Saving reminiscences is often a problem. URLs go within the bookmarks part or are copied and pasted in a devoted app. Then there are digicam clicks of posters, or the handfuls of screenshots we take, which lie round like an uncluttered mess within the Pictures app.

Think about a system the place you press the iPhone’s Action Button. It takes a screenshot, writes a quick abstract of the on-screen content material, provides hashtags for fast search, and mechanically saves all the knowledge in an app of your selection. 

Sounds terrific, proper? Nicely, the iPhone gained’t do this. Android units, such because the OnePlus 15, can. And that leaves you with a tedious course of the place you need to save, transfer, and handle essential reminiscences. 

What’s essential will not be at all times straightforward to search out

I’ve over two thousand screenshots saved on my iPhone. Most of it’s content material that I needed to revisit later. Random articles, a cool meme, course materials, job listings, a music video on YouTube, and extra. I wish to save all that data and revisit it. 

It’s simpler stated than completed. The search system constructed inside the Pictures app is solely not sensible sufficient. I just lately saved the screenshot of a unbelievable picture collection documenting the native dance traditions of Shillong, hoping to go to the place within the close to future. 

Between saving that data and the weeks of labor that adopted, I took dozens of contemporary screenshots for work duties. Once I lastly received some respiratory house to discover the close by village, I couldn’t discover the unique screengrab. 

I didn’t have the guts to scroll previous a protracted gallery, and the search system didn’t assist with contextual text-based queries. I used to be disillusioned and considerably livid. My iPhone 17 Professional can run AI fashions domestically, nevertheless it doesn’t provide a system that may assist save essential stuff with some evaluation information tagging alongside. 

You see, on the OnePlus 15, you get a function known as Thoughts Area. With the press of a button, a snapshot of your telephone’s display is saved. The onboard AI analyzes it, writes a brief abstract of it, saves the web page URL, and even creates one-step chores. 

All of those reminiscences are saved with a headline and the preview of the screenshot, as a devoted card in an app. It’s like an AI-powered reminiscence vault, one that’s now additionally built-in with Gemini. The iPhone doesn’t provide any such comfort, regardless of ChatGPT being baked on the coronary heart of Apple Intelligence. 

Fortunately, the Shortcuts app supplied a respite. And though it took a couple of minutes and a few trial-and-error, I used to be in a position to replicate the identical performance because the Thoughts Area on OnePlus telephones, and its equivalent system on Nothing smartphones. 

How do I get it completed? 

My goal was to create a fast and clear process stream, which appears to be like like this: 

Button press > Screenshot saving > Analyze content material > Write abstract, save URL, create tags > Save to Notes. 

To get it working, I herded over to the Shortcuts app on my iPhone and created a framework of the actions. After deciding the precise chain of instructions, I searched the “Use” perform and chosen the AI “Mannequin” for the evaluation and textual content era work. 

When you find yourself choosing the mannequin, you possibly can select between Apple’s Cloud, On-System AI, and ChatGPT. For max velocity, on-device works greatest. I, nevertheless, went with ChatGPT as a result of it has been up to date to the smarter GPT 5.1 mannequin with higher reasoning capabilities. 

Subsequent, I described the necessities within the “Use Mannequin” discipline utilizing pure language description. Lastly, I chosen the built-in Notes app because the vacation spot for saving these reminiscences. You too can push every other app of your selection.  

As soon as the shortcut was prepared and I gave it a reputation, I moved to the bodily motion half. Since I barely use the motion button on my iPhone, I headed over to the Settings app and configured it to set off the shortcut of my selection. 

That’s the top of it. Now, each time I want to save lots of a nugget of knowledge, I merely long-press on the motion button and the on-page data (alongside a abstract and URL) is saved within the Notes app. All of it occurs within the background with out leaping forwards and backwards between apps. 

However what when you already use the Motion Button for one thing else? Nicely, there’s a workaround for that, as nicely. You may park the identical shortcut within the Management Middle and set off it from there. However you’ll have to make a small modification.

To place it particularly, you have to to create a one or two-second delay between tapping on the shortcut button within the management middle and returning to the app the place you wish to take a snapshot. The delay is essential. 

While you set off the shortcut, and it immediately takes a screenshot, your picture saved might be that of the management middle. However when there’s a delay, you possibly can swipe up the management middle and return to the app/web page that you just wish to seize and save. Alternatively, you should utilize Siri to set off the shortcut with a voice command in your iPhone. 

Total, because of on-device AI chops, now you can save your self the trouble of saving random screenshots and dropping them in a crowded gallery. Extra importantly, you possibly can customise the entire stream of saving the knowledge, or add extra steps to it, to suit your wants.