Writing on the desktop

That sounds a little hard to accomplish. They would have to write code for every file format and then what... have a seperate version of the file (a picture copy of it with your markerings on it), but be unable to see those notations if you open the file in the program that created it (like if it was a pdf or word file)

Maybe the only way this makes sense is with pictures. I know i do alot of stuff like that lately for this one class (gotta write assembly code and based on a silkscreen of a circuit board, draw with various colors, connections between certain pins so when i get to the lab, it's easy for me and my lab partner to get the wires in the right places)... But i use photoshop cause i love the history/layers thing :P

So maybe this kinda only makes sense as an addition to the stickies feature we got now? a way to use markers to draw on the stickies i'm saying (in addition to typing), like maybe i want to use a marker to cross out stuff i completed :P

So like on the side of the sticky have some 4 or so marker icons that you can click to paint the sticky in realtime. That sounds cool... ok this is just my spin on this idea so.

O writing on the desktop? what does that have to do with writing on documents on the desktop... how bout way to writing TODO's on the desktop with markers :P

OK i gotta get back to my hw in photoshop with the wires thing :)

Don't be so pessimistic - just embed word, or open officen or Google Apps etc.

(...by the way: any good photo program has versioning, GIMP's is indefinite.)