Stickies

Stickies is an application that displays computerized "sticky notes" that you can use to place reminders on your screen.

To launch Stickies

Double-click the Stickies icon in the Applications folder (Figure 1).

Or

1.	Click the Stickies icon in the Applications folder (Figure 1) to select it.
2.	Choose File > Open, or press .

The default Stickies windows appear (Figure 190).

Figure 190. The default windows that appear when you first launch Stickies tell you a little about the program.

Tips

• Read the text in the default Stickies windows (Figure 190) to learn more about Stickies.

• Sticky notes remain on the desktop until you quit Stickies.

• When you quit Stickies, all notes are automatically saved to disk and will reappear the next time you launch Stickies.

To create a sticky note

1.	Choose File > New Note (Figure 191) or press to display a blank new note (Figure 192). Figure 191. Stickies' File menu. Figure 192. Here's a blank new sticky note…
2.	Type the text that you want to include in the note (Figure 193). Figure 193. …and here's the same note with a reminder typed in.

Tip

• You can use options under the Color and Font menus (Figures 194 and 195) to change the appearance of notes or note text. Common text formatting options are covered in Chapters 9 and 11.

  Figure 194 & 195. Use the Color (left) and Font (right) menus to change the appearance of notes.

  

  

  
  

To print sticky notes

1.	To print just one sticky note, click it to activate it and then choose File > Print Active Note (Figure 191) or press . or To print all sticky notes, choose File > Print All Notes (Figure 191).
2.	Use the Print dialog that appears to set options for printing and click the Print button (Figure 196). Figure 196. The Print dialog.

Tip

• Chapter 12 covers the Print dialog and printing.

To close a sticky note

1.

Click the close box for the sticky note you want to close. or Activate the sticky note you want to close and choose File > Close (Figure 191) or press .

2.

A Close dialog like the one in Figure 197 may appear. Don't Save closes the note without saving its contents. Cancel leaves the note open. Save displays the Export dialog (Figure 198), which you can use to save the note as plain or formatted text in a file on disk. Enter a name and select a disk location for the note's contents, then choose a file format and click Save. Figure 198. Use the Export dialog to save a note as plain or formatted text in a file on disk. Figure 197. The Close dialog asks if you want to save note contents.

Tip

• Once a sticky note has been saved to disk, it can be opened and edited with TextEdit or any other program capable of opening text files.