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- [Don] Hi, this is Don McAllister
and welcome to another ScreenCastsOnline weekly tip video.
This week, I'm taking a look at a Mac application
that's been around for ages,
but really not that many people know about it.
The application is called Stickies.
Now, Stickies allows you to place coloured notes
on your Mac desktop.
If I go ahead and open Stickies for the first time,
we have two notes here,
we've got a blue note and a yellow note.
You can change the colour of the notes.
You can resize them.
You'll see as well
that you can actually customise your notes
so you can format the text using different fonts
and font sizes, emphasise your text.
You can even include graphics as well.
If you want to tidy up your notes,
you can double tap on the header
and the body of the notes will disappear.
You can also rearrange your notes.
So if I wanted this one say down here
and have this one here,
if I actually closed Stickies
and then restart it,
the notes retain their position on screen.
Now, if I open a Finder window
so if I do a Command + N,
you'll see that these notes actually hover above.
They are floating panels
so that they obliterate whatever is behind.
Now, you can change that behaviour.
With this yellow note selected,
if I go to Note and switched off as a floating window,
now I'll go across to the Finder,
you can see the note is pushed to the back
whereas this note is still a floating panel
and takes precedence.
Let me go back and change this one
and we'll say have it as a translucent window.
So now you can see through the note.
It's not that translucent to be honest,
but you can see through the note.
You can see the Finder window behind it.
Let me go back and change that though
to a non-translucent window.
I much prefer that.
To create a new note,
just say File New Note or Command + N
and then I've got an option here to put information in.
For instance, I tend to have a sticky note
with some keyboard shortcuts that I'm learning
so that if you do have a problem
in trying to remember keyboard shortcuts,
paste them into a sticky note
and then leave it on the desk as a floating window
and you will always have access to it.
If I just go across to my Notes application,
so here are some that I regularly use
but can't quite get into my brain,
so if I copy those,
we'll pop that down out of the way,
going to my Note,
and then edit this to say keyboard shortcuts
and perhaps have this as bold,
Command + B for bold,
now I've got an easy reference pane
to my common keyboard shortcuts
that's always available to me.
If you want to change the colour of your notes,
you can go to Colour.
So this one is currently yellow.
Let's change it to blue.
Well, we already have a blue one.
Let's go ahead and change it to pink say.
Now, it is possible to arrange your notes.
If we go up to Window, Arrange By,
so you can arrange by colour, by content, by date,
by location on screen.
Let's go with location on screen.
So if I do that, we have the blue, yellow and the red.
Now, you can click on an individual note.
If I double click on the header bar, it will expand.
Double click again or you can use Command + M
to zoom it as well.
So if I zoom that one,
let's move that out of the way,
if I zoom this one, Command + M, I can move that,
and then I can actually zoom this one as well, Command + M.
Now, you have to bear in mind
that these are a collection of notes.
You don't manage them individually.
If I was to close a note, say this one here,
if you want to close it,
Command + W, it will warn you,
if you don't save this note, its contents will be lost.
So you can't close an individual note.
You have to actually close really means delete.
You can save though.
If I click on Save,
it will allow you to save the contents of the note
as either plain text, as rich text format,
or as rich text format with attachments
if you have any images in there.
But I'll go ahead and say Cancel.
I'll just go ahead and delete this one
because I don't really need it anymore so Command + W
and we'll say don't save
so that blue note has now disappeared.