My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Storing Notes in the Stickies Dashboard Widget

As an alternative to storing notes in the Stickies program, your Macintosh gives you the option of storing notes in a Stickies widget that appears when you run the Dashboard program. The advantage of using the Stickies widget is that you can pop it up on the screen quickly and then make it disappear again every time you open or close the Dashboard program. However, unlike notes in the Stickies program, the Stickies Dashboard widget can hold only text, not graphics.

Creating a Blank Stickies Widget in Dashboard

Before you can store text in the Stickies Dashboard widget, you must add the Stickies widget to the Dashboard screen by doing this:

1. Press F12 (or click the Dashboard icon on the Dock) to display ...