The new Notes app in Mac OS lets you tear off notes and to float over the Mac OS X desktop.

You can think of this as the Stickies app on steroids, and not only does it look better, but you can share directly from the Note.

Best of all, if you have iCloud set up with Mac OS X and iOS the pinned note will automatically update when it’s edited from an iPhone or iPad via the iOS Notes app.

Pinning a Note onto the Mac Desktop

Here’s all you need to do to stick a Note on the Mac desktop:

Launch Notes app in Mac OS X and double-click the Note you want to tear off

Position the floating note on the desktop and then close the primary Notes app window

Updating the Note from an iOS Device & iCloud

Super simple to get the Note onto the desktop, but now for best part:

Grab an iPad, iPod touch, or iPhone, and launch Notes app

Locate and edit the same note, it will automatically sync and update on the Mac OS X desktop

Again, you’ll need iCloud set up for this to work, so if you don’t have that configured yet in Mac OS X and iOS do so now. Of course that feature works the other way around too, meaning if you edit the floating note on the Mac desktop it will sync the changes immediately to the iOS versions too.

On a related note, if you don’t like the garish default Notes font, here is how to change it on a Mac and also in iOS.