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A Sticky Note is a simple medium for storing a short written information.

A memo is usually from a trimmed to a manageable size piece of paper writable.

In addition to the conventional industrial form offered in the form of note pad or note book consists (also called memos ) for office and home in a variety of shapes and colors a diverse and growing range of pre- writing notes. You meet them in cube shape, in plastic box, etc. Because of its visual presence of the memo is often used commercially as imaginatively designed advertising. Prefabricated Stickies have usually the format of 8.25 cm x 8.25 cm.

History

Stickies are commonly used in addition to wax and slates and wooden sticks already in the time of the Hanseatic League. Their flexibility made ​​them superior to the comparatively bulky bound book in some ways. A limit was reached when the quantity of the list of hand picked.

In many offices the advent of the paper was impaled on a vertical needle and thus as it were sorted.

With the advent of electronic data processing, most booking process have been automated and digitized. The associated prophecy of the " paperless office" has thus not fulfilled, however. On the contrary, paper, notepad consumption have continued to increase.

Certain professional and collector groups come without Stickies for searches with necessary mechanical rearrangements not matter how archivists, writers, etc. A technical " development " of the Sticky Note, the index card dar.

A particular success recognized the practical sticky notes. Also electronic notepad programs for your computer are available.

• Storage medium
• Paper product
• For writing