

This opens your Sticky Notes list on your mobile device. At the top of the Settings window, if you aren’t already signed in, you should see a Sign in button here. To do this, open the Notes List we mentioned above, and select the gear icon to open Settings. To make sure you can access your Sticky Notes on all devices, make sure you’re logged into your Microsoft account from the Sticky Notes application. While sticky notes are very useful on one device, they’re even more useful if you can access the same notes from all devices you use. Now that you have a good understanding of how Sticky Notes on Windows 10 works and how to use it, let’s look at a couple of ways to make them even more useful.

Color: Choose the color scheme to use to match your overall Windows theme.Confirm before deleting: Enables a pop-up confirmation when you delete a Sticky Note so that you don’t accidentally delete one.Enable insights: Enable the feature letting Cortana scan your notes for information, or add new notes for you.Now click Remind in the Cortana panel and you’re done. Click Add Reminder and Cortana pops up on the taskbar with your reminder ready to go (see the picture at the top of this post). Click it and a button appears at the bottom that says Add Reminder. Now if you wait a few seconds, the “August 2 at 4PM” part will turn into a blue link.

as an example I have no idea what time the update will actually drop.Ĭlick Add Reminder to send the new reminder to Cortana. Now, type in a reminder such as, “Remind me to download the Anniversary Update on August 2 at 4PM”-I’m just using 4 p.m. The window that appears doesn’t look all that different from previous iterations-though thankfully the horrible handwriting font is gone. First, type Sticky Notes into Cortana’s search bar and select the app, or go to Start > S > Sticky Notes. It’s still an app that comes bundled with Windows, but now it’s built on a different platform and it integrates with Cortana.Ĭreating a sticky reminder in the Anniversary Update With the Anniversary Update, Microsoft is converting the old program into a shiny, new Windows Store app.
