Manage Actions

Action HQ allows you to manage your own actions, so you can add, change, remove and reorder actions to fit how you work.

To manage actions, click the Manage Actions icon from the Action Bar on the main screen.

Manage Actions

The Manage Actions screen contains a list of all the actions in Action HQ.

From this screen you can add, edit, delete and reorder actions.

Add an Action

Adding a new action is easy. When you tap the add button, a new screen is opened that allows you to enter action fields.

In Action HQ, actions are tied to apps that do those actions, so you first have to specify the action that you want to do followed by the specific app that will perform that action.

Only apps related to that action will be shown and it's up to the app developers to decide whether their app supports that action. For example, Facebook can decide that the Facebook app supports creating a new post on your wall but it doesn't support search because it's not that important for them.

Here's a more detailed explanation of what each field means:

Templates

Templates allow you to pass default information to actions so they can prepopulate certain fields. For example, you could create a new note in Evernote with a default title of "Recipe Idea", ready for you to enter a body. Or you could set up an email to a specific email address and call it "Email John" so whenever you perform the action, John's email address will be loaded automatically into the To Address.

Templates are only supported by the Email and Share/Create actions. How the values are used is completely up to the app that is called, so you should experiment with your specific apps to see what values are passed and how they use them. However, here are some of the most common uses: