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how to synchronize sticky notes in windows 7

do you like sticky notes?  when i heard about it, the concept seemed pretty hokey to me.  there are an assortment of ways to capture notes on the desktop.  notepad, remember the milk, outlook, etc.  i thought i’d give it a try to see if i could capture random, short-lived things that you tend to quickly forget.

imageas it turns out, it worked – and i’m hooked.  i don’t just like sticky notes, i love sticky notes.  i keep notes for new music i want to explore later, short errands to run, and topics i want to look further Live_Mesh[1]into later.

the one short coming is that i can’t sync the notes.  i’m sure there are an assortment of ways to making this magic happen, but i decided to use a service i’ve been using for awhile: live mesh.

now really, all you have to know is the path where sticky notes keeps all its information:

C:\Users\<your user profile name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes

 

there’s a file called stickynotes.snt.  when synchronized, this file carries all the information from your sticky notes “environment” so to speak.  here’s what you need to do:mesh1_web[1]

  1. install live mesh on all computers where sticky notes synchronization needs to take place.
  2. on the first computer, navigate to the path noted above and choose “add folder to live mesh”.
  3. on the other computers, open up the live mesh program.
  4. in the news feed, locate where you created the live mesh folder.
  5. when you click the folder, it’ll ask to set the synchronization on the computer.  locate the path noted above and insert that as the “location”.
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  1. Marius1/28/10, 6:57 AM

    Hi. The synchronization seems to be working a bit dodgy.
    1. when you synchronize the first note, and it's done synchronizing to the second computer, how do you open the note?
    2. since I didn't find a good way to solve this, i copied the information from the primary file and added it to the new note.
    Then Added new information, and the file does still not synchronize when the change to the file is done (new time stamp).

    So. If you have any tips on how to actually sync the file, open it and it automatically updates the information, it would be much appreciated :)

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  2. ::marcus1/28/10, 7:35 AM

    hey marius -

    i found that i have the best success when i close sticky notes on the machine that has the changes, and let mesh sync the changes. on the opposite computer, i can open or close/open sticky notes and get the updates. it is a little dodgy. i'm still trying to figure out exactly the nuance behind it, but it seems elusive as sometimes i expect it to update, and it doesn't.

    the other trick i found is to copy the stickynotes.snt directly to the live mesh online desktop folder. your connected clients should sync down the copy from the web.

    thanks for the comment!

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  3. andythorpe2/28/10, 4:40 PM

    I've been thinking there should be a way to do this. Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try.

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  4. ::marcus3/1/10, 8:43 AM

    i found some interesting behavior about live mesh -- which seems to make sense. unless you close the notes (which saves it), live mesh doesn't see an update. once closed and the update synchronized, you can manage it again... otherwise you do run the risk of an update from a different computer writing over the one you're using.

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