For ages, I've been using OneNote to record random notes that I might want to record.  This works pretty well for the most part, but OneNote is a fairly feature rich application and while it can store everything (which is cool) most of the time all I need to store is a small bunch of text.  So recently I decided to try another app that I found about a year ago, but didn't try in angst.

Notescraps is a tiny little WPF application that works off the sticky note concept.  This application is mind-bogglingly simple, but very effective at what it does.

It runs in the system tray on start up, which means that starting it is very quick.  Being simple, it doesn't support formatting or similar such things, however, it does have nice search (complete with nice WPF bouncing) and it stores its data in a simple txt file that can be opened and edited with any text editor.

In the file you'll see text delimitation like below:

Which in the application appears like this:

What is really cool about this application is that it works really well with live mesh.  If you add a note on one computer, it automatically appears on another computer that you've synced with.  It seems to respond to the file system event that indicates that the NoteScraps data file has been updated and automatically updates the UI.

Its also really cheap.  The free version allows you to have 10 notes, however, the full version only costs US$20.

Don't just take my word for it, Frank liked it too :-)