The ist file determines information about the Widget. The structure of the ist file may look familiar if you've looked at the preference files of your Mac or iOS device before. On your desktop, right-click and select Show Package Contents in order to open the widget as a folder rather than open it up in the Dashboard.

This way we can edit the files without having to worry about permissions and saving-based troubles. Because we'll be editing the Stickies Widget, find the widget file Stickies.wdgt and make a copy to your Desktop. You can do a quick Comman+Shift+G to quickly access it. Let's get started!Īll widgets are located in the folder '/Library/Widgets'. You're going to need some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge, but the process certainly isn't too advanced. We'll also be adding a custom 'Erase All' button to make clearing our notes faster.ĭashboards are dying out so let's revive the scene by customizing our Widgets more than ever before. For example, we'll have one sticky-note type for personal thoughts, one for a todo-lists, and possibly another for random notes. The edits are simple: modify the backgrounds of the sticky-notes so that we can have specific note colors (and labels) for specific purposes.

To combat one aspect of this Widget-depression, we'll edit the 'Stickies' Widget and make it our own. We could move on with our lives and continue staring at our messy screens, but that's not in accordance to the Mactuts+ style! Dashboards are dying out so let's revive the scene by customizing our Widgets more than ever before. The dashboard was never meant for this! Well, hopefully it wasn't.

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