Can I add a link to DTTG item to the home screen?

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I’ve got a DTTG record that I want fast access to. I’d like to add it to my home screen, like a Safari bookmark. I don’t see any way to do that from within DTTG, and I haven’t been able to find anything about adding an arbitrary URL to the home screen. Is this possible?

2

Not from the share extension.

You could copy the link and create a bookmark on the home page with Workflow. But this is a very kludged solution and does not work smoothly.

3

Alternatively you could use the app LaunchCenterPro, to quick launch the Devonthink URL.

Note quite on your homescreen, but reasonably quick access.

4

This is a good solution and easy to set up with Launcher. If you include Launcher with your widgets than swipe right from the home screen and click the icon for the URL.

5

Okay so it looks like there are three apps being suggested to look at:

  • Workflow
  • Launch Center Pro
  • Launcher

I’ll take a look at them and see what the difference is…

@korm what is kludged / not smooth about Workflow for this use case? How are the other two better?

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I’m not a Workflow expert, but the Workflow I cobbled from a couple of basic actions opened Safari, and then Workflow, and then Safari and then DEVONthink. Annoying.

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Using Workflow, you could also use the action “Open X-Callback URL”.

The workflow would be:

  1. Text
    x-devonthink-item://… (copied from within Devonthink To Go)
  2. Open X-Callback URL

This your you could then export to your homescreen.

The process to open is then as follows

  1. Tapping the workflow-process item icon which:
    1a Opens Workflow
    1b Opens the file Devonthink To Go

When Using Launch Center Pro:
The process to open is then as follows:
1 Tap Launch Center Pro
2 Tap the action within Launch Center Pro, which
2a Opens the file in Devonthink To Go

So the workflow process results in 1 tap less, but 2 automated app switches

The Launch Center Pro results in 1 tap more, but 1 automated app switch (directly opening the Devonthink To Go app)

8

Cool! I will try workflow then. I am okay with two app switches… I want something on my home screen so it’s just a button press away :slight_smile:

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I do exactly what Korm suggested with both Workflow and Launcher. There are three documents I access frequently and use a Workflow as a widget to give me a menu to choose from among the three documents. I use Launcher for quick access to different lists in 2Do (and others apps), and the pro package allows you to choose the size of the icons so you can find a balance between screen real estate and the tap target area.

The great thing about using your Workflows and Launchers as widgets is that they are a global swipe+tap away.

Darryl