Immediately create a new Stickies note with Shift-Command-Y
Jan 18, 2010 - 9 Comments
You can instantly create a Stickies note from anywhere in Mac OS X by highlighting the text or image and hitting the Command+Shift+Y keys. In the screenshot example, I pulled a text snippet from Wikipedia into a new Stickies note instantly by using the key combo. I use this all the time when researching and gathering information for projects, yet another Mac feature that I can’t live without!
doesn’t seem to work in PPC MacOS 10.5 (leopard)
http://osxdaily.com/2010/01/07/instantly-create-a-stickies-note/
awesome. Always passively wondered if there was a way to do this. Thanks.
it doesn’t work in SnowLeopard, either..
this def works in 10.5 and 10.6 i use it all the time for creating a multi tiered clipboard while researching. if you are having trouble, try alternate commands for your keyboard layout, like command+option
Doesn’t work for me either – seems to depend on the application.
Chromium, Thunderbird – No.
NetNewsWire – Yes
Adium – No
So, spotty at best.
Thanks, this is a great tip. I find myself using this to make snippets in Firefox all the time.
Just one problem though, that key combination always gives me two duplicate stickies. Any ideas?
I also get two duplicate stickies with the key combination. Anyone else? Any suggestions?
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