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10.4: Change the Stickies widget's colors
Authored by: renderhead on May 27, '05 03:38:09PM

I personally use the Dashboard stickies as a sort of clipboard when I have two or more strings of text that I'm continually copying and pasting. For example, if I'm writing a script for a skit, I don't want to type "Character 1" and "Character 2" over and over every time one of them speaks (and I don't have specialized software for script writing because I only do it occasionally). To deal with this, I bring up Dashboard and type "Character 1" on one line of a sticky and "Character 2" on the next line. While I'm typing the script, I can leave my cursor where I left the Dashboard sticky. When I need to put "Character 1" into my script, I hit F12, move my mouse very minimally, and triple click on its line on the sticky. I do the same for "Character 2".

I find this preferable to the traditional Stickies program because it keeps the Stickies perpetually "on top" of everything without actually covering anything up. With regular stickies, I either have to let them get covered and then find them again with expose (which doesn't leave them in the exact same position if you open new windows in the meantime), or I use "keep on top", which will inevitably cover up something that I need to click on.



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