Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. Maybe Thoreau had it right. Our 21st century lives are increasingly complex. How can you keep it simple?
Forget all the personal organization apps that complicate your life. Go simple. Your Mac already has a wonderfully effective organizing tool. Stick this empowerment app on your Mac and get simple and productive.
Stickies To The Rescue
Complex problems require complex solutions, right? Not so fast. Henry David Thoreau (who would have been a Mac user) preached simplicity in life.
That’s easier said than done, but where there’s a will there must be an easier way.
As it turns out, in this complicated world, there is an easier way to organize yourself.
What’s the most simple organizing tool on your Mac? iCal? Please. Don’t humor me. It’s Stickies. Apple’s version of the still popular Post-it Notes.
Stickies is already on your Mac, you already know how to use it, and it’s free. Giving Stickies a super power costs a few bucks but is worth it you need instant organization. Just add Switchies and Stickie’ power increases ten fold (give or take an order).
Switchies To The Rescue Of Stickies
You know that Stickies are those digital Post-It Notes you stick on your Mac’s screen, right? They stretch wide and long. They come in different colors. You can change fonts. But after that, Stickies don’t do much.
Switchies gives you multiple categories of Stickies. It’s like having Stickies multiplied but according to your need for different sets. Create a set for business, a set for home, a set for personal items. Switchies gives the free Stickies a super power.
Add a Stickies set for a to-do list, a honey-do list, secret photos, passwords and login IDs, or any other kind of information you need to see quickly but without cluttering up your Mac’s screen with a hundred multi-colored Stickie windows.
Switchies is a Stickies organizer.
Since you already know how to use Post-It Notes, then you already know how to use Stickies on your Mac.
Since you already know how to use Stickies, Switchies is simple.
Create a set of Stickies using whatever short name or description makes sense to you. Assign a color to each set. The Switchies menu makes it easy to switch from one Stickies set to another with a mere click.
Is there more to Switchies than that? Nope. That’s it. Switchies gives you multiple sets of Stickies on your Mac’s screen. Switch from one set to another set with a click.
A Catch To Super Powers?
There it is. Who would have thought that the simple answer to a complex life of dates, calendars, address books, personal information managers, to-do list apps, and project managers would be digital Post-It Notes on your Mac?
Switchies isn’t free (Stickies is free), but the price tag is nominal and worthy because it gives super powers to Stickies.
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