[request] single note shortcuts from mobile homepage

horizonbrave · 2019-04-14T04:47:14.918Z

Hi, one of the feature I miss from Evernote is the possibility to add shortcuts to single notes on the homepage of my Android device. There’s some note I need to quickly and repeatedly access from the homepage of my phone because I think it’s faster then accessing the app and choosing the right note.
What do you think

CalebJohn · 2019-04-14T05:09:18.305Z

I think I understand what you’re getting at.

What do you think about if you could add a tag (something like “homepage”) to certain notes and those ones would appear on the opening screen of the app?
Would that be right for you?

tessus · 2019-04-14T06:11:12.427Z

The problem is that Joplin is a react-native app, which means it has a few restrictions. I don’t know if your suggestion is even possible. At least not with the app itself. Maybe one could provide a widget for Android, but then the app would have to support deep linking. Yet again, I don’t know, whether this is possible with react-native.
The idea is great… and I always wanted to suggest deep linking as a feature request.

horizonbrave · 2019-04-14T06:46:42.246Z

CalebJohn:

What do you think about if you could add a tag (something like “homepage”) to certain notes and those ones would appear on the opening screen of the app?

Thanks for the suggestion, not too bad as a temporary fix

CalebJohn · 2019-04-14T15:48:53.906Z

I see, I misunderstood what you wanted, tessus made it clear. Unfortunately I also think this is too challenging for the time being.

kocane · 2019-04-21T15:34:31.478Z

For what it’s worth, I’d really appreciate this functionality as well.

kuro68k · 2020-05-19T18:43:18.378Z

It seems like it’s possible and not even too complex: https://medium.com/better-programming/react-native-how-to-build-a-home-screen-widget-for-ios-and-android-8b2d7db343cb

I would be happy to look at building the native widget if support could be added to the main app.