The Stickies app for macOS gives you Sticky Notes for your desktop, turning your Mac into a virtual bulletin board and letting you jot down short bits of text to remember later. The notes are desktop specific, so you can organize them however you want, and they’ll retain their layout and contents even after closing the app.
Getting Started With Stickies
Stickies is an old app, and recent versions of macOS have buried it in the “Other” folder, along with a lot of other utilities. You can launch it from here, or by searching for it in Spotlight.
Immediately you’ll be presented with two example notes containing some instructions, and showing off how Stickies will look on your desktop.
You can either edit these notes or close them and make your own by selecting File > New Note (or by hitting Command+N).
Once you make a new note, you can write what you want and use all the formatting you’d use in TextEdit or the Notes app.
