After decades as a Windows PC guy, I bought my first Mac (an M2 MackBook Air) a few weeks ago. Just learned about Stickies from this video. Thanks, Gary.
Oh gosh. You just literally saved me a few bucks! I ALMOST bought another sticky just because I can't find the strikethrough option. Silly me! So glad I found your RU-vid channel and this video. You're literally a life... no, buck-saver!!! I'd be glad to buy you a coffee. Much love! New sub here by the way.
aaaaa thanks so much! I've been using stickies for the last few semesters in quarantine and I've been looking to customize them even further :) this definitely helped
Wow. What a mountain of info. Guru indeed. Brilliant tips. Sticky Notes and Text Edit probably under-used utilities/apps. Would have wasted time plenty of time looking for Smart Links and Data Connectors. Will definitely keep this video’s link ... in a sticky note.
wow this is so amazing. ive always been wondering how to make checkbox at sticky due to this issue. i hardly use stickies. now i learn not just that but more. thanks
This is an excellent tutorial. You ALWAYS point out so many things that I did not know I could do or tried to do and failed. And I consider myself a power user! Well done and thank you always for your diligence and comprehensive videos.
Much better than Stickies, although it is quite useful, is the amazing and fantastically gorgeous *Qu-s* which becomes part of your desktop when not editing.
I loved this video Gary! I was wondering what else I could do and you showed me so many great things. I took it even further and found out: a) you can actually open the notes in Pages to further edit everything (including resizing images and sketches!). b) you can make links that open directly to Finder folders using file:/folder/dir for example. It doesn't actually open the last one for some reason, but it does highlight it. You can right/ctrl-click the link however, and just choose Open with -> Finder .. and it actually opens that whole folder path (unless for some reason Stickies has no access to it). You can make a list of commonly used folders this way and then they don't have to clutter up your Favorites bar in the Finder. The thing I am still trying to figure out (and you go me in the right direction) ... is having various groups of stickies that I can pull up at will. Like maybe I want stickies to come up when I am running Logic Pro X so that I can see all of the usual shortcuts I use, or maybe a separate group for when I'm using Safari and it gives me a bunch of things associated with that. Combined with something like Automator, BetterTouchTool, or Keyboard Maestro, ... I think it would work great for a really neat workflow.
That would be a good idea, but I can't think of a way to do it. As I use Notes, not Stickies, I can see how it would be done there (one Note per app) but it still wouldn't be automatic.
Love the added functionality. However, the ONLY added feature that Notes does not sport would be the floating feature - Notes may be more sufficient as it's Cloud-based and is available on all your devices, where stickies only live on your Mac PC of choice... thanks for this one - Cheers!
Great tips, Gary. I'll start using many of them. I'm disappointed with Stickies in that I want one to open on my screen at startup and I can't seem to make that happen. I want to remind myself to do something every morning when I boot up. I can get a blank sticky to open, but then I have to use File/Import Text to view my chosen sticky. In reality, the blank sticky is enough of a reminder but I would still prefer to see my chosen one. What am I doing wrong?
You boot up every morning? Don't do that. See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FsrTpEuXEtc.html Also, look into using Reminders for that particular task, not Stickies. This is what Reminders is for.
@@macmost Yeah, I use Reminders for my To Do list. It opens at boot-up, too. I wanted a sticky note so I could close it after completing that task and have it reopen, unchanged, the next boot-up.
What if you put that Stickys folder on your desktop with an alias to it in its original location. They if you have your Desktop backed up to iCloud you can share it across your other macs, provided you set them up the same.
I’ve read thousands of articles with clickbaiting titles like “Things you didn’t know about MacOS” and never are actually hidden features. You totally surprised me.
Gary, how to "stick" the stickies to on a document or project? I am watching your tutorials on keynote, Pixelmator, etc., Like putting the stickies to pages on actual books or the like. Is there a way? thanks~!
No. These exist as part of a Stickies app, not as part of other apps. If you want to put notes on PDFs you can do that inside the Preview app. If you want to put them on ePub books, you can do that in the Books app. Those notes are part of those apps, not another app.
