Notes menu

In the upper right corner of the note there is a button [≡] that calls up a menu that contains additional actions you can perform with the note.

Share Note...

This option allows you to forward the contents of a note (text and attachments) to someone. For this purpose, other applications and tools are used that allow the transfer of information. This could be email, social networks, instant messengers, etc. The list will depend on the apps and programs installed on your phone.

Once you select this item, a list of these applications will appear at the bottom of the window. Select the desired application, it will open and the information from your note will appear in it. You can then send this information to the intended recipient.

Note 1:

The "Share Note..." feature uses the standard Android mechanism for exchanging data between applications. This mechanism has a limited buffer size, so avoid sending very long texts or large attachments through this mechanism.

Note 2:

Not all apps can accept both text and media files. For example, if you share a note that contains only text, the text will be transferred, but if the note contains both text and attachments, only the attachments will be transferred. This is not a bug of the MultiNotes app, but a feature of the app you are trying to send the information through.

Duplicate Note

Use this option if you want to create a copy of an existing note. The old note will be saved and closed, and a copy of it will open on the screen. Before this, you will see a message with this information. If you tap the red X, the duplicate note action will be canceled. The new note will differ from the original note only in the date and time of creation.

Note:

There is another way to create a copy of a note. You can use the app's main menu. In this case, you will be able to create copies of several notes at once.

Password Protect

You can password protect important notes. To make this process easier and faster, all notes use a single password, which you can set in the "Settings" section of the "Security" section. Therefore, this menu item will appear in the note only after you set a password in Settings.

When a note is password protected, its contents are not visible on the sticky note on the board. However, to prevent the note from appearing completely empty and to help you distinguish one password-protected note from another, an additional "Visible Text" field appears in the note.

In this field, you can enter some text that will be displayed on the board. The rest of the text will be hidden.

When you try to open a password-protected note, you'll see the following window:

To access the note, you must enter the password you set in Settings.

Note 1:

If you enabled biometric authentication when setting your password, an additional window or message will appear asking you to place your finger for authentication. If you have face authentication set up on your phone, it will happen automatically.

Note 2:

If a note is password-protected, it will affect all its usage modes, such as placing it as a widget, printing, etc. If you decide that a note no longer requires password protection, you can undo it. To do this, open the menu again and select "Remove Password."

Note 3:

After password-protecting or unprotecting a note, be sure to save the note by tapping the green checkmark; otherwise, the new state will not be remembered.

Read-only mode

This mode prevents editing and deleting notes. This can be useful if you have a note with important information that you don't intend to change, but are concerned that someone might accidentally edit or delete it.

In this mode, you can view attachments, but you can't add or delete them. Also, in this mode, all menu items and reminder settings are available. However, you cannot delete or edit the note's contents. At the same time, you still have the ability to select and copy text.

When you enable Read-Only Mode, a message will appear asking you to confirm this action.

If you still need to make changes to the note, you can disable Read-Only Mode. To do this, open the menu again and select "Edit Mode." A message will also appear asking you to confirm this action.

Note:

After changing the mode, be sure to save the note by clicking the green checkmark; otherwise, the new state will not be remembered.

Add an event to Phone Calendar

You may already know that any Android phone has a calendar where you can schedule events, mark dates, and more. Most often, this is Google Calendar, but other calendars may also be preinstalled by the phone manufacturer or installed by the user. The MultiNotes app can interact with these calendars. You can create an event from a note in the selected calendar, and then open this event from the linked note at any time.

Note 1:

Don't confuse the Calendar mode in MultiNotes with external calendars available in other apps on your phone. This menu item is specifically about these external calendars that you may already be accustomed to using.

Note 2:

Once upon a time, it was possible to open a linked note from the calendar. However, starting with Android 8, Google, for unexplained reasons, removed this feature. Most likely, as usual, for "security reasons." Therefore, while you can now open a calendar from a note, you unfortunately cannot open a note from a calendar.

If you don't have any calendars registered on your phone, you will receive a corresponding message and will not be able to use this feature. If you have calendars, you will see the following window:

You can select the desired calendar from those calendars that are on your phone. Then, set the start and end dates of the event and click the Create Event button.

An event with the text in your note will be created in the calendar you selected for the time period you set.

Note 3:

The event's appearance may depend on the Android version (in the case of Google Calendar), or may have a different appearance entirely if you're using calendars from other developers.

After creating the event, the window will look like this:

In this window, you can perform the following actions:

👉 To delete a calendar entry, tap the "Delete Event" button. A warning will appear on the screen, asking you to confirm or cancel the deletion.

👉 Open the event in the calendar. Tap the "Open in Calendar" button. The corresponding Calendar app will launch and open the event.

👉 If you've made changes to the note text, you can update the text in the calendar event. To update the information in the calendar, tap the "Update from Note" button. A warning will appear on the screen that the previous text information will be lost.

When a note is linked to a phone calendar event, the menu item changes to "Event in Phone Calendar." By selecting this item, you will be able to perform actions with this event.

When you add an event to your phone's calendar, that note is also linked to the app's calendar. By clicking the calendar button at the bottom of the board, you can see your note on the calendar:

Pin to Home Screen

This is one of MultiNotes' most popular features. You can pin any note to your phone's home screen as a widget.

Note 1:

Unfortunately, placing a widget directly from the app isn't supported on all phones. If your phone doesn't support this feature, you won't see this menu option. What to do in this case, you can read in this section.

After you select "Pin to Home Screen," a warning will appear on the screen informing you that the note will be saved and closed. To confirm, click on the green check mark. After that, you will see a widget placement window that will look something like this:

Note 2:

This window is not part of the app and may vary slightly on different phone models.

After this, the note in the application will be closed and an icon will appear in the upper corner. It will distinguish it from other notes on the board. Please note that the note is not transferred from the app to the screen; it remains on both the board and the screen.

👉 To open a note on the screen, simply tap on it the same way as in the app. The note will open separately, outside the app interface.

👉 You can remove the widget from the screen in the same way you remove widgets from other apps. This procedure may vary on different phones. Typically, you need to tap and hold on the widget until a pop-up menu appears, which will contain the “Delete” option. When you delete a widget, the note itself is not deleted, but remains in the application.

👉 When deleting a note that a widget is linked to, the widget itself isn't deleted; it simply remains on the screen without the note. This is a feature of the Android system. Therefore, you will see a corresponding warning.

If you click the green checkmark, the note will be deleted and the widget will look like this:

You can either delete this empty widget or link another note to it.

Note 3:

If you add a widget via a menu item in a note, it's easier to delete that widget and create a new one than to link another note to that widget.

If you decide to link another note to this widget, click on it. You will see a search window:

Enter a search term to find the note you need. Click on the search button. All notes containing that term will be displayed below. Click the desired note, and it will be attached to this widget.