Workspaces and the classroom Post-it notes can be used in design teams to offer up personal ideas, assist in group activities like brainstorming, and support design thinking and design outcomes. They offer a wide variety of advantages in a classroom—for instance, they are cost efficient, don't take time to set up, and are simple enough to be used by almost any age group. They have uses in concept mapping, labeling models, and more. They can also be used when explaining and teaching about broader terms like genetics. They are used in the workplace both to convey information and to offer praise or words of encouragement. They can help boost communication between coworkers and can help communications between departments. They can also serve to praise people or tell them to keep up the good work. They can be used to annotate textbooks in place of standard highlighting and sideline note-taking methods, allowing the pages to remain free of markings. Additionally, Post-it notes can be used to visually guide students to important points in the textbook, helping them find information faster. Students can easily collaborate on an organizer by each contributing one idea or clause on a Post-it. In ''
Grey's Anatomy, the Post-it became an iconic symbol of commitment after Meredith and Derek used a blue Post-it to declare their wedding vows, a significant pop-culture moment. In season six of Sex and the City'', the Post-it was used to facilitate a breakup. Post-it notes have appeared in episodes of various TV shows, including
The Office,
Parks and Recreation,
Being Mary Jane, and
Doctor Who. The posts under this hashtag feature Post-its as art mediums, bookmarks, flipbooks, and more. One LinkedIn member posted about mapping the customer journey through Post-its with tips on involving different team members and organizational strategy.
Persuasion Post-it notes may have a positive effect on how people interact with information presented to them. This is backed up by research that aimed to determine how attaching a blank Post-it note to a survey affected participation in the survey. The research found that the surveys with affixed Post-it notes were more likely to be completed and returned, and that the participants were more likely to write higher quality responses to the questions.
Art "The Yellow Stickee Diary of a Mad Secretary", by Rosa Maria Arenas, is the mini
graphic journal of an office worker/artist, exhibited July 7 through August 25, 2013, at the Michigan Institute of Contemporary Art (MICA) Gallery in
Lansing, Michigan. The 41 drawings displayed are a tiny percentage of the more than 2000 original drawings that constitute the Yellow Stickee Diary Project which Arenas created while working temp jobs from 1994 to 2005. Printed with archival inks on archival paper, the reproductions include "stickee sized" (3″ × 5″) framed prints and enlargements of the original drawings (which were all done on Post-it notes). In 2012, Turkish artist Ardan Özmenoğlu was selected to have a solo exhibition at Bertrand Delacroix Gallery in the art district of
Chelsea, Manhattan. The exhibition, titled "E Pluribus Unum" (Latin for "Out of many, one"), opened November 15, 2012 and featured large scale works on Post-it notes. Post-it notes at the
Paradeplatz in
Zürich In 2004,
Paola Antonelli, a curator of
architecture and
design, included Post-it notes in a show entitled "Humble Masterpieces". Rebecca Murtaugh, a
California artist, who uses Post-it notes in her artwork, in 2001 created an installation by covering her whole bedroom with $1000 worth of the notes, using the ordinary yellow for objects she saw as having less value and
neon colors for more important objects, such as the bed.
The Lennon Wall, a message board created during the
2014 Hong Kong protests from a stretch of curved staircase in the
Central Government Complex, is covered in multi-colored Post-it notes with handwritten messages from supporters. In 2011, at the Munich, Germany Apple store, a group of Apple fans paid tribute to
Steve Jobs by constructing a portrait of him out of 4001 Post-it notes. The use of Post-its resembled
pixel art as each Post-it acted as a single pixel. Smith used Instagram as a platform to engage with the social injustice posed by the pandemic. Covid Manifesto is part of an online exhibit at the
Carnegie Museum of Art, which premiered on September 3, 2021. Levee set up tables and chairs in
Union Square Station and invited commuters to express their thoughts and feelings on Post-it notes. Plans are presented here and the public can freely share their ideas, opinions, and feedback on potential projects, often in the form of Post-it note annotations. In 2016, at the
Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, the public wrote their reflections on the life of
Prince on Post-it notes and posted them near the exhibit. Some Post-it notes were archived by the museum to preserve the public sentiment expressed at the time. ==Software implementations==