When you tap on a Quickpick entry, the Notification Center whisks away, but you frequently make a brief pit stop at the Quickpick app before being taken to your destination. To delete a Quickpick entry, don't go to the Edit field but simply swipe on an entry from the list in the Quickpick app and tap the resulting red Delete button.Lastly, the action isn't always smooth in leaving the Notification Center. Below in regular-strength font is the title you gave each entry in the app. Unassigned entries will litter your Notification Center if you created fewer than the number of entries you selected for it to display in Settings.Matt ElliottAlso annoying is every entry in the Notification Center has "Quickpick" in bold as its title, which is redundant and, sadly, uneditable. On the iPad (Quickpick is a universal app), you can up to 20 Quickpick entries in the Notification Center. You can create as many as you'd like in the app, and tapping the Edit button, you can rearrange the order (the top 5 or 10 entries listed in the app are displayed in Notification Center, depending on your settings). You can change the number listed in Settings > Notifications > Quickpick to 1, 5, or 10, but it'd be better if Quickpick just displayed the number you created in the app. For example, if you set up three Quickpick entries, you'll see two lines in the Notification Center listed as Quickpick unassigned 4 and Quickpick unassigned 5. If you have less than five created, it lists unassigned items, which is annoying. For more, check out the various URL scheme lists here.You can use URL schemes to create shortcuts to many of your apps.Matt ElliottBy default, Quickpick displays five items in the Notification Center. Other examples include youtube:// to open the YouTube app, music:// to open the music app to the song currently playing (or paused), and itms-apps:// to open the App Store. Similarly, fb://feed takes you to the News Feed, while twitter://post?message opens the New Tweet screen of the Twitter app. For example, typing fb://profile in the Link field creates a shortcut to the Facebook profile page of the Facebook app. The app supports URL scheming for this functionality.
You can skip the Composer tool and use the Title and Link fields to create shortcuts to apps. For example, I easily created an entry for but was unable to create an entry for.
Hit Done and a new entry gets added to the Notification Center.Use Quickpick's Composer tool to easily create shortcuts to the Notification Center.Matt ElliottIf you select the Open Website option from the Composer tool, it simply adds the " prefix to the Link field, leaving the rest of the URL field for you to fill out, along with the title. The contact information is then added to the Title and Link fields. For the first three, you'll be taken to your address book, where you're able to select a contact and phone number or e-mail. You can then either manually enter a title and a link to create a new entry using the Title and Link fields at the top of the screen, or you can tap the Composer button below to use four preconfigured options for making a phone call, composing an e-mail, composing a text, or opening a Web site. Launch the app and hit the plus-sign button in the upper-right corner. I'll add a link to its page in iTunes should it make a return.You can add a title and URL manually to create a Quickpick entry, or you can use the Composer to select from four preconfigured options.Matt ElliottThere are two ways to add an item to the Notification Center with Quickpick. The design of the app leaves a bit to be desired, but the added functionality it brings to the Notification Center is much appreciated.Note: the Quickpick app disappeared from the App Store this morning. With Quickpick, however, I can call, text, and e-mail my favorite contacts with a swipe and a tap, and I can access commonly frequented apps and Web sites. With the 99-cent Quickpick-The Universal iOS Launcher app, however, I am pulling down the Notification Center on my iPhone with greater frequency.Really, the only things I've done with the Notification Center since its debut is delete the occasional alert and remove the stock ticker so I no longer have to watch prices scroll by for stocks I don't own. I don't use the Notification Center that iOS 5 ushered in nearly as much as I thought I would when I first saw it. Customize iOS 5's Notification Center with Quickpick
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