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Submitted by jimspoon on 2017/02/24 10:37

I have been experimenting and this is working great.

I assume you have set up email to IQ to poll a specific address for notes to import into IQ.

Put that "send to infoqube" address into your Google contacts on your Android device.

Install and launch the Mail Linker app. It will present you with a list of your contacts. Tap on your "send to infoqube" contact. Mail Linker will create a shortcut on your Androiid home screen. When you tap on the shortcut, your email app will launch and take you to a Compose screen with your "send to infoqube" address already filled in as the recipient. In my case, it is Gmail that opens up.

Tap on the Subject line if you want the dictated text to appear in the Item field. Tap on the "Compose email" box if you want your dictated text to go to the HTML pane.

Your Android keyboard will appear. In my case it is Google Keyboard aka Gboard, which has a built-in speech to text function. Tap the microphone symbol, and start dictating your note. The speech recognition is very good. When you are finished with your note, tap the Send button. You're done! IQ will import your email into an item and fields as you have specified in IQ.

I have also installed the Texpand text expander app, which allows me to enter a time stamp with any shortcut or format I desire. I've set it to enter a timestamp in the format 2017.02.24.0924 whenever i type "ddd<space>"". Note: on my Galaxy Note 3 running Marshmallow, Texpand would not work until i went into settings and disabled "Show floating indicator when typing".

So when the Gmail compose window pops up, I tap the Subject line, tap "ddd<space>" to begin the note with a timestamp, then the microphone, and dictate.

Note that when you dictate your note this way, the Google Speech to Text function will stay open as long as you needed it to. The speech to text button may go gray if you wait to long, but you can resume dictating simply by tapping that button again

You can also say "new line" while you are dictating and the Google voice typing will insert a line break.

I should be able be able to get to the Compose Email screen by saying "OK Google, send an email to infoqube". But so far I have not gotten this to work, whether I say "email", "mail". or "gmail".

I hpe somebody else will try this and let me know of any tips you learn !!

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Very nice! I really like the idea of having a link which automatically launches and has IQ in the address field. That is a step I had wanted to eliminate but had not though of a way to do so. I was spoiled by just being able to click on "create note" using the evernote app, this gets me there with IQ.

I'm going to try this when I get a chance.

Jim, Mail Linker is a great find, I've installed it and it's very useful.

Glad you like it! I would like to find more ways to streamline the workflow ... like with an OK Google command that would take us right there even from the lock screen or having to swipe between home screens. Or maybe a special key combination.

"I should be able be able to get to the Compose Email screen by saying "OK Google, send an email to infoqube". But so far I have not gotten this to work, whether I say "email", "mail". or "gmail"."

FWIW this does work for me on a Nexus 6P. The biggest problem I have with Google Now voice control is that if you always require a pin or fingerprint to unlock your phone (which I do), you then have set up the phone to also allow your voice to wake the phone and unlock it. Which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't when it can't decide if I am me or not.

Jim,

I just got a new phone and much to my disappointment Mail Linker is no longer available in the Play market. Have you found any alternatives?

Thanks

You could google for " "mail linker" apk" and you will find links to pages where you can download the "mail linker" app. Put it in your Android downloads folder, then tap on the APK to install it. You'll have to check "Unknown Sources" in your Android security settings before you can do this.

I also searched the Play Store for apps with similar functionality. One that looks good is Email Shortcuts by Gabor Keszthelyi. Also there's "Send Mail Shortcut", "Shortcut Mail".

Good luck!

Thanks Jim, the Email shortcuts one is perfect. Even allows defining the subject and body.

Glad it worked out!