Help us share notes on our win-mac network

October 19, 2006 6:33 PM

How can we best share short notes and reminders across our win-mac network?

When our home network was Windows-only we used Tom Revell's Stickies for personal notes and reminders that we could optionally share across the network. Now that we've introduced a couple of Macs to the network we need something similar that will work cross-platform. Does such a program exist?

Ideally we'd like a quicker and more elegant solution than using various desktop 'sticky notes' programs and then cutting & pasting into email or IM. If no such program exists, can you suggest a creative solution?

posted by harmless to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Sounds like you could be talking about an intranet community blog.
posted by paulsc at 6:42 PM on October 19, 2006

Get a wiki.
posted by cytherea at 8:05 PM on October 19, 2006

There are a bunch of web options: Posticky, Webnote, My Stickies. Not as good as a real app but a lot easier to program.
posted by smackfu at 8:50 PM on October 19, 2006

Well, you could use Yahoo Widgets (ne Konfabulator) in conjunction with a note widget.

If you point both note widgets at the same file you should be able to get the effect you want.

Alternatively, Google's customized homepage has a sticky note tool now.
posted by oddman at 9:19 PM on October 19, 2006

use instant messaging. either all get aim accounts (or yahoo, or msn or gtalk, whatever) OR install a jabber server on one of your machines onsite (if you're into that sort of thing). then have everybody join a chat room and leave it open all day. you could have several rooms for different groups of peoples, and still, of course have IM one-to-one. also, i like gaim as the client and you can use it to set up chat rooms (muti-person IMing) even if you only all have aim accounts
posted by qbxk at 10:46 PM on October 19, 2006

This is for a family home?
How about a lo-tek analog solution? Like a family bulletin board in a central location (kitchen?)
~Crawls back into his little cave with the other dinosaurs...
posted by Thorzdad at 7:40 AM on October 20, 2006

These are all great suggestions! Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas. We'll be trying out a few of the solutions and hopefully come to an agreement on one that works best for us. A few of these ideas have really opened up our eyes to possible solutions we would never have considered on our own.

Thorzdad: No, we have one of those already for family/domestic stuff, but thanks anyway. Our home network supports a bunch of people who work/study from home in varying degrees and sometimes work collaboratively. In hindsight it might have been helpful for me to include details about why and what we need to share, but I was trying to keep the question as brief and focused as possible ;-)
posted by harmless at 6:36 PM on October 20, 2006