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The invention of the sticky note was a revolution for those of us who are into personal productivity.

It lets us jot down ideas and put them anywhere.

Melvin is in love with sticky notes.

He first discovered them when he wanted to learn Swahili.

He wrote the Swahili words for common objects

and stuck them up all over his house.

He dropped the chorus after three weeks,

but he left the sticky notes up because he liked them so much.

Bernice uses sticky notes to record her deep thoughts.

Every time she has a thought, down on a sticky note it goes.

Then she looks for someplace around her office where she's sure to see it, and she sticks it right up there.

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Is right next to,

Sales report needs more curly cues.

It's a really good thing.

Bernice's influence extends only to her own life.

I also jot ideas down everywhere.

I use scraps of paper, little notepads, and the back of cash register

receipts. The problem is that once there are ideas floating around everywhere, how do they ever

get found? And how do they end up right where you need them when you need them? Melvin says the answer

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