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See your pinned notes, copy one with a tap, or start a new note without opening MemoKey first: from a widget on the Home Screen or Lock Screen, from Control Center, the Action button or Quick Settings, or from the text you just copied.
Add the widget on iPhone
1. Turn the widget on in MemoKey
On iPhone and iPad, open MemoKey, go to Settings → Search & Widgets and turn on Pinned notes widget. It is off until you do. If the app lock is on, MemoKey first asks whether to show notes outside the lock.
2. Add it to the Home Screen
Touch and hold an empty spot on the Home Screen, tap the plus button, choose MemoKey and add the small or the medium widget. The small one shows your first pinned note, the medium one shows several and a plus button.
3. Tap a note to copy it
On iOS 17 or later a tap copies the note without opening MemoKey, with {date}, {time} and {clipboard} filled in, and the tile shows a check mark for a moment. On iOS 16 a tap opens MemoKey with that note copied. The plus button starts a new note.
4. Show one tag instead (iOS 17 or later)
Touch and hold the widget, tap Edit Widget and pick a tag. The widget then shows the notes of that tag; pick Pinned to go back. If the tag is deleted, the widget shows Pinned again.
Lock Screen, Control Center and the Action button
On the Lock Screen you can add widgets that open MemoKey in one tap: New note, Search notes, and a round widget with the number of notes you pinned. The count follows the same Settings → Search & Widgets switch as the Home Screen widget, never includes locked notes, and shows a dash when it cannot be read.
With iOS 18 or later, add New note or Search notes to Control Center, or assign one to the Action button. One tap opens MemoKey on a new note or with the search ready, after the app lock when it is on.
From MemoKey 3.10 there is also a Copy note control (iOS 18 or later): add it to Control Center or the Lock Screen, or assign it to the Action button, and one tap copies a note without opening MemoKey. Choose the note in the control’s settings; if you choose none, it uses your first pinned note. It shows Copied for a moment. Locked notes are never offered.
Add the widget on Android
1. Add the MemoKey widget
Long-press an empty spot on the home screen, open Widgets, find MemoKey and drop its widget on a screen.
2. Choose what it shows
When you place it, MemoKey asks for a source: Pinned or one of your tags. Choose one. Widgets without a choice, and widgets whose tag was deleted, show Pinned.
3. Tap a note to copy it
A tap copies the note without opening MemoKey, with {date} and {time} filled in. The plus button starts a new note.
4. Change the source later
On Android 12 or later, touch and hold the widget and choose to reconfigure it. On older versions, remove it and add it again.
The Quick Settings tile on Android
Swipe down the notification shade, edit the tiles and add New note. One tap opens MemoKey on a new note, after the app lock when it is on. From MemoKey 3.6 there is also a Search notes tile: it opens Home with the search field ready, after the app lock too.
From MemoKey 3.10, add the Copy note tile as well. With one pinned note, a tap copies it; with several, a short list lets you pick one. A toast says Copied, and {date}, {time} and {clipboard} are filled in. Locked notes are never offered.
Note from clipboard
Copy some text anywhere, then long-press the MemoKey icon and choose Note from clipboard. MemoKey saves the text as a new note and opens it, on iPhone and on Android. With the app lock on, the passcode comes first.
The app lock and locked notes
Opening MemoKey from a widget, a control or the tile never skips the app lock: it asks for your passcode or biometrics first, then opens the screen you picked.
Locked notes never appear in a widget or in the pinned count. Pinned notes and tags that are not locked can show on the Home Screen without unlocking, so keep anything private in a locked note.
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