Open Outlook and choose NOTES, then right-click to choose New Note (or click New at the top on your standard toolbar). It's just a text box, so go ahead and write out your reminder to try out for American Idol or take Fido to the vet.

Feel free to click in its top left corner on the tiny picture of the sticky note to change the color if you want (if you followed along and assigned categories to your calendar entries a couple months back when The 5 Minute Bulletin Board ezine showed you how to use your Outlook calendar, those categories are in there now. Simply choose the color you want or assign one now, and it will apply to your calendar as well).

Close when you're done to save and exit. To find it again, just open up NOTES and you'll see it there. If you want, you can always drag one of these e-stickies onto your desktop, too. To delete a note, just right-click on its listing in your NOTES folder and choose Delete, as you would an email.