If you want to leave only one app on your iPhone, it's definitely a "memo" app. How to use all functions in a memo (GetNavi web)

Do you know the movie "Mement"? A man who is the main character is triggered by a wound caused by an incident, and his memory can only be retained for 10 minutes. In order to overcome the handicap and achieve a certain purpose, the hero takes a picture of the place he visited and the person he met with an instant camera and attached a memo, and eventually the important thing was to tattoo his body. I will leave it so that I will not forget it ...

It is a mystery movie with such a stage setting. When I saw Memento for the first time in a while the other day, I felt the change of the times. Because you don't have to have a tattoo, no matter how quickly you forget it. Don't use the iPhone "Memo" app. I thought.

How well do iPhone users use the "Memo" app? It is an application pre-installed on iOS and macOS. If you have an iPad that can leave a simple text memo or can use Apple Pencil, you may have launched it once to try handwriting with Apple Pencil. I often use notes when I want to draft a report idea. It is also good to have a function that allows you to quickly leave text by voice input if you suddenly come up with an idea while walking outside. There is a response to realize the convenience.

But did you know that it is an app that can record various information in addition to text? In addition to text, you can throw in and save information such as photos, videos with audio, and handwritten sketches. If I had a time machine, I would like to gently hand over my iPhone and teach me how to use "memo" before the main character of Memento carves a tattoo.

I'm starting to worry about forgetting things these days. For the past few years, I have been visiting mobile terminal-related exhibitions held in Barcelona, ​​Spain at the end of February every year, but I gradually can't remember the location of the "restaurant / cafe that was delicious when I jumped in". I was ... When I take my family to Barcelona someday, I want to take a sneak peek tour of the shops I'm proud of. I wanted to keep the information assets I earned for that time, so this year I used a memo in Barcelona to bookmark information about my favorite stores one by one. Actually, it's a wasteful place to teach people, but I would like to introduce some of them together with how to use memos.

First, let's take a look at the basic items of the iOS 12 "Memo" app. When you select an app, the screen for entering characters using the keyboard opens. By tapping the microphone icon at the bottom right of the software keyboard, the "Memo" app also supports voice input.

When I create work notes, I often use the round checklist icon near the center of the input menu. This is useful when you want to make a "to-do list" in a day.

↑ The icon surrounded by red is the "to-do list".I will never forget it if I check the finished errands

If you select "Take photo or video", the camera will start and you can take a picture of the person or landscape in front of you and record it in "Memo". You can also import from the photos you have taken in your photo library. It is also good to leave maps etc. as handwritten sketches.

"Scan documents" is also an excellent feature. When you hold the restaurant menu or the receipt after payment in front of the camera, the shape is automatically recognized as a document, so you can tap the shutter icon or use the automatic shutter function. Diagonal lines on distorted documents can also be corrected straight after the photo is taken.

I scanned the menu of "Daily Lunch" on the day I visited my favorite restaurant. For images that are difficult to read in color, press and hold to jump to the edit menu of "Scanned Documents", so changing the color to "Black and White" makes the characters clearer and easier to see.

"Map information" is indispensable to reach your favorite store next year. The easiest way to do this is to open the Maps app at that location and add it to your notes from the Share menu, but there's a smart way to do this without touching your iPhone screen. The new function "Shortcut" added to iOS 12 is linked with the "Memo" app.

Do iPhone users use the "Shortcut" app? It is a convenient function that can combine a series of functions often used in iOS into one "chained operation = shortcut". Users can create new shortcuts from scratch, but when you open the app, the "finished product" shortcuts in the "Gallery" menu at the bottom are convenient because they can be used immediately after installing them on your iPhone. is.

↑ You can move to the menu to enter "Siri phrase" by tapping the setting icon surrounded by red.

Shortcuts in the gallery are categorized by several themes. I selected "Share location" from "Quick shortcut" and installed it on my iPhone.

This shortcut is to get the current position captured by the GPS of the iPhone as the URL of the "Map" app and send it with the "Message" app.

Use Siri to operate shortcuts without touching the iPhone screen. Tap the "..." icon on the right shoulder of the shortcuts in the "Library", and then tap the "Settings" icon in the upper right corner of the opened screen. Then, the menu "Add to Siri" is displayed in blue. When this is selected, the screen switches to the voice input screen for registering a phrase for activating a shortcut by voice, so register any voice keyword that is easy to remember. In my case, I spoke to Siri as "Note the location information", and the command was to automatically get the location of the location and leave the URL of the map in the memo.

When I tried using it, it was so convenient and fun for me that I recorded my current location many times on the way until I reached the target restaurant. It seems that the iOS "shortcut" app has magical powers that intoxicate people.

If you use the "Memo" app repeatedly when you go to Barcelona several times in this condition, even if someone asks "What exactly is there in Barcelona?", I will immediately answer the recommended place. Will be able to. For the ambition to become a travel writer one day.