# Stickies blog

> 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

- [How to hide Stickies on a Mac](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/guides/hide-stickies-on-mac.md): 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](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/guides/keep-sticky-notes-on-top-mac.md): 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](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/guides/put-sticky-notes-on-mac-desktop.md): 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?](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/guides/where-are-stickies-stored-mac.md): 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

- [Floating sticky notes on Mac](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/features/pinned-floating-stickies.md): 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](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/features/quick-panel-and-new-sticky-shortcut.md): 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](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/features/stash-to-screen-edge.md): 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

- [Apple's Stickies alternative: Stickies by Coduo](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/compare/apple-stickies.md): 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?](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/compare/microsoft-sticky-notes-mac.md): 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](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/compare/apple-notes-quick-note.md): 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](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/compare/sidenotes.md): 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.

## Docs

- [Stickies by Coduo FAQ](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/docs/faq.md): Stickies by Coduo is not Apple's Stickies. It needs macOS 15 or later, keeps notes in one local file and your private iCloud, and is not released yet.

## Posts

- [Why our notes hide at the screen edge](https://www.coduo.co/stickies/blog/why-notes-hide-at-the-screen-edge.md): How the edge stash in Stickies by Coduo got its sizes and springs: a browser sketch, a native motion study, and the values that shipped.