Our Verdict
The practical equivalent of Post - It notes , Stickies have a storied history on the Mac , dating way back to the release of organisation 7.5 in 1994 . More than a decade ago , this utility became something of an rethink for Apple , who evict the cute small squares from the Finder begin with OS X Tiger , where they settled peacefully into retirement as Dashboard widgets .
Perhaps sense Mac owners had bored of colorful desktop notes , developer Chronos soon abandoned its own third - party take on the concept . Apparently you ca n’t keep a good sticky down , becauseStickyBrainhas been resurrect for a new generation . But can it remain relevant in a wandering - first man ?
StickyBrain hold the conversant look and feel of Apple ’s built - in Notes , but with fresh improvements like hierarchic folders and conveyable background signal colors .
This is your brain
The contemporary StickyBrain starts completely from scratch as an only newfangled program , rebuilt from the undercoat up using Apple ’s new Swift programming linguistic process . The result is a lean , faster banknote director that puddle it easy to line up whatever you ’re take care for in a shot and devise selective information using hierarchical folders .
Chronos likens StickyBrain to a “ really big drawer ” where users can fix scraps of info , including screenshots , photos , and text edition files imported from Microsoft Word , TextEdit , RTF , and HTML files with introductory formatting intact . If you ’ve manage to hang onto your previous Apple Stickies over the class , StickyBrain can import those as well , free them from a Dashboard - only prison house .
Naturally , StickyBrain retains the impulsive color schemes that made Stickies democratic in the first place . banknote backgrounds can be assigned 10 different colors , or kept apparently white , should you prefer not to get too fancy . There ’s no support for customs duty colors , and I found a microbe where the default note colour set in Preferences refused to stick ( pun intend ) until I pick out it again on the actual note .
One of the neatest StickyBrain features allow applications to be attached to bank bill as reminder when shopping , for example .
StickyBrain follows the familiar three - control board overture used by Apple ’s progress - in Notes , with a listing of notes in the center and a viewer at decent , but here the left board displays All , Unfiled , and Trash views , as well as custom folders create by the exploiter ; subfolders can also be added for better organization .
Get attached
Although StickyBrain remark ca n’t actually be attached to the background like Stickies could , they ’re not strictly bound to the viewer , either . As long as the app is unresolved , notes can exist in their own window , where they can be viewed or edited directly .
Taking this freedom one whole step further , StickyBrain also allows other app to be attached to note . For example , a listing of products you intend to purchase from Amazon or another online finish can be configured to automatically hover above the web web web browser as a reminder on your next practical shopping trip . It ’s a handy and unique feature I have n’t get word before .
StickyBrain notes do n’t only have to live in the viewer , but they ca n’t be stick to the Finder desktop the way Apple ’s Stickies once could .
regrettably , Chronos land StickyBrain out of retreat on the heels of Apple introducing enhancement to its free , work up - inNotes with OS X El Capitan , include the ability to make checklist and add photograph , video , web universal resource locator , or map emplacement directly from other apps . That makes it elusive to justify spend $ 30 on a less - subject third - company root .
Worse yet , StickyBrain miss support for syncing to iCloud and popular cloud Service like Dropbox , meaning users who abandon banknote would have no way to view or edit their library from an iOS twist . It ’s a curious omission considering the former edition include sync with Palm and iPod devices , a rather forward - thinking concept in the pre - iPhone era .
StickyBrain is flying and sporting , but I did find at least one hemipteron where the diligence fails to think back the default background coloring .
Bottom line
StickyBrain is a slick Mac note manager with several niceties like attach applications to notes , but the want of mobile sync and the loom tail of improvements coming to OS X El Capitan ’s build - in note make this a cautious testimonial for now .
