# Stickies and text

> Stickies for ideas, text for headings and notes.

## Stickies

Press `S` and click the board, or drag a sticky straight off the toolbar button. The toolbar’s colour picker sets the colour for new stickies: yellow, pink, blue, green or purple.

A new sticky starts in editing, ready to type (“Type something…”). To edit one later, select it and press `Enter`, or double-click it. Typing on a selected sticky doesn’t write into it: single keys are shortcuts (`S` for another sticky, `Space` to pan, `⇧` `1` to see everything), so you never add stray letters to someone else’s note. `Esc` or clicking away finishes. One stretch of typing is one undo step.

- **Author**: each sticky shows who wrote it, in their colour.
- **Text fits itself**: the type shrinks as you write more, so a short idea reads big and a long one still fits.
- **Style**: with stickies selected, the toolbar above them changes the colour, and the typeface between **Sans** and **Handwriting**, for every selected sticky at once.

Pasting text that isn’t a link makes a sticky (up to 5000 characters).

A sticky can become an issue: select one or more and choose **Make issues** (`⌥` `I`). The first line is the title and the rest is the body. When it’s pushed, the sticky turns into the new issue’s card in place. See [Built-in actions](https://tack.social/writing-back/actions.md).

In a section in [silent mode](https://tack.social/facilitation/silent-mode.md), new stickies stay face down to everyone but their author until they’re revealed.

## Text

Press `T` and click anywhere to start typing. Text has four sizes (**Small**, **Medium**, **Large** and **Extra large**) and the same two typefaces, from the toolbar above it. `Esc` or `⌘` `Enter` finishes. Text you leave empty disappears.