Short Idea Memo - Users manual

Short Idea Memo is a memo widget application that displays text on your Android home screen. The text can be easily expressed in a combination of symbols, such as bold, checklist, etc., using a text decoration notation called Markdown. It also supports online storage for text backup, synchronization and sharing across multiple devices.

On standard Android, long-pressing on a place on the home screen where no icon is placed will bring up a menu. From here, tap "Widgets", and from the list of widgets that appears, press and hold the square under "Memo Widget" in "Short Idea Memo", and when you return to the home screen, drop it anywhere you want. Press and hold on the placed widget to change its position and size. At this step, you will just see an empty rectangle because there is no saved text. To edit the text, please open the "Short Idea Memo" application.

When you launch the app, the editor will be displayed (a guidance message will be shown the first time you launch the app). In entering text in the area in the center of the screen, the basic operation is the same as that of a general editor in Android. A toolbar is shown at the bottom of the screen. Various buttons are placed on the toolbar, and sliding the toolbar or tapping buttons on both sides will scroll this area.

When you are tapping a color select button, a window will appear to select a color. The bottom five colors mean the most recently selected colors. Please tap those color you want to use from the list and press the "OK" button.

If there is no color you want in the preset, you can also specify any color in RGB or HSV format by pressing the "Custom" button.

To finish creating a note and reflect it in the widget, tap the check(A) button in the lower right corner, or tap "︙" in the upper right corner and select from the menu that appears.

Save the edited text as a file so that it can be used in other applications. Tap "Export as text" from the menu to launch the Android file app, and specify an appropriate destination and file name.

"Export as HTML" saves the Markdown-decorated content as a file that can be viewed in a browser application such as Google Chrome. Please note that the output HTML file cannot be converted back to Markdown format again.

Tap [B] icon at the top of the screen to upload the saved text to the online storage specified in the settings. If a file with a more recent date is found by the online storage, it will download the text and reflect it in the edited content.

To access those services, you need to register for an account beforehand. When accessing online storage, a login screen will be displayed in your browser, so please perform the login process there to allow access to the application.

Short Idea Memo supports OneDrive, DropBox, and Box. OneDrive and Box require full access permissions to files. DropBox only accesses the area dedicated to the application.
In order to prevent discrepancies between the file creation date and upload execution date in online storage, the app judges the file date by the file name. Changing the file name may cause unintended synchronization or other problems.

Switching services or accounts may cause you to lose access to your online storage. In this case, please run "Delete storage cache" from a settings page to reset the access information including login.

Tap the gear(v) icon at the top of the screen to change the settings, including the widget display. → Details of the setting page.

For questions, bug reports, and other support related to the application, please send us an email or use our contact form. Please be specific in your message to prevent it from being filtered into spam mail. Even if you post a comment to the app store review section, I'll not read it.

It may take some time for us to get back to you because I'm an individual developer, but I'll do my best to solve the issue. → Contact form

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