Getting started
- Drawing
- Text
- Alarm
Stickies and the Action Menu
Preferences
More information
Welcome

Whether you use it as a fancy egg timer, your personal notebook or to quickly create drafts – SketchBox gives your stickies more power without the clutter. This guide helps you to make the most out of its functionality.
Have fun!
Getting started

When you close a sticky, it remembers its position on screen so that it's exactly where you left it when you double-click its preview image to open it again.
By default your new stickies get a random color upon creation (you can change the color of each sticky later). But you can also choose to set a default color that is always used if you prefer your stickies to be of a single color.
Your collection is automatically saved in a database when you quit SketchBox, so you'll never have to worry about forgetting to save your work.
You can organize your stickies with categories. Click the "+" in the bottom left corner of the main window to create a new one and drag stickies on its list entry to assign them to that category. Each sticky can be in multiple categories.
Each sticky basically consists of three layers – each of which providing a specific functionality. Select the layer you want to use by clicking the respective tab on the right side of the sticky's window.

The drawing layer can be resized both from the bottom right corner (like every normal window) and from the top left corner, so you can easily adjust the canvas' size and clipping.
You can also take a screenshot with this layer. Activate the screenshot mode by clicking the camera icon, move and resize the window to frame the portion of the screen you'd like to capture, then simply click inside the window. Done.

The toolbar at the bottom provides you with the most basic formatting actions – more are available through the Format menu. You can also paste formatted text (including links and images) from the pasteboard or drag it in.
The first line of the text area is used as a title when you roll up your sticky to save space on your screen (double-click the title bar).


Stickies and the Action Menu

You'll also find a little gear symbol there which displays a menu of actions you can apply to the sticky. These are:
Clear Canvas – Deletes everything on the drawing layer. Can be undone.
Crop Image – Deletes everything of your drawing that is outside of the window's bounds.
Save image to Desktop – Saves a copy of your drawing to the Desktop. The filename is automatically chosen to be unique.
Window Level – Sets a window level for this sticky. You can set it to be displayed on top of any other windows, on the Desktop or as a normal window.
Preferences
You can customize various parameters of SketchBox's appearance and behavior through the Preferences dialog. It is divided into several sections:


By default, the background of drawings that are copied to the clipboard is transparent. However, as some applications (most notably NeoOffice) do not support that properly, you can set a background color for the clipboard.




More information
If you have any additional questions and/or comments on SketchBox, please feel free to get in touch. You are also invited to visit the omz:software website for recent information about SketchBox and other fine Mac software.