To keep your safe combination, LD billing code and passwords on. Duh!


To remind you that there are fates worse than pico?

There's nothing wrong with pico that a fire-axe couldn't solve. But
for real editor hell, you need to experience Emacs _and_ vi. Now
there's a holy war that resembles nothing so much as the endless debate
over the relative merits of the Democrat v.s. Republican political
frauds.

ObPeeve: After 13 years in IT, I went back to uni for a BSEE (control
systems theory, electrical energy systems) so I'd never have to nursemaid
another goddamn incontinent malware-laden Winders PC. Come to find
out that most industrial-control and grid management stuff runs on $ToyOS.

Isn't that why people wrote Wine? So people like you could run all
those toy applications in a virtual instantiation of a toy operating
system. You should be grateful there are people willing to donate
their time as developers so that you have more options than are now
made available by the Lage and Uncaring Multinational Corporations.

!Peeve: Ubuntu.
Bonus: shaking the hand of a billionaire who's been in space. Nice guy.

The phrase "more money than brains" comes to mind.


Regards,

Steve