Here’s an Easy Way to Quickly Take a Note on Your Pixel Phone
If you’re a Google Pixel user—and take a lot of notes on your phone—there’s a quick hack you could use to jot down notes on it quickly. It involves using the Quick Tap gesture, available on Pixel 4a (5G) and above models, and assigning it the action to create a new note on a note-taking app.
We’ll show you how to set up Quick Tap with Simplenote. Simplenote is free, sleek, and ideal for basic note-taking needs. Plus, it offers a new note action for the Quick Tap gesture, which lets you start a new note straightaway.
Set Up Quick Tap to Launch Simplenote
Quick Tap is a Pixel-specific featurethat allows you to perform tasks by double-tapping the back of your phone.
It supports a number of device operations. However, the one we need for our use case is the Open app action. Open app lets youlaunch an app by double-tapping your phone’s back. Additionally, with some apps, you can even use this action to access specific menus within the app, which can be quite useful too.
For instance, withSimplenote, you get the option to do both: launch the app and create a new note inside it. The latter saves you the step of having to create a new note manually upon launching the app.
Enable Quick Tap on a Pixel Phone
Before you can use Quick Tap, you need to enable it first. Here’s how to do this:
Assign the New Note Action to Quick Tap
Once Quick Tap is enabled, follow these steps to assign it theOpen appaction to create a new note in Simplenote:
If you use some other note-taking app on your Android device, you can select it under theOpen appaction and tap the gear icon beside it to find out all the actions it supports. After which, you can simply select the action that suits your requirements, and you’re all set.
Create a New Note on Your Pixel Using Quick Tap
With the Quick Tap gesture set to create a new note in Simplenote, whenever you want to take a quick note now, simply perform the double-gesture on the back of your phone.
If you’ve enabled PIN or fingerprint authentication in Simplenote, enter it to authenticate yourself. Simplenote will then create a new note for you.
Here, you may add text, edit it, and add tags, among other things. Once you’ve finished writing, hit the back arrow key, and Simplenote will save the note and take you back to its home screen.
Streamline Note-Taking On Your Pixel Phone
As you just saw, the Quick Tap gesture can essentially transform the back of your Pixel phone into a functional button and make launching Simplenote (or any other note-taking app) or starting a new note on it extremely easy.
In fact, not just that, but it also gives you the ability to start a quick note from anywhere on the device—be it the home screen, lock screen, or any other app.
If you’re new to Pixel, Quick Tap can help you with several other functions on the device. Taking scrolling screenshots, for instance, is an interesting application you can simplify using Quick Tap if you need to take a lot of them.
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