You probably using post-it notes attached to your monitor or desk to make reminders or short notes. If your post-it notes seem very disorganized and messed up your desk, maybe it’s time for you to use a virtual one.

PNotes is a small and light-weight sticky virtual notes program for Windows. It is skinnable and very flexible. Each individual notes can have their own settings, reminders, skins, fonts, colors, etc.. Some features of PNotes:

• Fully adjustable – you can set default fonts, colors and dimensions of notes
• Individual notes settings
• Rich text formatting – any portion note’s text can be formatted separately
• Password protection – allows you to set password for PNotes and prevent unauthorized access
• Encryption – in case you are running PNotes from USB drive, nobody could read your notes if you lost your USB drive
• Skinnable – skins for PNotes are available for download
• Scheduling – each note can have its own reminders to alert you about important task
• Overdue reminders – just in case your computer is off, PNotes can reminds you about any overdue reminders the next time you run PNotes
• Notes grouping - PNotes can group notes under same category so you can manage your notes easily

The notes that you’ve deleted are moved to the recycle bin first in case you need to access them later. You can bookmark important notes by adding them to PNotes favourites list for easy access. You can also perform quick search of your notes either by their contents or titles if you need to find something particular among your notes.

PNotes can be set to run automatically when your system starts. PNotes is open source and available for Windows operating systems. As for the technical part, PNotes uses around 20MB of memory and very little CPU. PNotes is written in C and Windows API.