How to Show a Color Bar Instead of Background Color?

Learn how to choose between the color bar or background color in notes.

SideNotes allows you to choose a color of a note. Since SideNotes 1.3, by default, the whole note gets the background color. The previous version had a color bar. You can choose which way you want your notes to be.

Color bar and background

  1. Open Preferences (simply press CMD. or
  2. click the cog button in the right-bottom corner of the folder list and choose Preferences)
  3. Open Appearance tab
  4. Find Note Colors and choose Background or Bar.

Preferences