Uh-oh!
Then something is messed up on your device!
There should be a "Sticky Notes" item right where you can add any other widget.

Well, if you add it from the "Add widget" section, it doesn't happen.

Nah, now I can see something wrong is definitely going on.
Sticky Notes should definitely be started upon startup.

Note that only the notes which you haven't deleted should re-appear.

Obviously, for me it does - but the fact that for you it doesn't (and also the absence of the item in the Add widget menu) indicates that something may be wrong.

Could the others please report about these?

• Do you have Sticky Notes in the Add widget menu? (possibly at the bottom)
• Does the notes reappear for you on device reboot? (they should appear some seconds later than other widgets)
  Note that the deleted notes will never return.

If the answer to either of these are "no", please check the below:

• In /usr/share/applications/hildon-home, there should be a file called "sticky-notes-widget.desktop". Does it exist?
  This file should instruct hildon-home to put my app into the Add Widget menu.
• In /etc/event.d, there should be an extensionless file called "sticky-notes". Does it exist?
  This file contains the necessary instructions to start Sticky Notes when the system starts.

When installed, the package should install these files, so a re-install may fix this.
If it does not, then something more is going on.

I would be very happy if you could help me debug this!

EDIT:

I just uninstalled Sticky Notes and deleted its files - and the file that should go into /etc/event.d/ does not get installed for some strange reason. (Although it is present in the .deb file.)

EDIT 2:

Okay, with some trickery-hackery with Debian packaging, I was able to solve this issue.
In the next release, it will be definitely fixed!

And big thank you to Dirty Harry for finding the bug!