HOLIDAY70% OFFHow to reach a note from the Home Screen
You do not have to open MemoKey and look for the right screen first. Long-press the app icon to jump straight to a new note, search or the kaomoji, and on iPhone you can find notes in the Home Screen search. From iOS 16 on, the Shortcuts app also offers two MemoKey actions: Get MemoKey Note uses a note's text in any shortcut, and Add MemoKey Note saves a new note.
Use the icon shortcuts on iPhone
1. Touch and hold the MemoKey icon
On the Home Screen or in the App Library, touch and hold the MemoKey icon until its menu appears.
2. Pick a shortcut
New note opens an empty note, Search opens the notes list with the search field ready, and Kaomoji opens the kaomoji library.
3. Keep typing
MemoKey opens on that screen, whether it was closed or already running in the background.
Use the icon shortcuts on Android
1. Long-press the MemoKey icon
On the home screen or in the app drawer, long-press the MemoKey icon until its shortcuts appear.
2. Pick a shortcut
Tap New note, Search or Kaomoji. They open the same screens as on iPhone.
3. Pin one to the home screen, if you like
Most launchers let you drag a shortcut out of the menu and drop it on the home screen as its own icon, so it is one tap away.
When the app lock is on
A shortcut never skips the app lock. MemoKey asks for your passcode or Face ID, Touch ID or fingerprint first, then opens the screen you picked.
Use a note in any shortcut with Get MemoKey Note
1. Add the action
In the Shortcuts app, create a new shortcut and add the action Get MemoKey Note. Search for MemoKey if it is not in the suggestions.
2. Pick a note
The action asks which note to use. Only unlocked notes appear; locked ones are never offered.
3. Use the text
The action hands the note's text to the next step of your shortcut, for example Copy to Clipboard. MemoKey expands the stored placeholders: {date} and {time} become the current date and time, and the {cursor} marker is left out.
4. Run it anywhere
Run the shortcut in the Shortcuts app, or wherever shortcuts run, for example from Back Tap or Siri. If a note cannot be read, you get an error message, never an empty text. Everything happens on your phone.
Save a note by voice with Back Tap
1. Build the shortcut
In the Shortcuts app, create a shortcut with two actions: Dictate Text, then Add MemoKey Note. What you say is filled in as the note's text.
2. Name it
Give the shortcut a name you will recognise in the Back Tap list, for example Quick note.
3. Assign Back Tap
In the iPhone settings, go to Accessibility, then Touch, then Back Tap, and set Double Tap to your shortcut.
4. Speak a note
Double-tap the back of the phone and speak. The text saves as a new note in MemoKey in the background. The recipe only creates new notes; it never reads any of your notes, so locked notes are not involved.
Add text to a note you already have
On iPhone and iPad with iOS 16 or later, the Shortcuts action Append to MemoKey Note adds text to the end of a note you pick, without opening MemoKey. The new text goes on its own line; the note’s title, tags and pin stay as they are, and it works while the app lock is on.
It only works on unlocked notes. A locked note is not offered, so a shortcut can never write into it. Placeholders such as {date} in the text you add are kept as written.
Find notes in iPhone Home Screen search
On iPhone and iPad, open Settings → Search & Widgets in MemoKey and turn on Search notes from the Home Screen. It is off until you turn it on, and Android has no such setting.
With the app lock on, MemoKey asks first. The prompt explains that titles of unlocked notes will show in the search even before MemoKey is unlocked, and asks you to confirm.
Then swipe down on the Home Screen and type a few words: your notes show by their title or first line. Tap one to open it in MemoKey. The search index stays on your iPhone.
What search shows while MemoKey is locked
Locked notes are never in the search; when you lock a note, MemoKey removes it at once. Titles and the start of unlocked notes do show, even while the app lock is on.
So keep anything private in a locked note. Tapping a result opens the note only after you unlock MemoKey.
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