Hi @macmostvideo and thank you for this video. I'm experiencing a weird problem with stickies that I haven't been able to fix even with help from the apple support community. The problem is that I apparently do not have any Stickies folder?! I know that I used to have one but I can't locate it anymore even if I try to find it through a Spotlight search or look for the folder in Finder. It is really annoying because I'm unsure if my stickies are even saved properly. There must be some explanation to this, because the stickies are still there when I restart my computer, I just CANNOT find their location in Finder. Do you have any suggestions? :)
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Oh how I wish that stickies could be attached in the digital world the same way we use them in the physical world ... specifically I would KILL to be able to attach stickies to folders and files. There used to be an app called Ghostnote2 that did this and since they stopped updating NOBODY has filled this gap... I'm assuming its because there must be a conflict to creating an app that will do this as I know this would be popular! Great informative video non-the-less!!! ★★★★★
No, sorry, I can't think of an easy way to do that other than connecting the drive to another Mac. But that depends on the security of the drive whether you can even read it.
i am desperately trying to create a custom color sticky note, which i cannot seem to figure out... for example, not one of the ones they provide in the drop down menu but like a creamsicle orange. is it even possible?
Hey do you know anything about how to get back your stickies after exporting them? I exported a stickies that had images to a TextEditor (not knowing what it was). Now that stickie is gone and the pictures are not saved in the file. Do you have any way I can maybe convert the TextEditor file back to stickies? Thanks any help would be appreciated.
This is really useful. I'm curious about archiving stickies. If I move a file out of the folder and rename it to something more descriptive, but then decide that I want it to be back in stickies, does the changed file name create any problems? It seems to work okay, but I'm wondering if there's anything about which I should be wary. Thanks so much.
Not sure as I don't know the inner workings of the app. I suppose if it doesn't work in the future you can still open it in TextEdit and copy the contents, so that makes it pretty safe.
Notes doesn't allow you to place "stickies" at different positions on the screen and float above other windows. That's why people like Stickies. You only see notes in the Notes app, but they do sync. So people use both, but for different things,.
OK - I know how to justify right and how to justify left in stickies but how do you justify CENTER??? (other than creating it in textedit and doing a copy/paste)
Love yr videos. But apple needs to update this app. Should be able to drag a regular note on to the desktop and have it turn into a sticky note along with being able to drag notes into freeform and vice versa since they're all about their ecosystem they should improve their ecosystem. I write this just in case the developer is reading or so anybody else can repeat it somewhere they can read.
Is there any way to keep the paragraphs when copying and pasting from Stickies? I've got a sticky that has 4 paragraphs I was gonna use for copying and pasting as a way to save time, but every time I paste it anywhere it shows up without the place where I hit enter.
@@macmost It works when I paste it from another tab, I was previously pasting from a Google Keep tab. First I pasted it into the sticky note and it worked fine and brought the spaces over, but copying from the sticky and pasting in safari removes the returns. I’ve also tried adding and extra return, which didn’t help. At that point I came here because your content is always really helpful 😇! And thanks for such a quick reply.
Maybe you will be able to help with this: A have a sticky and all three icons on it (close, zoom & collapse) are BLACK/blacked-out. Therefore I can't delete it's driving me crazy. Please help!
Just to make sure I am understanding this correctly. When you highlight a word, do it ONLY when the stickie note is "finished" and not to be edited any further? Every time I highlight a word ( from Text Edit )and try to continue with the note the HL effect follows the new characters. Continuing typing, the HL effect follows each letter, hit return, then that line is also highlighted, etc. So is the only to use HL, finish the note, Copy, Paste, then opt. cmd C and V to HL another word(s)?
my problem with stickies is…they don’t STICK. i want them to stay on the desktop and never go above any other program even if i tab to them. i wish that was possible.
How come stickies looks so incredibly ugly - Apple prides itself on delivering well designed, good looking hardware and software products, yet stickies looks like something that would exist in Windows 3.11. What happened to the stickies app that used to exist in e.g. Snow Leopard..?
Stickes is actually that old, well almost. They are meant to look like actual sticky notes (AKA "post-its"). It is the same app from Snow Leopard and even way before that.
OMG. Why use this program? WAAAY too much depth and detail! It would be better to just use a word processor for all "the tricks"...A program like Stickies should be quick and easy to use. However that is not the case for this dinosaur of a OS utility. It should be dumped or improved. I want something like a REAL sticky notes app..like say, Windows Sticky Notes by Microsoft...It is a part of One Note which I now use exclusively with all my devices: Windows, Mac OS and iPhone.
