Someone had once remarked that simplicity is making the journey of life with just baggage enough.

Sometimes, I take a stab at apply the same axiom to my " soft aware' life too.

And that involves squeezing the maximum juice out of what’s available in my computer.

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Life with Notepad couldn’t be any simpler.

It strips all formatting and keeps data in its plain format.

We all use Notepad to store our scraps of data as text files.

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But with a little bit of tip and tuck it can be made into an effective sticky note.

The " Edit File punch in' box opens.

bang out in " open' and " notepad.exe' respectively in the two fields.

make your own sticky notes

Close this box and move on to the " Edit File pop in' box.

Give a nice and apt name to the icon.

I gave mine an unimaginative " Sticky Note'.

make sticky notes

Close all open boxes.

(4) Create a new registry value

No, this is not as scary as it sounds.

Just a simple two step process.

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(5) Just reboot.

(6) Using it"finally.

After all the hard work, it’s time for the fruits.

your own sticky notes

Want to list down a to-do list?

jot down in the task under file name and then initiate the file to write something more descriptive.

Create as many " Sticky Notes' as you want and arrange them on the desktop.