When I read the description I thought that I would be able to draw and make notes on my desktop, given that the description says "DoodleDesk puts a blank canvas where your background would be, and lets you draw freely." I can't. I can draw and make notes in this app, and then instantly make that my desktop, but I can't draw on it while it's my desktop. I thought I'd be able to use the show desktop funciton and be able to write notes, but as this is, it's much less convenient.

Let me begin with the disclaimer that I'm a Wacom tablet kind-of-mac-user and having a tablet might be part of what makes this application even more fascinating for me. And also I confess to having several post-it notes around the bezel of my screen. That being said, this application has a clean interface that is simply elegant. It boils down to two markers (black and blue), an eraser, and a virtual post-it note cube. When the application is open, you can write on the "desktop" whiteboard and then elegantly "finish" by selecting a "desktop" button and the screen that you've been drawing on "drops" down into the background while the applicaiton is open. It is easy enough to go back and "markup" and re-edit the file or even save and create a new one. I questioned the need to use a uniqe file format (.dood), but I'm guessing it allows the user to go back and reposition and edit the post-it notes more than anything…which is fine with me since it isn't a static jpg. Having the ability to save and open different DoodleDesktops may very well work well to create a note page/checklist/to-do's for each project I'm working on and have the relevant one in the background at the time. I have in the past gone into a Photoshop-type applications and customized a background screen, made just to fit my resolution, saved it, loaded it in System Preferences and essentially have done this same thing, but the simplicity of DoodleDesk is impressive. I almost don't want to quit the application and see my old desktop image…it could be a keeper…and I might even let the app just start as a login item…Three items nag at me…what happens if I move the .dood file over to a laptop…how will it scale/adapt to the change of screen sizes…and hopefully a future update will allow pasting or importing of images as well as variable sizing of the pen to make it either fine point or sharpie-size.

Just purchased. Read the reviews and decided to try. Definitely works well with a Wacom Bamboo Tablet Attached. I am planning on going to the classroom and using as a white board for notes projecting onto a screen. Also plan on trying in meetings that I chair. The notes can be saved as JPEG, TIFF or the graphic files, so I am not too concerned about the limitations noted, as I can organize these files, maybe into Powerpoint and then share. I'll write an update 4 weeks from now as to how successful I was in using the program. You will need to buy tablet I believe to achieve the best utility of this program. Price is very reasonable, especially if it works in my working world…to be followed up in 4 weeks or so if I am allowed to write another review.

1. If I choose the marker at a small size and then i choose the eraser and a larger size and then go back to the marker, I expected the two to have a different size. Instead I had to make the eraser a larger size and then when I went back to the marker I had to re-adjust the size. Doing this many times is a bit annoying.2. Ability to add images. I am working on a project and we are trying to figure out how the website should be layed out. Would love to see our current home as an image and be able to circle around it and take notes etc.Besides that it has been great. Thank you.