On my Windows 7 boxes, and my SUSE Linux boxes, I love the StickyNotes / TomBoy apps. StickyNotes showed up first in the Linux world and I fell in love immediately. How cool to be able to pull up a virtual StickyNote, jot down some info, and place it somewhere on your screen, or close the app but not lose the data. In Windows 7, not only can you drag the notes around on the screen, stack them on top of each other, but you can also change the colors. This helps me keep track of notes for my different book series. For instance, the first series gets Purple, second gets Green, fourth gets Yellow, third gets Pink, and my blog post notes get White.
The only problem with the StickyNotes on Windows 7 is that most backup solutions won't copy it because it doesn't reside in the Documents folder, and many users have no idea where the little data file is stored. That means, if you're machine has to be re-imaged (i.e. Windows has to be installed from scratch) you may lose that data. The good news is that all of your StickyNotes are in one little file and that can simply be copied to an external drive, USB stick, or CD; take your pick. The file name is StickyNotes.snt and it sits in the c:\Users\curentusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft (where currentusername is who you log in as).
Another issue is you when you click on what is normally the "close" button in the top right corner (the "X"), it deletes the note rather than close it down. So to close your StickyNotes you actually have to go to the taskbar, right click on the StickyNotes icon and select "Close Window". Your notes will be saved and reopened next time you launch StickyNotes
