Stickies guides, features and docs
Guides, feature notes, comparisons and docs for Stickies, the Mac menu-bar app that pins sticky notes to the desktop or stashes them at the screen edge.
Guides
All guidesHow to hide Stickies on a Mac
Hide Apple's Stickies without deleting them by collapsing, making notes translucent or quitting, and how Stickies by Coduo hides a note at the screen edge.
How to keep sticky notes on top on a Mac
Keep Apple's Stickies on top with Window > Float on Top, one note at a time, and how pinned notes in Stickies by Coduo float by default.
How to put sticky notes on your Mac desktop
Put a sticky note on the Mac desktop with Apple's Stickies or a Notes widget, why notes vanish when the app closes, and how Stickies by Coduo does it.
Where are Stickies stored on a Mac?
Where Apple's Stickies keeps notes on disk, why they disappear, how to back them up, and where Stickies by Coduo keeps its single file.
Features
All featuresFloating sticky notes on Mac
A pinned sticky in Stickies by Coduo is its own floating window above other apps, on every Space and over full-screen apps. How it works, and its limits.
Menu bar sticky notes: Quick Panel and ⌘⇧N
Stickies by Coduo lives in the Mac menu bar: the Quick Panel writes a new sticky and lists recent ones, and ⌘⇧N makes one from any app.
Sticky notes that hide at the screen edge
Stickies by Coduo stashes each unpinned sticky as a 12 × 84 pt sliver at the right screen edge. Hover to peek, click to open. Sizes and timing from the code.
Comparisons
All comparisonsApple's Stickies alternative: Stickies by Coduo
Apple's Stickies is free and rich, but notes show only while it is open and Apple documents no sync. How Stickies by Coduo differs, and when to keep Apple's.
Microsoft Sticky Notes on Mac: is there an app?
Microsoft lists no Mac app for Sticky Notes. How to reach your notes from a Mac through the web, and what native Mac sticky-notes apps do instead.
Quick Note vs sticky note on Mac
Apple's Quick Note reopens one Notes note from Fn-Q or a hot corner. How it differs from a sticky note, how to turn it off, and when Stickies by Coduo fits.
SideNotes alternative for Mac: Stickies by Coduo
SideNotes is one always-on-top panel at the screen edge; Stickies by Coduo stashes each note as its own sliver. What each does better, and who fits which.