Gettin' Stikkit widget

I've long thought just how odd it is that the sticky notes stuck to your virtual desktop are, well, stuck to your virtual desktop. The affordance of being able to stick a sticky note of the paper variety to someone else's desktop or your other desktop never seems to have made the leap across that atom-to-bit chasm.

Since we released the Stikkit API, I've eagerly awaited a Stikkit widget for my OS X dashboard. And as if by magic, here it is...

Stikkiteer James Adam rolled up his programmatic sleeves and tucked into Dashcode to build a full-featured and well-styled Stikkit Dashboard Widget. Create new stikkits, find and edit existing ones—multiple at a time—and click the "synch" button to save them to Stikkit online. And the widget grabs a snapshot of the latest online each time you show the dashboard so that you always have piping hot stikkits just when you need them.

While you're there picking up your copy of the widget, be sure to read Adam's thoughts on "Stikkit - My Smart, Short-Term Online Memory."

And if you're a Windows stikkiteer, you've a widget too, thanks to the work of Brett Kelly on winstikker. You might have run across Brett's detailed piece on "How to Make Stikkit into Your Personal GTD Powerhouse" featured on Lifehacker a little while back. He also wrote a utility to import your Gmail contacts into Stikkit. Writes Brett, "Any more of this stuff and people are going to start to wonder if I work for Values of n (makers of Stikkit - and no, I don’t work for them - yet ;)."

This is the stuff of Stikkit and the very reason we sat down to write it in the first place and then—quick as we could given the time-constraints of a small team—followed it with a complete, fully-documented API. We're so appreciative of the efforts of so many people to share their expertise with the community, whether that be as apps and code, tips and techniques, detailed write-ups, suggestions, and bug reports.

(Want to try your hand at a widget all your own? No matter which platform you call home, if you're up for a little tinkering you can use either of these two widgets as a starting point as both keep their source in plain sight—and winstikker is licensed as Open Source.)

P.s. Apologies for the title... I just couldn't not.

Search Stikkit from your Mac

Our recently featured stikkiteer iNik has gone so far as to set up a page of his own for Stikkit tricks. His most recent: search Stikkit from your Mac by adding some simple one-liner magic to Firefox (this'll work for Windows users too), OmniWeb, LaunchBar, and Quicksilver. Nice.

iNik's AppleScript stikkiteering

The other morning during my normal morning routine I ran across a forum post in our "Widgets, Hacks, and more" forum by stikkiteer iNik that had me jumping up and down (literally).

iNik wrote a comprehensive AppleScript package (for Mac OS X) dubbed New Stikkit Package that you can run in various forms: as a stand-alone double-clickable AppleScript application, hook into Quicksilver or Launchbar, or use as a Mac OS X service from just about any other application. It'll even send notifications to Growl.

Seeing people like iNik write useful pieces of code that support an application I care about never gets old. When people ask me, "How's Stikkit going?" I never fail to tell them about people like iNik.

Check out his work, grab a copy and give it a spin, and be to let iNik know what you think.

Thanks, iNik!

Stikkit on your desktop

We're always thinking about ways to keep Stikkit close at hand. Assuming you do too ;-), I thought I'd point to a couple of little apps we've come across to do just that.

Steven Frank's lovely little WebKit-based WebDesktop for Mac OS X overlays Stikkit (or any other site for that matter) on your desktop, leaving it dimmed until you start interacting with it. An auto-refresh setting means fresh content shows up without need of a manual reload.

And Stikkiteer bmassey finds Bubbles, a system-tray enhancement for Windows, a perfect way to keep a logged-in instance of Stikkit at hand.

Have a Stikkit hack to share? Pop in to the "Widgets, Hacks, and more" forum and let us know.