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Sticky Notes

Sticky Notes creates virtual Post-it notes that you can stick anywhere on

your screen—a triumphant software answer to the thousands of people who
stick notes on the edges of their actual monitors.

You can type quick notes and to-do items, paste in web addresses or phone

numbers you need to remember, or store any other little scraps and snippets
of text you come across (Figure 8-31). In the newly overhauled May 2019
Update, your notes can sync wirelessly and magically to your other
Windows 10 machines.

Figure 8-31. See the automatically underlined links, dates, and phone numbers? Microsoft calls that
formatting “Insights”; it means they’re clickable. Click a link, for example, to open that website.

You can turn this feature off, if you like; select a note, then , then , and turn off “Enable
insights.”

You also get a table-of-contents note that offers a preview of all your other
notes. It’s called the Notes List, and you can make it appear or disappear by