I use my desktop a lot, and there are already too many files to click -- so I don't need another icon to click, but I need to have some simple reminder about my future tasks. I was looking for something simple and small, and always there. Yesterday I came up with the following solution.
Open Stickies and create a new note, without any line breaks, listing those tasks you want to get done. For example:
[Dentist/Holiday Shopping/Buy new coat/Get groceries/etc.]Grab the bottom right corner of the Sticky note, reduce it to a single line in height, and enlarge it horizontally to fill your screen width. Now minimize the Sticky (double-click on its title bar), and all your notes will show on the Sticky's title bar.
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