When I asked a lot of people in Club MacMost recently about Stickies some of them said they hadn't thought about or used them in years and other people said they have been using them and still use them and it's an important part of their work on their Mac.Sticky Notes are digital Post-its that help in making quick notes. As I mentioned before I haven't used Stickies, or even thought about Stickies, in years. For a lot of us there's really no use for Stickies as Notes and Reminders completely take the place. So one person's use of Stickies is completely different than another person's. Now the thing about Stickies, like a lot of other tools, is it's highly customizable for whatever it is you want to do. Just little things that aren't as important, maybe, as Notes and Reminders but it's helpful to have them visible on the screen and you can do that in Stickies. You may have a little list of the extensions of the people you need to call on a regular basis. You've got a in-house phone so it really doesn't help to have the phone numbers in Contacts very much because you're not calling from your computer, you're calling from the in-house phone system. Maybe if you're at work you've got different phone extensions. This isn't something you need on your iPhone but you may just want to create a little sticky, have that available, maybe if you always have Stickies running it's always off there in a corner and it can just remind you of those different things. You know send it to somebody, put it in some shared directory, a few other things you need to as name it a certain way. 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. 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. 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.
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