
Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. The chosen color will be the default background in all the new notes, the next time you add them.Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.

Now click that note and choose Window > Use as Default in the menu bar at the top. To do so, add a new note and change its color to the one you want to keep as default. You can also change the default color theme of stickies from yellow to some other color. TIP: To make a note semi-transparent, click the note and select Window > Translucent in the menu bar.Ĭhange the default color of sticky notes on a Mac Similarly, you can select other notes one by one and change their colors accordingly.

The color of the chosen note will instantly change to the color of your choice.


Choosing a different color for notes makes it easier to differentiate between multiple stickies. By changing the note color, you can change the background color on stickies as per your liking. Surprisingly, one can even change the color of sticky notes but most Mac users aren’t aware of this. It is also possible to add a picture or PDF to a note, and also make use of the Markup tools. What’s interesting is that users can customize their notes by using different fonts and font sizes. Just like Post-it yellow sticky notes, Stickies on Mac come in really handy. The Stickies notes sit on the desktop and enabling ‘Float on Top’ keeps them in front of all the open windows. The built-in Stickies app on Mac is a simple way to take quick notes of everyday tasks so that you don’t miss them.
