Help

Everything about using Stickytray, on one page.

Getting started

1. Open the disk image and drag Stickytray to your Applications folder.
2. Open Stickytray. Enter the license key from your purchase email and click Activate Stickytray.
3. Your first note appears. Drag its top edge to move it, and click inside to type.

Stickytray lives in the menu bar, not the Dock. Click its icon to see every note, search them, and open Settings.

Shortcuts

These work from any app. Change them in Settings › Hotkeys.

Inside a note: double-click the top edge to collapse it to one line. Type - , 1. or [ ] at the start of a line for a list, and **bold** or *italic* for formatting. Press Escape to give the keyboard back to the app underneath.

Screen sharing

Each note is marked “do not share”, and macOS leaves it out when the screen is captured. Notes are hidden from screen sharing in most apps. They are not invisible everywhere, and nothing can make them so.

• Sharing one window or one app sends only that window. Your notes are never part of it, in any meeting app. This is the safest way to share.
• Sharing your whole screen depends on the meeting app and your macOS version. Run the Privacy Check (Settings › Privacy) after every macOS update to see what happens on your Mac.
• Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Webex, OBS and screen recorders capture through macOS, which applies the “do not share” mark. In Meet, sharing “A tab” or “A window” never includes notes.
• Mirroring to a TV, projector or AirPlay, remote desktop tools, capture hardware and cameras pointed at the screen all show notes.

When you need to be certain, press ⌃⌥H before you share. Hidden notes are off the screen entirely.

The “Hide From Screen Sharing” switch in the menu bar list turns this on or off for all notes.

Zoom

Zoom has its own setting for capturing the screen: Settings › Share Screen › Advanced › Screen capture mode. If notes show up when you share your whole screen, choose Advanced capture with window filtering. In “Auto”, Zoom picks the method itself, and results can vary between versions. Try a test meeting before an important call.

Your license

• One license works on 3 Macs.
• Moving to a new Mac: on the old Mac, choose Settings › License › Deactivate This Mac, then enter the key on the new one. Notes on the old Mac stay there, read-only.
• Lost your key? It's in the purchase email from Dodo Payments. Search your mail for “Stickytray”.
• Without a license, notes already on the Mac can still be read, moved and copied, but not edited.
• Deleting and reinstalling: your license is kept in your Mac's keychain and your notes in your Library folder, so a reinstall opens licensed, with every note in place. No key needed.
• New Mac, or an erased one: enter your key again. If it says the key is on too many Macs and the old one is gone, reply to your purchase email and we'll free it.

Updates

Stickytray updates itself. It checks for a new version a few times a day, downloads it in the background, and installs it the next time you've been away from your Mac for 10 minutes, or when you quit it. It reopens on its own with every note where it was. Turn this off, or check right away, in Settings › Updates.

If you opened Stickytray straight from the disk image, it offers to move itself into Applications first. It can't update itself from the disk image.

Sync

Between your Macs

Turn on Settings › Sync › Sync notes between my Macs with iCloud on each Mac signed in to the same Apple Account. Notes go through your private iCloud database; we never see them. If the same note is changed on two Macs at once, the latest edit wins and the other version goes to Recently Deleted, so nothing is lost.

Checklists with Reminders

In a note's ••• menu, choose Sync Checklist with Reminders. Ticking an item in either place updates the other. You can also make a note from a Reminders list you already use: Settings › Sync › Make a Note from a List.

Apple Notes

A note's ••• menu can send a copy to Apple Notes and keep it updated. Changes made in Apple Notes don't come back. You can also import a note from Apple Notes.

Something isn't working

• A note vanished: check Recently Deleted at the bottom of the menu bar list. Deleted notes stay there for 30 days.
• Notes don't appear: press ⌃⌥H; they may be hidden.
• Clicks don't reach a note: Click-Through may be on. Turn it off in the menu bar list or with ⌃⌥T.
• Sync looks wrong: Settings › Sync › Show Diagnostics Log in Finder, and send the file with your question.

Contact

Still stuck, or found a bug? Write to punyakritsinghmakhni@gmail.com. Include your macOS version, and the Diagnostics log if it's about sync. Every email is read by the person who makes Stickytray.