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12:01 PM

I heard that Mountain Lion will add the notes application. Does that mean that Apple ise going to get rid of the stickies app?

Daniel Lawson

12:29 PM

I hope not!

I actually use Stickies a fair bit. But the two seem complementary, not substitutes. I'd use them for different things.

If they eliminate Stickies, I'd have to go back to putting Post-it® notes on my screen.

:-)

gentmatt

1:05 PM

@DanielLawson Yeah, I really need to be able to see different stickies at the same time.

bmike

@gentmatt Do you both use the Shift-Command-Y shortcut to make a note from whatever text is currently selected?

gentmatt

No.

But that's pretty cool. Thanks!

bmike

That's one that a lot of people don't know - so I figured I'd throw it out there in case.

I've moved away from stickies, but they were very powerful in my last job for storing a ton of information for rapid retrieval.

gentmatt

I shall assign a gesture to this mighty shortcut right now in BetterTouchTool.

bmike

1:20 PM

@DanielLawson I've seem people use both!

Daniel Lawson

1:34 PM

@bmike All the time

In fact, sometimes I do that just to launch the stickies app (then delete the resulting note)

bmike

@DanielLawson awesome - hotkey muscle memory - I bet you don't even have to think about deleting the null note.

Daniel Lawson

right. ⌘⇧Y, then ⌘W, then ⌘D... without thinking. Three key combinations, but it's a reflex.

stuffe

1:58 PM

@DanielLawson Way late, the start of EP2 of TS3 was embarrassing, joking about getting Paul Thurrot on as co-host etc, made me cringe, was schoolboy levels of immaturity

gentmatt

2:41 PM

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