Hey Darren – here is my first Vista Vision! I was really happy to see the sidebar come back after it was initially dropped. And one of the reasons is that it helps complete the desktop metaphor around having things that are easily within reach that you can either use or look at.
One of my favourite gadgets is the out of the box Notes gadget that allows me to quickly scratch something temporary onto a piece of “virtual” paper. In the case below I had a problem using Groove and I didn’t have time to submit a formal bug report right there and then so just put it into a note so that I didn’t forget.
The first of the two notes was the key that I had to keep typing in to the various Office 12 setup programs, but I decided not to take a screenshot of that . . .