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A ready-made Shortcuts shortcut (“Sayweek idea”) sends a note from the Share menu straight to your ideas box – on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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If you jot down ideas in Apple Notes, a ready-made shortcut (“Sayweek idea”) sends them to your ideas box from the Share menu with one tap. The note itself stays unchanged in Notes.

Set it up

  1. Open Settings → All integrations and click the Apple Notes card.
  2. Click Create shortcut key. Sayweek shows the key only once – copy it.
  3. Click Add the shortcut: the ready-made shortcut (an iCloud link) opens in the Shortcuts app. Add it and paste the key when it asks.

If the ready-made shortcut isn't available yet

If the server owner hasn't published the link yet, the panel shows you how to build it yourself in the Shortcuts app:

  1. Receive Text from Share Sheet.
  2. Get Contents of URL: POST to /api/device/inbox at your Sayweek address, with the header Authorization: Bearer <key> and a JSON body: text = Shortcut Input, source = apple-notes.
  3. Show Notification – so you can see the idea has arrived.

Use it

  1. In the Notes app, open a note (or select part of it).
  2. Tap Share.
  3. Choose Sayweek idea – a few seconds later the text is in your ideas box.

What Sayweek can and can't do

  • The note's text goes to your ideas box; your client names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers are masked before it's stored.
  • Sayweek doesn't read your notes: it only gets what you share with it, and it never changes the note.
  • The key can only add ideas – it can't see or do anything else in your account.
  • The key expires after 180 days (or after 90 days without use). Then create a new one and paste it into the shortcut.

Revoke

  1. Open Settings → Apple: iCloud and iPhone → Connected devices.
  2. In the “Apple Notes (Shortcuts)” row, click Revoke – the shortcut stops working immediately. You can also delete the shortcut itself in the Shortcuts app.

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