It’ll be within a folder called “Imported Notes,” organized by color. …and if you click “Export All” on that dialog box, the Notes program will open and AGAIN confirm you want to follow through.Īs that pop-up mentions, your Stickies may look a bit different in their new app, but once you click “Import Notes,” you’ll see your data in the sidebar of that program. Your Mac will then confirm that you know what you’re doing… Just open that program (it lives in your Applications folder), and choose File > Export All to Notes from the menus at the top. I still miss OS X Tiger, you guys.įor Stickies data, exporting is really simple.

But hey, I’ll be a little sad when Apple does finally pull the Stickies plug because I’m sappy.

In fact, Notes can import text files or Evernote data as well if you wanna switch to using it all the time! Neat. I can practically hear the Saved by the Bell theme song when I look at that.Īnyway, Apple still includes Stickies as a part of macOS, but if you use that and would like to move your stuff to the modern Notes app instead, there’s a way to do it. You remember Stickies, right? It’s the app that worked like Notes before we had Notes, but with a cute Post-it interface.Īh, the days of yore.

I ran across someone this week who is still using the Stickies program, and I was surprised and (I’ll admit it) a bit delighted to find a person who remains devoted to that remnant of operating systems gone by.

Sticky notes on macbook air