Comment 4 for bug 447013

@Mitsch: did you have to power-off your system(s) without a clean shutdown lately? Or do you have your /home in filesystems other than ext3?

I also lost my stickynotes once (in 8.10 I think). I was experimenting with new graphic drivers and had some crashes and freezes and then after a restart the notes were gone. I think stickynotes is not immune against kernel crashes. It stores all the notes automatically and frequently into one single file. If it gets interrupted by a crash while storing, this file might get damaged or empty.