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Say, for instance, you're a video editor and you have to go through a certain process when you're finished up a video to do certain things with it. So Notes and Reminders are definitely more modern and more capable apps of doing lots of things.īut Stickies are really nice in how they fit on the screen. It's easy to write lists and check things off in Reminders or even create lists in Notes as well.

They can even have alarms and notifications and all. You add something to your Notes on your Mac you can see them on your iPhone, your iPad, your other Mac.

So the great thing is that they sync up across all your Macs and your iOS devices. Well, Notes and Reminders are both part of iCloud. So this all sounds great but what are the advantages and disadvantages to using Stickies over more modern things like say Notes or Reminders. You can set text color by going to Font, and then Show Colors, and setting a color for that. It's really nice to be able to color them up with all sorts of things. Double clicking on the title bar will do the same as clicking here so you can shrink it easily. So you see this one didn't jump to the front. Actually when I select a window in Stickies only that window jumps to the front of whatever I've got going on there.

Add sticky notes to mac desktop windows#

You can see the windows can kind of overlap each other in different ways. So I can turn all that off so it's not floating on top anymore. All you have to do is click the sticky to activate the Stickies app and I can make changes again. I can also make it translucent so you can kind of see through the window a little bit if I want.

You can easily grab a corner here to shrink it down to make it nice and small so it's not in the way. So I can stick it off in the corner and it will always be something on top of things. So now it floats on top so no matter what I do with Safari it's not going to be able to get on top of the sticky note. But I can select this window in Stickies and now I can select to have it put on top. You can see Safari is covering these because they're regular windows. But not only that you can actually bring them to the front permanently. So you can kind of get it a little bit out of the way. In addition to be able to close a sticky you can also click this little button here and it shrinks down to just the title bar. But if I open it again, then they all come back and they remember their positions. Now, they are only there as long as Stickies is running. These things float around on your screen. You can even import text into it if you want.

Add sticky notes to mac desktop full#

You've got a full set of editing tools so it's kind of like a little text editor. So you can have all different types of notes up there. So you can do fonts and change the color of the entire note. You can create little lists, you can put procedures you need to do everyday. But you can create your own by going into File, New note, and you get this little window with a little title bar there that you can move around. It gives you a couple samples to start off. Well, it simply simulates little sticky notes, or post it notes, that are on your desktop. It's an app that's on your Mac called Stickies. To be honest I completely forgot that they were even part of Mac OS. Video Transcript: So here's a subject I haven't talked about in a long time.