You can create a new note (or open an existing note) by opening a url. What follows are the details of how to use it. When and why you might use it will depend on your own use cases and the types of notes that you are wanting to store in Anecnote.
An example use case: Journal entry
An example might be to use Shortcuts app on your phone to build a flow that asks you questions to gather content for a journal entry that will get added to Anecnote. You could have the Shortcuts flow make today's date the title of the note (in whatever format you want), prompt you to enter your reflections on the day (that will get added as the note content), a picklist of different smiley emojis to select your mood for the day (that will get added as a tag), and a category of Journal set too. When you run the flow you can add all of these things into the url scheme to create a new note and then open it - which will add the note to Anecnote! You could even have the flow add the current weather etc to the note content.
Add a new note
To create a new note you can use the anecnote://new? url. To this url you can add different parameters (some required / some optional).
- title (required)
- content (required)
- category
- area
- source
- tags
- people
A completed url therefore might look something like:
anecnote://new?title=My%20Note&content=Content&category=Work&area=Project%20X&source=https://example.com&tags=Work,Important,Meeting&people=John%20Doe,Jane%20Smith
Important:
- You need to ensure that the values that you add into the url are encoded appropriately. If you are using Shortcuts app to generate the url then there are actions in that to properly encode text.
- Multiple Tags and/or People should be comma separated
By default the url will open Anecnote and automatically create the note in your library. If however you would rather check things and make some tweaks in Anecnote before the note is added then you can append &edit=true to the url.
Open an existing note:
To open a note you can use the anecnote://open?id= url. These links can be generated by either long pressing on a note in list view (and selecting 'Copy Note Link') or by using the share button in the note detail view. An open note url will look something like: anecnote://open?id=20250521143238
Callbacks
If you want to do something with the created note (e.g. Open it or store a link to it) then you can set the url up to 'callback' to wherever you like. For example: anecnote://new?title=Test%20Note&content=Test%20Content&callback=https://example.com/callback
This will open the provided url with an attached status parameter (success or failed) and, if successful, the noteID. You would then extract the noteID and use it however you needed.
