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Sticky Notes has been a part of the Windows operating system for years. It’s a useful utility, lets you pin quick thoughts and notes on the desktop. In 2018, Microsoft delivered the much-needed makeover to Sticky Notes with sync capabilities, file attachment, and a complete redesign. At the same time, the company made sure the users get to access Sticky Notes on rival OS, including Android, iOS, and Mac.
App developer Ginger Labs recently launched a companion app for the Mac ($10; OS X 10.9 or later), where you can sync your notes via iCloud across devices. The Notes app for Mac is a potent tool because it lets users jot things down quickly. When an idea for a project comes to you all of a sudden or you come across an interesting topic for an article, all you have to do is open the Mac notepad and create a note so you can go back to it later.
The added syncing function is useless if you can’t access or create Sticky Notes on Android, iOS, or web. To counter the problem, Microsoft has making Sticky Notes available on iOS and Android via other apps and on Mac using the Outlook platform. The company is also leveraging the Microsoft Launcher app on Android for deep integration of Stick Notes.
In this post, we are going to talk about how to access Sticky Notes on Mac, iOS, and Android. It’s not as straight forward as downloading the app from the App Store or the Play Store. Let’s get started.
Use Sticky Notes on Mac
From Outlook App
Apple does provide a capable alternative called Stickies on the macOS. But it’s basic, doesn’t have syncing and it’s only available on the Mac. There is no way to access them on other platforms. Enter Sticky Notes.
There are two ways to use Sticky Notes on the Mac. Microsoft is using the Outlook app for Sticky Notes integration. Follow the steps below.
Step 1: Open the Mac App Store and download the Outlook Email app.
Step 2: Open Outlook Mail and sign in using the Microsoft account credentials.
Step 3: After the successful login, move to the bottom menu bar.
Step 4: Here, you will see the mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes.
Step 5: Tap on the notes icon and it will open the sticky notes menu in the app.
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Click on the notes to view or edit them. To create a new note, go to File > New Note or use the ‘Command + N’ keyboard shortcut to compose a note. Add a title and content to it and hit Command + S shortcut to save the note. You can view and arrange the notes via dates.
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Read MoreUse Outlook Web
In recent years, Microsoft has radically improved the Outlook web functionalities. From a single place, you can access the major Microsoft services such as Mail, Calendar, To-Do, Contacts, Skype, and more.
As it’s dependable on the web, the trick lets you access Sticky Notes on Chrome OS and Linux too. Follow the steps below to access Sticky Notes on the Outlook web.
Step 1: Open any web browser and navigate to Outlook.com.
Step 2: Login using Microsoft account credentials and it will take you to the default mail page.
Step 3: From the Outlook Mail, go to Folders > Notes.
Step 4: Here, you will see the Sticky Notes list.
Step 5: Tap on the notes to add content, change color, or even delete it.
Step 6: To create a new note, navigate to the upper left corner and select ‘New Note’ option.
Using Sticky Notes from the Outlook web is a much better experience than the standard Outlook app from the Mac Store.
Use Sticky Notes on iPhone
Here is where it gets confusing. Unlike on desktop, you can’t access Sticky Notes from the Outlook app on the iPhone. Instead, the company has integrated Sticky Notes with the OneNote app for the mobile.
Step 1: Download the OneNote app from the App Store.
Step 2: Sign in using Microsoft account and synchronize the notebooks.
Step 3: Here, you will see the separate Notes section at the bottom.
Step 4: Select it and here you will see all the Sticky Notes in it.
Users can create new notes, change color, format the notes using the default editing options, and more.
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There are two ways to use Sticky Notes on the Android operating system. You can either use the OneNote app or opt for the Microsoft Launcher to access Sticky Notes on Android. Speaking of Microsoft Launcher, follow the steps below.
Step 1: Open the Play Store and download the Microsoft Launcher app.
Step 2: Set the launcher as the default on Android from the device settings.
Step 3: Swipe left on the Microsoft Launcher and sign in using the Microsoft account credentials.
Step 4: Go to the Glance tab, and here you will see the Notes widget in the menu.
The notes widget will synchronize the notes from the Sticky Notes app. You can create and edit the existing notes from the same widget.
Alternatively, you can use the OneNote Android app to get Sticky Notes on the Android OS. The steps for it are identical to its iOS counterpart.
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As you can see from the steps above, a user can access Sticky Notes on all the platforms, including Mac, Android, iOS, and web. It’s useful for those living in a cross-platform ecosystem. I mostly use it to jot down quick thoughts on my iPhone and Windows laptop. What about you? Sound off in the comments section below.
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Keep It is the successor to Together, can import Together libraries, and all Together 3 users can get a discount to upgrade to Keep It. See Information for Together Users below.
Screenshots
Notes, Links and Everything Else
Make Notes
Create notes with built-in styles that look good and read well on all your devices. Notes can contain checklists, bulleted and numbered lists, links, dividers, images and other attachments.
