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Ole Zorn's SketchBox is a little multifunctional yet uncluttered Sticky Notes Manager for your Mac Desktop.

SketchBox's notes are configured in three tabbed panes; the first for freehand drawing with a mouse or graphics tablet, a simple text entry field and a visual alarm clockpane with which you can set individual reminders for each sticky.

While editing text you can still see any drawing that may be present in the drawing layer drawing in the semitransparent background and vice-versa.

You select the active layer by clicking on one of the tabs at the right side of the note. Each Sticky remembers its active layer, so that you can continue where you left after closing the Sticky's window. You can also set a default layer for new Stickies in the preferences.

You can close Stickies at any time and they will remember their position on screen and their content without bothering you with a save panel. You can stick individual notes to the Desktop if you don't want them to clutter Exposé or make them appear always on top for important things.

The drawing canvas has extensive support for graphics tablets with pressure sensitivity and you can use the backside of your pen as an eraser.Drawings can be saved as a PNG file with alpha channel or just copy them over to other applications like Pages, Word or even Photoshop.

Using SketchBox as a reminder, you don't have to enter numbers, just wind up the clock with your mouse by dragging or using your scroll wheel.

An electronic doodle pad is not a particular attraction to me. I'm a terrible freehand artist, as the screenshot illustrates.

I don't even doodle with a pencil or pen, but if you are a doodler, then this electronic scratchpad feature of Sketchbox may appeal.

There is no documentation, so it takes a bit of experimentation to figure out how things work. It's not that difficult, although far from transparently intuitive.

As well as the individual sticky notes, there is a master interface window that displays all open stickies Exposé-style.

Text is supposed to be searchable, but I didn't discover how to make that work.

There were no release notes on teh Website or ReadMe with the application, so I'm not sure what the System requirements are, but it works fine with OS 10.4.9 on my Pismo.

SketchBox is a relatively modest 2.3 MB download, and it’s freeware, so there is little impediment to checking it out if it sounds interesting to you.

For more information, visit:
http://www.omz-software.de/sketchbox_index.html


Charles W. Moore

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