Finding notes
You can search through your notes using the Find dialog. To open the Find dialog, click the "Find…" item on the "Stickies" menu in the StickyNote main menu. The Find dialog will appear.
Type in caption and note text you would like to search for in the appropriate boxes. When you finish typing, the Find dialog will automatically update itself. Any notes which match your criteria will appear in the Results window. You can force the search to be either case sensitive or case insensitive by checking or clearing the "Case sensitive" box.
Further, if you don’t type anything in for either the caption text or the note text, the selection mechanism will not consider these fields. For example, if you type "hello" as your note text string and leave the caption text box blank, any notes with the text "hello" in them, regardless of their captions, will appear in the Results box.
You can use the Results window to manipulate your notes. Right-click a note or notes to get a context menu from which you can close, hide, show and bring to top your notes, or toggle their always on top status.
Find will not be able to search the text of password protected, hidden notes, as such a search might reveal some information about this text. The captions, however, are fair game, as these appear publicly in the Show dialog.