Alison Barrett

Take Notice lets you add one or more notice boxes across your entire site. For each notice, you can customize the following:
<ul>
<li>Whether to appear on all posts (of any post type)</li>
<li>Whether to appear on specific posts (of any post type)</li>
<li>Whether to appear on posts with certain terms (of any taxonomy)</li>
<li>Where to appear in the post (above or below the content)</li>
<li>Color of notice box (custom colors or preset palettes)</li>
<li>Whether to display the notice title with its content</li>
</ul>
Notices are a custom post type, so they can be managed and edited just like posts. You can add more than one notice at a time, and customize the above settings separately for each one. (See Screenshots for an example.)

Take Notice

Add notices to all of your posts & pages at once. Customize where and how they appear.

Mark

Adds a simple ‘Post-it’ widget to the Dashboard that allows you to leave yourself or other authors a note. The plugin can be configured and moved around as any other Dashboard widget. It will accept plain text or (sanitized) HTML. Only users with the capability “Edit dashboard” can edit the note.
This simple plugin is based on code from <a href="http://wpengineer.com/add-wordpress-dashboard-widgets/" title="Add WordPress Dashboard widgets" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Engineer</a> and <a href="http://rick.jinlabs.com/2009/02/01/how-add-options-to-your-wordpress-27-dashboard-widgets/" title="How to add options to your WordPress 2.7 Dashboard widgets" rel="nofollow ugc">Ricardo González Castro</a>. Leave your comments <a href="http://ideophone.org/dashboard-post-it/" title="Dashboard Post-it homepage" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.
Warning Your notes will be replaced by boilerplate text upon upgrading. Make sure to copy the content somewhere else before you upgrade and then paste it into the new version. Sorry about that!

Dashboard Post-it

Adds a simple 'Post-it' widget to the Dashboard that allows you to leave yourself or other authors a note.

Take Notice vs Dashboard Post-it