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An AppleScript to export all Stickies as text
Authored by: muzak75 on Feb 07, '06 09:39:08AM

This may be painfully evident, but you can also export all your stickies by saving as a PDF in the Print dialog. Exports the images as well and text is selectable for copy/paste operations. Of course, it's not as easy to export them separately, since it saves either one or all in one PDF, depending on the options you select.

Anyway, it worked for me. I just needed a backup of the info in all of my stickies and got it quickly that way...



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An AppleScript to export all Stickies as text
Authored by: eddy_k on Feb 07, '06 10:26:35AM

I didn't know it was possible to print all notes... And just open the pdf file in Textedit and I am all done!
Nice.



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An AppleScript to export all Stickies as text
Authored by: roncross@cox.net on Feb 07, '06 11:01:31AM

How do you import them back into stickies if you need to use them again?

thx
RLC

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An AppleScript to export all Stickies as text
Authored by: mark hunte on Feb 07, '06 01:08:51PM

use the import menu.

One thing with this is, if your sticky is rich text of rtfd

then it will be stripped to plain text.



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An AppleScript to export all Stickies as text
Authored by: roncross@cox.net on Feb 07, '06 01:40:51PM

I was referring to how you import them back from pdf into stickies? When you do this, you lose some of the formatting. Plus it will not parse out the stickies.

thx
RLC

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An AppleScript to export all Stickies as text
Authored by: muzak75 on Feb 07, '06 04:27:59PM

It's definitely not the best way, but you can select the text from the PDF and copy/paste it into a new note. Haven't really had the need to import them yet...

Anyone else?



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An AppleScript to export all Stickies as text
Authored by: ccgaudette on Feb 07, '06 09:08:09PM

Interesting. Using Mac OS X 10.4.4 here, I can only print to PDF the first 44 notes -- using the "Print All Notes..." function. I have roughly 100 notes, each note is collapsed to just the title bar and sorted by color, and as it turns out sub-sorted by alpha.



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