Windows Sticky Notes to Get Native Formatting, Dark Mode; Possibly Coming to Android and iOS
Aug. 20, 2018Sticky Notes, despite its minimalism and the ease of note-taking, remains one of the oldest and iconic apps in Windows. It’s remained largely unchanged even as Windows has undergone a huge change in UI and look and feel. And now a team of engineers at Microsoft has now dedicated to modernize Sticky Notes that with arevamp that brings slew of new features to the app, along with cross-platform support.
Product Manager Reza Jooyandeh tweeted about the upcoming features. One of themuch-awaited features is a dark modewhich will let users sketch or type in lighter colors. Animproved formatting barwill add greater editing controls like strikethrough, bullet points that allow users to go beyond basic controls such as bold, italic, and underline. You can still get these on Sticky Notes by formatting the text in MS Word, but native support has been lacking sorely for years.
Additionally, Sticky Notes is also getting new animations,improved accessibility features for visually challenged users, and enhancements in terms of stability and performance. In contrast, the Stickies app in macOS comes with extra features including text alignment, font styles, inbuilt dictionary but one feature that Apple might have overlooked is cross-platform support.New logo for Sticky Notes 3.0
Microsoft, as perThurrott.com, is also working onsync features for Android and iOS devicesand is apparently building dedicated apps for the two platforms. While there is no other option but to have a dedicated app for iOS, we hope Microsoft adds support for Sticky Notes within theMicrosoft Launcherbesides releasing a standalone app.
