#FreeToolTips – 5 Free Sticky Note Tools
December 17, 2018 by admin
Ho-ho-ho!! It is Holiday Season!!
And Holiday season is the only time of the year when we enthusiastically go through any kind of “lists”.. Christmas shopping lists, Christmas gifts list, List of folks attending the party. Previous New year Resolution List before the year gets over and so on! And what comes to yout mid when you think of lists? Sticky notes!! So this Holiday Season we bring to you a list of 5 Free Best Sticky Note Tools. For all your listing needs this year and beyond!!
Lino is a basic sticky notes tools which also enables easy photo/files sharing. This is an ideal tool to share your ideas with pictures and to have a discussion with your friends and colleagues. You can access lino from your home, office, or even on the road and post a sticky note online whenever you need! Free layout of your pictures and movies is another good feature. You can position your picture archives and movies as you like and share them with your friends. For sharing, you can easily create an Email message containing your note and send it to lino – It will be posted as a sticky.
This feature packed little tool helps you to set reminders. Set due dates on your stickies, and you will receive an Email reminder on the morning of the due date. You can also use Lino as a Bulletin board. Create a group with your friends and colleagues to share a canvas and stickies with them. And last but not the least, you can use Lino from smartphones. Take notes, post pictures and videos. Zoom in and out at will by pinch gesture.
Padlet is a much more sophisticated version of a sticky note. It is a collaboration tool. This tool has uses far beyond the Holiday season well into your classrooms. Padlet is almost perfecting the art of collaboration. You can work with unlimited contributors, invite others to contribute. The best part is, signup is not required. Give user permissions selectively – read-only, writing, moderator, or admin access; revoke at any time. Allow others to remake your work to use as a template.
This tool supports (almost) every file type. You can easily upload files from your computer, take a picture or video from your phone, or link from the web. It is very easy to embed content from anywhere on the web, including YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Vimeo, The New York Times, and 400 other apps. Attached links and files will appear with a gorgeous contextual preview to give viewers a hint of what you’re showing them.
This little sticky note wonder is available in 29 languages, with more being added. One can literally collaborate on padlets from around the globe. It is available on iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Android, and Kindle devices. And you can watch updates appear instantly across devices. You can even take photos and scan QR codes from within each app. Wallpapers can be utilized as organization tools, from a Venn Diagram, to KWL chart, to a calendar, to a To-Do list. From sticky notes to essays, it encompasses all types of writing.
Worried about privacy of all the info on the sticky notes? Choose from five options: Public, Secret, Password Protected, Totally Private, and Organization-Wide. This tool can be used as a publishing tool or private notes app, thanks to comprehensive privacy options. From each option, choose who can view, write on, or moderate your padlets. Premium users enjoy an organization-wide internal network separate from the rest of Padlet. Their Premium Plan has extra added benefits such as more file storage space, custom domain, more themes, manage and monitor user stats etc.
Pinup serves a a basic sticky note canvas. The simplicity of the tools is its greatness! They call the sticky notes as ‘pins’. You can take notes from your browser. Share and collaborate with others in real-time. Als with other tools, you can reach your notes from anywhere, with any device connected to the internet.There is a group chat option to chat with your fellow-collaborators! It allows pretty colors and grid option on the pins. You can freehand on the pins, convert them to a checklist or just write as such. Pictures and images can be uploaded to the notes as well. The tool also allows the pins to be imported to multiple canvas.
Notezilla is a sticky notes app for Windows designed to keep you well-equipped & well-organized. It is a professionally designed, simple & elegant sticky notes software. It lets you take quick notes on sticky notes (that look like 3M Post-It® Notes), right on your Windows desktop & gives you the best sticky notes experience. Notezilla was formerly known as ‘Quick Notes Plus‘. With the optional cloud synchronization feature, you can sync sticky notes between computers, access them from any smartphone using their free apps for iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows Phone or send sticky notes to any contact across the globe. This tool also has the option to add pictures/images and also a set reminder option. Another feature is to group & organize sticky notes using tags. Assign tags/labels to sticky notes to quickly access related sticky notes.
Some features that set this tool apart are the unique checklist sticky notes that allows you to create to-do-list with check boxes that you can tick-off. It’s fun to mark the tasks completed 🙂 One can also stick notes to webpages, documents, programs, apps, folders or any window. And automatically see the right note when you access that website, doc etc.
Notezilla can automatically sync sticky notes between your computers so that you can see them on all your desktops. Access sticky notes from anywhere or any device. Sync sticky notes with the cloud & access them from any smartphone such as iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, iPad, Blackberry or access from a Mac from an Internet Browser. You can also send sticky notes to any contact across the world. Notezilla users will receive those sticky notes right on their desktop. Others will receive them as email. Cool huh? We think so too!
Scrumblr is also a collaboration tool. It is more of a canvas or a bulletin board where ideas can be shared or some form of collaboration be done. We can instantly make a canvas, fill it with sticky notes and share it with any group of people. The interface resembles a whiteboard and there is a casual air to the app. Super fast, free and ridiculously easy. Serves the job of being the perfect little accessible sticky note canvas.
Widgets and apps on your browser enables you to have basic sticky notes on your desktop. Chrome has a very basic popular version of sticky notes as a free widget. There is a multitude of mobile apps with sticky notes features which are available for Android and iOS. This Holiday season, you are spoilt for choice!
What is your go-to sticky note app? Share your comments here!!