An empty pad of sticky notes leaves nothing but sadness, a void of emptiness on your desk. Hope those ideas were good, Mr. Idea Man, because they cost a very small, very sticky stack of paper its life ...

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Tech companies keep trying to improve on a staple of office supplies since the 1970s, without preserving everything that made it useful in the first place. E-readers and tablets have us doing more of ...