19 Nov
Export text from all notes in Stickies
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld.com
Despite the plethora of apps out there to help me track to-do items, I find I still use Stickies quite often—abiding, I use iCal for tracking my actual to-do items, but I find to one’s mind Stickies as far as concerns just jotting down quick ideas as they fall out during the day. While Stickies has improved over the years, there’s still one fairly major problem with the program: It’s not smooth to get your text out of Stickies. There’s a File -> Export Text menu item, but that disposition only send out the text from one Sticky at a time. What granting that you’ve got 30 or 40 notes, and you’d like to dispose the body out of all of them?
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While there’s no show “send out total” feature in Stickies, there is a fairly simple workaround. First, prefer File -> Print All Notes. In the Print dialog, click the PDF pop-up menu, then pick Save as PDF. In the new window that appears, note your file and pick a save location (and optionally provide values for Title, Author, etc.), then click Save.
This will create a PDF file containing all your notes. You could leave it like this, if you want, but there’s human being more step if you want the actual text from the Stickies. Using Preview or Reader, open the PDF file you just created. Now select all (Command-A), copy it to the clipboard (Command-C), switch to a blank TextEdit (or your editor of choice) document, and paste (Command-V). Save the resulting toothed, and you’ve got a text version of all your Stickies.
While a real export feature would be nice, as workarounds go, this one’s not too much trouble.
