I am sure that many people write messages and informations down on many different places.

You can do it too using one of applications displaing informations on a desktop.

Notes

It's a simply application available in "xfce4-goodies" package.

Run it from: Menu-> Accessories-> Notes.

Home page: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin

Tomboy

Tomboy is a part of GNOME project and it is for creating and organising notes.

1. Installation:

apt-get install tomboy

2. Run it: Menu-> Accessories-> Tomboy Notes.

3. Features:

a. spell checking

b. auto-linking of web and email addresses

c. font styling and sizing

d. bulleting lists

e. plug-ins installation

Tomboy home page: http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/

And on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomboy_%28software%29

Screenlets

Screenlets installation and configuration is here: Desktop add-ons

1. Choose the "Notes" applet.

2. Place it on the desktop.

3. Lock the position if you want.

4. Go to: Options and tick: Auto start on login.

Home page: http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Home