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Take it and Stikkit

Nov 9, 01:47 PM | written by John Peele

Web apps are popping up all over the place. I found this one on the new Webware site (the Cnet blog network) by watching their roundup video from Web 2.0. It is called Stikkit.

It looks like it has some potential and it does some nifty things by analyzing the content of your stickies and then performing functions accordingly. For example, if you paste in a url into a new stickie Stikkit “knows” and then turns the new stickie into a Bookmark Stikkit.

When you create a new stickie, you will see a flashing “thinking…” icon in the upper right corner, indicating (obviously) that it is AJAXing your entry and attempting certain functions for you. You can create a to-do list very easily by typing ”- ” before each separate entry line. At the bottom of the stickie you will notice Stikkit “thinks” that you are creating a to-do list. Add a relative day and time to the end of an entry and Stikkit will create a corresponding entry on your calendar (much like Backpack Calendar or Google Calendar. Add the words “remind me” to the end of that and now you have a reminder waiting to be sent to you via SMS.

Of course you can tag everything, and probably should due to the simplicity of the interface. You can view a history of all your stikkits, share your stikkits, and use a bookmarklet to easily add stikkits as you are browsing. This is the first kind of “review” article that we have written for the Journal and thought that it might be a good way to share things with our readers that we come to while surfing our lives away.

I swear, one of these days, I think this blogging thing is really going to catch on for us. And instead of one post every 1-2 months, we’ll up it to 2 POSTS every 1-2 months. Just kidding… Hang in there, we’ll get better soon. We’re just too busy reading everyone else’s blogs!