Save Web Links
Save web links to Keep It, view them in the app, open them in your browser, or save them as PDFs or web archives for offline reading.
Add Anything
Any kind of file can be created from stationery, added to Keep It or saved to its folders, and then opened for editing in other applications. With iCloud, changes are automatically made available across all your Macs and iOS devices.
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Preview and Edit
Keep It generates thumbnails and summaries for most files, can edit its own notes, rich text, plain text and Markdown files, add highlights and notes PDFs, and show images, web pages and most other documents. Any item can be encrypted with a password.
iCloud
Everywhere
Keep It can store everything in iCloud and make it available across all your Macs, and your iPad and iPhone too, with Keep It for iPad and iPhone.
Share Folders and Items
Keep it can share top-level folders and individual items with other Keep It users via iCloud. Participants will see all changes automatically.
Organize
Folders
Folders let you organize items and bundles hierarchically, when needed. Select a folder to see everything it contains, double-click to focus the sidebar on that folder.
Bundles
When you need to gather things into one place, make a bundle. Items can be in more than one bundle at a time, and when you remove the bundle, everything else stays where it was.
Labels
Use labels to color-code items for quick visual recognition. Labels are listed in the sidebar so you can quickly see everything with a particular label.
More Lists
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Use the Recents list to see things you’ve added or viewed lately, with the latest shown at the top. Favorites provide quick access. Deleted Items are automatically removed after 30 days.
Search and Filter
Search
Keep It can search the content of most files, and can recognize text in scanned PDFs and images. While searching, suggestions appear as you type, allowing you to narrow down results to exactly what you need. Save searches for later reuse.
Tag Filter
Keep It’s Tag Filter makes finding things by tags easy, and works with search and the selected list. Choose a tag to see all the tagged items and any other relevant tags; choose another tag to drill down further.
Works with Your Mac
Real Files
Keep It stores everything you add as files, folders and tags in the Finder that mirror what you see in the app, rather than stuff everything into a database. You can even save new files to these folders to automatically add them.
True Integration
This approach lets Keep It work with the system and all your existing apps, files can be searched with Spotlight, backed up with Time Machine, and opened in any suitable app for editing. Tasks in Keep It can be automated with AppleScript and Automator actions.
Where You Need It
Compact Mode
In compact mode, Keep It for Mac becomes a single column, ideal for using alongside other apps or in split screen.
Works with Other Apps
Pretty much anything can be dragged to Keep It, and you can also add things from a variety of apps with Keep It’s share extension.
Keep It is the successor to Together, and will import your Together libraries. While many things will be familiar, Keep It offers some great new ideas and improvements, including:
View and Edit
- Create notes, stationery and open anything in its own window or tab
- Summaries in the list and enhanced thumbnails, on both Mac and iOS
- Predefined and custom styles for notes
- Insert dividers in notes
- Improved file attachments in notes
- Add highlights and notes to PDF documents, and rotate and remove pages
- Rotate images between landscape and portrait
- Edit Markdown files with syntax coloring and a choice of editor and preview styles.
- See a word count for notes, rich text and plain text documents
- Show margins to constrain the width when editing text items to aid readability
- Automatically rename items created from stationery
- Compact Mode for working alongside other apps as a window or in split view
- Dark mode on macOS Mojave and later
Organize and Manage
- Favorites Bar for quick access to lists
- Folders can show all items in nested folders and bundles
- iCloud sharing for both folders and individual items
- Double-click folders to focus the sidebar on them and the things they contain
- Recents list shows added and edited items across all your Macs and iOS devices
- Selecting multiple items shows options to add them to a bundle, move to a folder, change the label or add tags
- Each list can have its own sort and view settings
- See and search a list of tags in the Info view, and when tagging items in the list
- The sidebar can be hidden and will reappear when you drag to the side of the window
- Deleted items automatically removed after 30 days
- Unfiled list shows anything not in a folder or bundle
Importing
- Share extension can now add text, links, files, photos and movies, and when using it you can add tags, choose locations, and append text to notes. With iCloud, changes will appear on other devices almost instantly
- Bookmarklet can now either import a link or the selected text from a web page
- Import from a scanner, or directly from your iPad or iPhone with Continuity Camera in macOS Mojave
Search and Filter
- Search suggestions for drilling down to exactly what you need
- Text recognition makes scanned PDFs and images searchable, including attachments
- Use keywords when searching, and natural language for dates
- Save searches that work consistently across Macs and iOS
- Tag Filter can filter combinations of tags in the same straightforward way on both Mac and iOS
…but just about everything in Keep It is more refined, works better, faster, and often makes more sense. See Keep It for Together Users for more.
Discounts
Together 3 users can get a half-price discount when moving to Keep It, and free licenses are available for anyone who purchased Together 3 in the 6 months before Keep It was announced.
See the Keep It Support page for information on obtaining these discounts, and how to move from Together to Keep It.