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The void exists to keep you off your phone, and these guides are about that problem more broadly: how to keep notes and to-dos without a smartphone, and how to stop a quick check from turning into twenty minutes. Most of what's here works with whatever tool you use even if it isn't the void.
Notes, to-dos, and reminders on a dumb phone
Switching to a flip phone or a Light Phone usually means giving up your notes app. Texting your thoughts somewhere that sorts them is the workaround that holds up.
Capture now, review later: a habit for using your phone less
Most phone checks start with something real to do. Splitting capture from review keeps the real thing and drops the twenty minutes after it.
Write a note from your iPhone Lock Screen
iOS 18 lets you swap the flashlight or camera button on your Lock Screen for an app's control. Put The Void's 'Write memo' control there and a note is one press away, with the keyboard already up.
Save highlighted text from any iPhone app
Something worth keeping usually ends up as a screenshot nobody looks at again. Highlight it, share it to The Void, and review it later as a quote with its source.
Take a note with Siri, hands-free
For a thought that arrives while your hands are full: say "New memo in The Void", say the thought, and Siri says "Sent." Nothing to open, nothing to look at.
Setting up the void keychain
The keychain is the void with no phone at all: hold the button, say the thought, let go. It keeps recordings until it's back on your Wi-Fi, then sends them to be transcribed and sorted.