How to Create a New Sticky Note on Mac

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This wikiHow teaches you how to create and manage virtual sticky notes on your Mac. Just like the sticky-backed Post It notes you can attach to your desk or monitor, the Stickies app can help you remember bits of information like phone numbers, appointments, and URLs.

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   Open Finder . It's the two-toned smiley face icon on the Dock.

2. 2

   Click the Applications folder. It's in the left panel.

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3. 3

   Double-click Stickies . It's in the right panel. This opens the Stickies app.

4. 4

   Drag Stickies to your Dock (optional). If you think you'll be using the Stickies app a lot, it'll be helpful to add its icon to your Dock. When the icon is on your Dock, you can quickly open Stickies by clicking it rather than accessing it through Finder.

   • This should create a new note automatically. If you don't see a new note, or you just want to create another note, read on.

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   Click the File menu. It's at the top-left corner of the screen.

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   Click New note on the menu. This creates a blank sticky note.

   • You can also create a new sticky note by pressing Cmd + N on the keyboard.
   • You can have multiple stickies open at once.
   • To move a sticky, click and drag it from the horizontal bar at the top of the note.

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   Change the color of the note. You can make your sticky note yellow, blue, green, gray, pink, or purple. Here's how:

   • Click an existing note or create a new one.
   • Click the Color menu at the top of the screen.
   • Select a color for your note.
   • If you want to make the note more see-through, click the Window menu at the top of the screen and select Translucent.

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   Use a different font in your sticky note. You can change the font used on your sticky note to any of the regular Mac fonts. You can also make text bold, italic, change its size, and more. Here's how:

   • To change text you've already typed into a sticky note, highlight it first.
   • Click the Font menu at the top of the screen.
   • To select a different font, click Show Fonts and make your selection.
   • Click Bigger to make text bigger, and Smaller to make text smaller.
   • Use the Kerning menu to determine how close together the letters are.
   • Use the Ligatures menu to determine whether to display special combined characters in fonts that support this feature.
   • The Baseline menu contains options for using Subscript or Superscript.^[1]

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   Make a sticky note float on top of other windows. If you want a certain sticky note to stay visible on the screen when you're using other apps (including those that are full-screen), you can make the sticky "float":

   • Click an existing note or create a new one.
   • Click the Window menu at the top of the screen.
   • Click Floating Window.

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   Collapse a note. You can use the Collapse feature to "roll up" your sticky note when you don't need it to be visible:

   • Click the sticky note you want to collapse.
   • Double-click the horizontal bar that runs along the top of the window to collapse it.^[2] Only the bar will be visible.
   • Double-click the bar again to expand the sticky note.
   • You can also press Cmd + M to quickly collapse and reactivate notes.

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   Create a list in your sticky note. You can create a bulleted list in a sticky note:

   • Click the place in your note where you'd like the list to begin.
   • Press the Option + Tab keys at the same time.
   • Type the first item in your list and press Return.
   • Continue typing list items.
   • To add another level to your list, click the beginning of a line and press the Tab key. To go up a level, press Shift + Tab.
   • When you're finished with your list, press Return twice to end it.

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   Delete a sticky note. If you don't need a note anymore, you can delete it:

   • Click the note you want to delete.
   • Click the box at the top-left corner of the note.
   • Click Delete note.

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Add New Question

• Question

  How do I get more than two stickies?

  

  Under "File" in your tool bar at the top of the screen, select "New Note" and another sticky will show up.

• Question

  I can type the Sticky Note with no problem, but how do I get it to go to the Desktop?

  

  You have to have Stickies open for it to stay on your desktop. If you quit it you won't be able to see it but your work/info will be saved and still be there when re-opened.

• Question

  How do I get rid of a sticky note?

  

  Close the sticky window. You'll be asked if you want to save the note, and you can just select "Don't Save."

• Question

  How do I get back to some older stickies?

  

  On Mac: Open stickie note app. Click 'File'. Click 'Import Text'. Find the 'text file' with name you saved your sticky under. Open, and the stickie note will appear on your desktop.

• Question

  How do I get the same stickies to appear on every single desktop?

  

  Hold down the stickies app, then it should come up with the options "quit", "hide", "show window", or one called "options". Click on the "options" button; it will say either "all desktops", "this desktop" and "none". Click on "all desktops" and it will appear across however many desktops you have.

• Question

  How can I make a sticky note go to the back?

  

  Just click on the one you want to see and it will move in front of all the others. It should work on both Mac and Windows systems.

• Question

  How do I make Stickies open automatically?

  

  Open Stickies from the Apps menu in Finder or from Launch. When opened, it will show on the dock. Right click on the dock icon, and a drop down menu will show. From the drop down menu, click on Options and select Open at Login.

• Question

  How do I add stickies to my dashboard?

  

  At the bottom left in dashboard there should be a plus and minus sign. Hit the plus sign and "Stickies" should be one of the options that appear.

• Question

  My Stickies are yellow and in tiny print. How do I keep the same, different style on my Stickies every time?

  

  Chen-Shin L

  Community Answer

  On the top there should be a color option, click on the color you want. You can click on the top where you found color click the font, and there should be a smaller/bigger button. That's so you can change the font size.

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• You can add images and other files to your sticky notes. Just drag a file from Finder into the note to add it.

• Hover the mouse cursor over a note to see information such as its creation date and the time it was last edited.

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1. Open Finder.
2. Click the Applications folder.
3. Double-click the Stickies app.
4. Go to File > New to create a new note.
5. Use the Color menu to change the note color.
6. Use the Font menu to change the text style.

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