The new Sticky Notes provides stock information when a ticker is typed or written, and it provides flight info when a flight number is typed or written. It is designed to be stick to the desktop or move around. The new version directly accepts pen input and can recognize words and letters in handwritten text, basic text formatting, pictures. The latter method causes the space behind the notes to become blurred. It can be launched as a standalone app or part of the Windows Ink workspace.
In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, released in 2016, a new version of Sticky Notes built on the Universal Windows Platform was introduced. This version was reused in Windows 8 and the initial releases of Windows 10. Sticky Notes have jumplists and a taskbar preview, which shows the notes in a stack. The default color is yellow, but five other colors are offered. This version did not directly support pen input. Gadgets were continued in Windows 7, though Sticky Notes itself became a standalone app built on the Win32 platform, that could still open at startup.
The original Sticky Notes was a gadget included with Windows Vista.