Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

Tip 132

Stop Notes from Being Yellow

Apple clearly loves yellow legal paper because that’s the default look and feel for the Notes app. Unfortunately, there’s no way of changing this within Notes’ Preferences dialog box. However, by tweaking a system file, you can easily and quickly change the page to white. Note that this hack affects all users of the computer and might also need to be repeated whenever you install a new OS X system update. Because we’re editing a system file, as always it’s a good idea to create a Time Machine backup before commencing.

Changing the Notes Default Background Color

Here are the steps required:

1. Quit Notes if it’s running; then open Finder, and hit Shift+Command+G. In the dialog that appears, type the following before ...