It is filled to the brim with features, is more robust and offers deep customization. Stickies, developed by Zhorn Software, is just the right alternative to Sticky Notes. While all these are much better, they don’t offer the main functionality of sticky notes i.e. The only thing missing from Stickies are the pin & clip icons! | Shutterstock Today if someone wants an alternative, most people recommend switching over to Evernote, OneNote or Keep. But sadly it hasn’t got any new features or upgrades.
So much so that Microsoft has retained them even in Windows 10.
The application remembers the position and contents of each note for when you launch it again.Sticky notes may look like they belong to the Windows 7 era but they are still a favorite among many users. To close the Stickies application completely, click any note and press 96+Q. Stickies displays a dialog to confirm that you want to close the note click Save to save the contents in a file or click the Don’t Save button to close the note and discard its contents. Or click the Sticky to make it the active note and then click Close. To delete a Sticky, simply click the Close button at the upper-left corner of the Sticky window.
Click the Login Items button and add Stickies to the list by clicking the plus button. To automatically run the Stickies application each time you log on, open the Accounts settings in System Preferences and click your account in the list. Press 98+M to toggle between a miniaturized view (showing only the title bar) and the expanded view. Resize and drag the Sticky window to the desired location. To change the Sticky color, click the Color menu and choose the appropriate hue.ĥ. (No pressing reason they just look cool.)Ĥ. (Optional) Add text formatting, change text font, and change font color from the Font menu.įrom the Note menu, you can also choose to make the Sticky translucent. Just click File and then choose Import Text to display a standard Open dialog.ģ. You can also import the contents of an existing file into a Sticky. Type text in the window or press 96+V to paste the contents of the Clipboard into the window. The text cursor is already idling in the new window.Ģ. Open your Applications folder and run the Stickies application to display the new window that you see in Figure 2-4. You can make a Sticky note from the Services menu in many applications as well.įollow these steps to stick your way to success:ġ.
In topic II, I discuss the Mac OS X Services menu. (And you don’t use up our bark-covered friends of the forest, either.) Just press 98+F while the Stickies menu is active to display the Stickies Find dialog. You can even locate specific text from somewhere in your vast collection of Stickies by using the Find command within the Stickies application.
Sticky windows can include graphics and different fonts and colors. ♦ Today’s Dilbert cartoon from A Sticky can contain data pasted from the Clipboard, or you can simply type directly into the Stickies application window. ♦ A quick note that includes someone’s e-mail address or phone number ♦ Boilerplate (repeated and standard) text that you’re constantly including in your documents, such as your address ♦ Snippets of text that you want to temporarily store while your Macbook is turned off (without launching a behemoth like Word or digging for TextEdit) ♦ Reminders that you don’t want to misplace I use Stickies for anything that a real-world sticky note can handle, including To be technical for a moment, a Sticky is actually nothing more than a special type of application window, but these windows remain on your Desktop as long as the Stickies application is running. Stickies are interesting little beasts - I don’t know their genus or phyla, but they’re certainly handy to have around.