In Mac OS X, its icon has remained the same from version 10.0 to version 10.15. This feature was then removed with Safari 6.0 in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.īack to Stickies, the amazing thing about this application is that it hasn’t essentially changed for the past 27 years.
After leaving the iChat project, in late 2003 he joined the Safari team and worked on what then became Safari RSS, the RSS/Atom news reader and aggregator built into Apple’s Safari, which debuted in Safari 2.0, released with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. He and his team later worked on expanding iChat’s features, resulting in the release of iChat AV in 2003.
Later, in 2000, he started developing an instant messaging client that became iChat for Mac OS X, that was first introduced with Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. Between 19 he worked on the development of the OpenDoc framework. Between 19 he was part of the team that developed AppleScript he specifically helped to design the Open Scripting Architecture and created the Script Editor. Stickies was originally called Antler Notes, and in the classic Mac OS version of the app, there’s a nice Easter Egg reminding you of its origins.īy the way, during his time at Apple, Alfke contributed to many important features of the Mac operating system.
He developed the application in his spare time while working at Apple. The first version of Stickies was written in 1994 by Jens Alfke, and debuted as part of System 7.5 in the same year. For example, if I want a black note, I can have one, but I won't be able to see the "title" of it.Īll in all, love the app and am very grateful to have it at my disposal.As I was reflecting some more about my favourite features of Mac OS X over the 20 years of its history, I realised that I needed to add a very special mention to the list - the Stickies app.Īnd as soon as I thought of Stickies, I remembered that it’s an application that’s even older than Mac OS X. Same thing with photos, I would rather have the photo be in more of a link format than expand the entire photo (or at least the option to change how this works) so that I could store multiple photos in one single note and just click on the one I want.įinally, the fact that I am unable to affect the color of the font when a note is minimized and the first line shows up in the title actually eliminates some of the functinoality of the different color options. I could use the sticky notes to declutter my desktop (which I already use it for in other ways). I would really like to be able to click on the document and have it open. Second, if I drag a word document into a note or paste it in, all I end up with is a useless thumbnail. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice if they would retain their position. I have to rearrange them every time I restart my computer. There're only a couple of things I would love to see addressed or implemented.įirst, when I restart my computer, many, if not all, of the notes I have saved on my desktop get moved and stack on one another. Even being able to change the "names" of the colors in a palette is a huge perk. I love the versatility and the customizable color palettes. I like this app a great deal, and I am extremely satisfied.