How to put notes on the cell phone screen: APP and Android Widgets

There are several ways to add notes to the cell phone screen, so you don’t forget about your earrings. Generally you have to add a widget on the desktop. What usually varies is its functionality. It can be a widget with a list of notes, a shortcut, a framed note, loose text or a floating note that persists on top of other apps.

In case you don’t know how to add a widget, press and hold for a couple of seconds on an empty area of ​​the desktop or home screen and tap “Widgets”. Hold your finger on the widget you want and when the home screen appears release it. On some devices the “Widgets” menu may be found in the app drawer.

List of notes

For example, some famous note apps like Evernote (green widget in the image) Google Keep (yellow) or some pre-installed like “Notes” from Samsung (white), allow you to add a widget to the desktop where you can preview all your notes. This can be inconvenient when you need to see the entire content of a particular note. If your device does not have a widget like this (as is the case with some Motorola), there are third-party apps that can help you.

Individual notes

Pictures above: Stickie Notes, Floating Stickies y Persist.

One of my favorite apps for putting individual notes on the desktop or home screen is Stickie Notes, which is added as any widget. Its advantage is that it shows all the content of a note (you can scroll over it if there is enough text). An app like ColorNote it only allows you to add a named shortcut to the content of a note. Another Notes Widget shows everything, but reduces the font size based on the size of the widget.

If you have something really important to remember, you may need a floating note, the kind that stays visible above any application. One utility that does this is Sticky Notes Y Floating Stickies. If it gets in the way, you can pin the note to the edge of the screen or hide it completely from the status bar.

If you prefer to add pure text to the home screen, use Any Text O Simple Text Widget. Persist is another option that remains visible above any app.

Other

Instead of adding reminder notes on the desktop, you can generate a notification, whose icon will always be visible in the status bar and on the lock screen (something that can hardly be done with widgets, because many devices do not support them in this screen). You can do this by saying “create reminder” to the Google Assistant (wake it up with OK Google). You can also use Notification Notes.

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