With the Mac App Store open and business booming for Apple developers, it's easy to get into the habit of grabbing a bunch of useful third-party applications to handle your computing needs. While there's nothing wrong with doing this, you may find yourself surprised at. The Stickies notes for Mac OS X has been part of the Apple operating system since 1994, but updated versions of the Stickies notes app has allow for better usability and functionality. Stickers you add to the frame exist as objects which you can resize and move around.
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If I need to make a sticky on the fly I usually type some text somewhere and hit cmd + shift + y
But this is helpful if there's nowhere to type some text.
⇧⌘Y is used to create a sticky note in Stickies.app. Pip for mac app. This hint works with Dashboard's Stickies widget, which has noting to do with Stickies.app (unfortunately).
Stickies App For Mac
How to delete apps on my mac. I , too, use the CMD-SHIFT-y shortcut, and the Stickies app, because I find it suits my needs better. I'm grateful for the Stickies app and for that keyboard shortcut. Very useful; thanks Apple!
My Stickies app loads at login, so it more closely approaches what I view as the most important function of Stickies: they are there on my screen when I start my work day. I also occasionally save a Stickies note, or print it. For me, the Stickies widget is no substitute. But I'm still glad you share this hint with us!
Works over here. Very nice thanks.
Alternatively, if you want to make a sticky from previously copied text, you could simply remove (or comment) the first part: This way, you copy some text, invoke the script and your good. Thanks for sharing!
..or to be 'sticky-safe', you could change it to something like:
Note that since 10.5 all AppleScript string handling is in Unicode and 'string' and 'Unicode text' are both synonyms for 'text'.
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Also, if you want to make sticky widgets without affecting the contents of the clipboard, use this version instead:
For Quicksilver users here is a version that works directly with text entered into Quicksilver's first pane (thus eliminating the need for a dialog box):
Finally, for people who think in the opposite order (open a Sticky, then type the text), but are tired of how much work it takes to create a new sticky note in Dashboard, I suggest trying New Sticky. (Yeah, I made it, but its freeware, so I feel no shame in plugging for it!)
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If you use QuicKeys to trigger the script, add 'activate' as a new line at the beginning of the script to avoid a possible scope clash.
If you don't mind an extra step, you can wrap the set clipboard line in this 'if' statement to provide the choice of typing or using the clipboard. Don't put too much text on the clipboard, of course. if button returned of (display dialog 'Type new sticky or use current clipboard contents?' buttons {'Type', 'Use clipboard', 'Cancel'} default button 1) is 'Type' then
I just tried something: Navigate to /Library/Widgets. Drag the Stickies widget to the right side of the Dock. Click it for a new Dashboard Sticky! Looks like you can press tab twice to get the focus to it to start typing or paste. You probably want to move the note away from the default place at the center to not be under the next new sticky.
Backup Stickies Macfollowing up on u2mr2os2's post, if you're willing to do a little editing you can make this work. do the following:
Stickies App Macadd this code snippet: it will look like this, when you're done: Make sure the changes you make in the files are saved, and (may or may not be necessary, but can't hurt) kill the dock and let it restart. now every time you double-click on the StickiesPlus icon it will make a new sticky in dashboard with the contents of the clipboard. you could even make an applescript like so: You can run that script from the script menu (or quicksilver, or etc) to automatically copy the selection in the foreground app and load it into a dashboard sticky. I think it will only work for text - possible limitation of pbpaste - but I haven't really tested it much.Comments are closed.
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