How To Delete Stickies On Mac?

Stickies is a utility tool for Mac OS X. It is designed to allow users to create notes and leave them on their screen so it will stay visible. It’s not a new concept to provide sticky notes; but in Mac, there are two famous tools provided: Stickies and Post-it. Stickies is a software that comes with the Mac Operating System; so no installation is required. With Post-it, you need to download it via App Store and then install it. Both of them have similar features; but some of them are different as well.

Sticky notes are short notes that people use as a reminder, clippings, etc. Mac offers the Stickies application to create them. However, after the work is done, they are not needed anymore. You wish to delete them but you do not know the effective way to do that. So, here, in this article, we will give you a proper idea about how to delete stickies on Mac.

Deleting Stickies on Mac

1. First, go to the “Finder” menu of your Mac operating system. Access it.
2. Locate the “Stickies” application from the “Applications” menu. Access the application by double-clicking on it.
3. You will find all the sticky notes you created in the application under the “Stickies” section. If you added the sticky notes on the screen you will also get them on your screen.
   
4. If you do not know how to get them on the screen, then select the “Window” option. There you will get the “Float on Top” option. After that, you will get the notes on your screen.
   
5. Now, after getting the sticky notes, locate the one you wish to remove. Select it.
6. There you will see a box on the upper left side of the note. Put the mouse pointer over it and choose the “Delete note” option. The selected sticky note will be removed.
   
7. However, if there are lots of sticky notes on your list, and you wish to clear all of them but you have to do it one by one. For removing them all at once, you may use the “record” option of the “Automator” of Mac.
8. First, open a fresh workflow. Then, select the “Record” option from the upper right side. Then, select the “Stickies” software in the Dock and choose the “Stop” option.
9. Now, again initiate the record option and access the “Stickies” application. There you will see the list of every sticky note you created.
10. Click on the “Command” button and select “W” or you may also pick the “Close note” option from the “File” section.
11. A popup will emerge on the window. Select “Delete note” from it. Then, end the recording.
12. You may speed up the playback too if you wish. Select the black space on the screen and open the options menu and choose “Duplicate”.
    
13. Then, go for the multiple blocks and rerun the procedure. Finally, save and perform the command. When the command will have no more sticky notes left, it will come across an error and end.
14. If you still can not clear the stickies out of your Mac operating system, you may uninstall the “Stickies” application from the Mac.
15. For that, first, locate the application from the “Applications” section. Select it. Then, drag and drop it to the “Trash” application or you may open the options menu by right-clicking on it and choose “Move to trash”. Then, clear the trash.
16. You may also delete the “Stickies” application from the Launchpad if you installed it from the apple store. Access the Launchpad and search for the application. Then, select the “X” from the top left side of the application and it will delete the app. You may also use the uninstaller file to remove it.

So, following these instructions given above, you can delete stickies on Mac quickly.

Summary: Delete Stickies on Mac

• Open the Stickies app from your dock.
• Right-click on each sticky note you want to delete and choose "Delete".
• Deleting notes from a window on a Mac.
• Open the Stickies app.
• Click and drag the "X" button that appears in the upper-left corner of the sticky note you want to remove.
• When you reach a predetermined trash can icon, release the mouse button to delete.