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How To Customize OS X Mavericks Notes App

March 29, 2014


In This Episode: How To Customize Mavericks Notes App. Change the background texture or color and even add additional fonts to OS X Mavericks Notes App.

TRANSCRIPT:

...Let's Get Started

Customizing the Notes App is a relatively easy process, Involving editing just two files, one to change the background texture or color and the other to add additional fonts to Notes Default Font List.

The process is shown here, basically; after pressing ctrl + click or right clicking on the Notes App Icon in the Applications folder, select “Show Package Contents”, then navigate to the Resources Folder.

The Resources folder contains a file named paper.tiff, a multi-image Tiff file that you can edit to change the background texture or color of the Notes App.

Also; within the Resources folder, there are various folders for the country code of your system and they all contain a plist file named DefaultFonts, a text file that you can edit if you want to change or add additional fonts to the Default Font List in Notes.

The default country code folder to use for the US is en.lproj and uk.lproj for the UK.
Basically; edit the plist file in the folder according to your Mac’s country code setting.

*** VERY IMPORTANT ***
Before beginning any edits, make sure to first make a backup of the original two files, otherwise; the only way to retrieve them is by reinstalling Mavericks.

How To Customize OS X Mavericks Notes App
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So, assuming that you have made a backup of the original files, make another copy and put them in a folder on your desktop.

We’ll be using Preview to edit the multi-image tiff file and TextEdit for the plist file.

After all edits are done, simply copy the plist file back to the Resources folder in the appropriate country code folder and enter your admin details to confirm.

Similarly, copy the paper.tiff file back to the Resources folder and again, enter your admin details to confirm.

Now launch Notes to view the changes.

And that's all there is to it...Done Like Dinner

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