How to Get Sticky Notes on a Mac to Create Reminders

You can get sticky notes on your Mac through the Stickies application, and use it to write notes that can serve as reminders on your desktop.
You can edit and update sticky notes as you need, including editing their appearance, size, and content.
When you want to get rid of a sticky note, you can delete it, or you can save the content as a .txt file.
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Sticky notes, those little slips of yellow paper with adhesive you leave all around your house as reminders, are old technology.

Making sticky notes an early, built-in application of Mac computers, Apple found a way to bring these notes to the modern era, by featuring them as a great way to add reminders to your desktop.

You can customize and resize sticky notes quickly and easily too.

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How to get sticky notes on a Mac

1. Open "Finder" from your dock or the top menu bar on your Mac.

2. Click on "Applications" in the menu on the left hand side.

3. Scroll down and click on "Stickies" (your applications should be in alphabetical order).

Select "Stickies" from the Applications list. Isabella Paoletto/Business Insider

4. If it's your first time using Stickies on your device, two Sticky notes explaining how the app works will open.

5. Click on the words on the note and start typing. You can format it like a normal note, with a title line and content below that, or however you choose to.

How to edit sticky notes on a Mac

To increase or decrease the note size, grab the lower left or right corner and drag in or out to the desired size. It will still stay this size on your desktop.

If you want to remove the note from your desktop, click on the small white square in the upper-left corner of the note.

Click the small square to close your note. Ryan Ariano/Business Insider

A pop-up window will open asking if you'd like to continue with deleting the note or save it as a text document. Click "Delete Note" to delete it, "Save…" to save it somewhere on your computer, or "Cancel" if you've changed your mind.

Choose what you'd like to do with your note. Ryan Ariano/Business Insider

To format your note, highlight the words you want to format and right click. You can also click on a word while holding the "control" key on your keyboard to open the formatting options.

From the pop-up menu select "Font" to change the font type, weight, and color.

Select "Show Fonts" to change the format of your text. Isabella Paoletto/Business Insider

You can also select "Transformations" under the "Edit" tab to make all text upper-case or lower-case, or choose from various other formatting options.

From the menu, choose how you'd like to format your note. Isabella Paoletto/Business Insider

To change the color of the note itself to one of six colors, use the "Color" tab from the top menu.

Change the color of your note with the "Color" tab. Ryan Ariano/Business Insider

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Update: 2024-06-30

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