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Optional, custom synchronization via iCloud. Synchronization via Evernote. It is easy to manage and customise, sync with Evernote and iCloud for backup. Sticky Notes makes you more productive.

Make a note semi-transparent: Choose Window > Translucent.Transform two USB-C ports on the MacBook Pro into 7. Keep a note in front of other windows: Choose Window > Float on Top. Group multiple notes: Choose Window > Arrange By, then choose an option. Saving Mac Stickies to a file - IntroIn the Stickies app on your Mac, do any of the following: Arrange a note manually: Click the top of a note and drag the note where you want it.

Read on if you want to learn more about the Mac Stickies application, including the location of the Mac Stickies database file (the location where the Mac Stickies are saved). You can actually save a Mac sticky note to a file, but this is a one-way trip: After you save the sticky note to a file, the Mac Stickies application doesn't bother to read from it again.The rest of this article contains the details of what I just went through. This 'sync Mac Stickies' quest led me to discover several things, including where Mac Stickies are saved by default, and how you can save them somewhere else.In short, this experiment was a disaster, and you can't really save Mac Stickies anywhere other than the default database where Apple intends them to be stored. What I was wondering was if I could save my Mac Stickies to a particular file or directory so I could sync my Mac Stickies across several computers using Dropbox.

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You can write a Mac sticky note to a file, but after that the Stickies application happily ignores the file.Here's how to save a Mac sticky note to a file: Saving Mac Stickies to a fileAs mentioned at the beginning of this article, you can save each Mac Sticky note to an individual file, but this process is cumbersome, and it's also a one-way trip. This database (using the term loosely) is a file named StickiesDatabase, so on my Mac, where my home directory is named /Users/Al, my Mac Stickies database file can be found in this directory:If all you wanted to know was where your Mac Stickies are saved, or the Mac Stickies file location, that's the answer to those questions. Saving Mac Stickies - The StickiesDatabase file locationThe way this magic works is that your Mac Stickies are saved to a 'database' in the Library directory of your home folder. Just create your Mac Stickies, and when you quit the Stickies application and then re-open it, your Stickies magically reappear as they were before.

When you save the sticky note, the note will be closed, because that's how we got to this 'Save Stickies' process. Save the sticky note to a file anywhere on your filesystem you want to save it. The Stickies application will ask if you want to discard your note, or save it.

You write the output to a file, and you can later import the data back into the Stickies application, but you can't easily keep the file in sync with your sticky note. They weren't saved to your file, they were saved to the Stickies database.Summary: You can save a Mac Stickies note to a file, but it's a one-way street. In short, if you (a) import your file, (b) modify your sticky note, (c) quit the Stickies application, and (d) look at your text file, it is not updated.However, if you re-open the Stickies application, you'll see that your changes to the note were indeed saved. To re-open the sticky note, in the Stickies application, click File, then 'Import Text', and then navigate to your file location and re-open it.As you might guess from that process, including the use of the term 'import', the Stickies application forgets about your file immediately after the import.

They are usually just modified.I could go into the gory details, but in short, because this Stickies file is deleted and then recreated, there's no way to sync it through Dropbox. No database I know is deleted and then recreated like that. Not only does saving a sticky note to a file not work as you'd expect, the Mac Stickies 'database' file can only very loosely be referred to as a database.I say this because as I just learned, the Mac Stickies application deletes this file and then re-creates it whenever you quit the Stickies application.

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