Post-it notes using WPF.
I am a very big fan of Post-it notes. It keeps my day organized. But one problem with these notes are that they are physical and once you are not physically present in your office, theres no way to access them.. So that was when I shifted to the software Post-it notes. This is very handy and I have been using them for a couple of years. It looked like a nice app to make in WPF and I spent some time on it in December and it came out pretty nice. So heres how it looks like:
Looks good!! aint it .. :) ... There can be enhancements but i havent touched it for quite some time.... so what does it have - a splash screen the old alpha-chanel way (its much simpler using WPF and I have a couple of posts on it ) and some post-it note logic.
So here are the features:
· Each note can be colored for importance or your likes
· Content is retained after closing so that it opens up the same way
· The arrangement of notes is retained so that there is no need for rearrangement
· Notes can be made to appear on the top of all windows
· No cluttering in the taskbar – they minimize on the screen itself
· Foreground color can be set
· Rich formatting possible since it’s a RichtextBox
· Alarm functionality provided
· Active alarm has black border and is on the top
· Once the time is passed the note is in passive state for 8 hours and is shown with red border
· Dismissing the alarm in active state puts it in passive state
· Removing the alarm resets the note appearance
· Alarm presence is indicated with a icon in the menu
· Email functionality for the note – only plain text is sent
· Its free ;)
One possible thing to make it snazzy is to use the UsesPerPixelOpacity property on the windows so that they have the different shapes.
Have fun posting :) (btw for the interested the proj is attached )