My Apps

The My Apps view allows you to launch any of your apps directly from Life­Topix — no more search­ing for apps or leav­ing Life­Topix to locate and launch the apps that you fre­quently use.

You can launch your favorite apps by sim­ply set­ting up URL schemes. The for­mat of the URL scheme is app name://. For most apps, the URL scheme includes the name of the app, such as Yelp://. How­ever, some apps such as Face­book use an abbre­vi­ated name. For exam­ple, for Face­book the URL scheme is fb://.

We have started a page with a few pop­u­lar apps: Launch URLs for Pop­u­lar Apps. 

Other sites such as http://handleopenurl.com include infor­ma­tion about URLs for apps as well.

To set up an app:

  • From the Dash­board, tap My Apps from the View Selec­tor and then tap the Plus sign.
  • In the App Name field, Type the name of the app.
  • In the Launch URL field, type the URL scheme, such as app name://.
  • In the App Id field, tap the Dis­clo­sure but­ton to auto-fill the App Id.
  • Tap Save.

The App now dis­plays in the My Apps view, and you can launch your app directly from this view. If the app does not launch cor­rectly or an incor­rect app icon dis­plays, you might need to mod­ify the App Id man­u­ally. To find the cor­rect App Id, con­duct a Google search. Hint: From the App store, the app id is the num­ber shown in bold in the fol­low­ing exam­ple in the URL of the page, such as: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lifetopix/id399076264?mt=8 (e.g. 399076264 is the App Id).

If you wish to mod­ify the app set­tings, click the Dis­clo­sure but­ton. If you wish to remove the app from the list, swipe to clear it, and tap Clear from My Apps.

5 Comments


  1. DaveB
    Apr 15, 2013

    Request/suggestion– Guys, great app! Unless its there and I can’t see it, you may want to allow man­ual sort­ing of the apps (like in other parts of the app UI). Keep up the good work.

    DaveB

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    • DaveB
      Apr 15, 2013

      As an aside, for now as a work around I include a num­ber (1–10) to lead the name of the app to achieve a “man­ual” sort.

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    • LifeTopix Support
      Apr 15, 2013

      Hi Dave,

      Thanks for the suggestion.

      We plan to add sup­port for man­u­ally sort­ing the items in the My Apps list in our 6.1 update which will be avail­able in about three weeks.

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow

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  2. Roxanne Benoit
    Jan 29, 2013

    I find this app very con­fus­ing but I want it to work so badly!
    I host a lot of meet­ings. Church meet­ings, fundrais­ing meet­ings and cater­ing meet­ings.
    I use an agenda and take a lot of notes. I like to email the notes to all the par­tic­i­pants.
    How can life­Topics help me with this. Or is there an App that I can use that will sync with Life Topix.

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    • LifeTopix Support
      Jan 29, 2013

      Hi Rox­anne,

      Thank you for reach­ing out to us with your question.

      You can use a Host­ing Event (Events topic -> Events, Appoint­ments and Reminder view). The sim­plest way is to put all notes related to that event in the event descrip­tion field. Then you can email the event from the right side panel. We also allow you to add tasks, pho­tos, indi­vid­ual notes, etc. inside the event but that is more for your own organization.

      Another approach used by many users is to have your event in Life­Topix and notes in Ever­note, because we allow you to asso­ciate your notes in Ever­note with Life­Topix items such as event, trips, projects and more. You can setup Ever­note note sync­ing from the “Notes + Files” topic.

      Please let us know if we can give you any addi­tional infor­ma­tion on how to use the app.

      Best regards,
      Team LightArrow

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