Android at least has specific tasks in apps' home screen context menus (hold over app icon, get list of tasks). Those can be dragged to the home screen so you g

Android at least has specific tasks in apps' home screen context menus (hold over app icon, get list of tasks). Those can be dragged to the home screen so you get buttons for specific actions. I have a host of quick capture tools on my home screen: "New Note" task icon (personal notebook) "Add new task" icon (adds new task in my todo app - personal or work depends on which one was open last) Office Lens (camera, documents, whiteboards) a shortcut to my work notebook's "quick notes" section (would be another "new note" button but OneNote can't handle that) I can pretty much press a button and instantly be capturing what I need to capture. The drag-a-task thing is also useful with Outlook, since the default Outlook shortcut opens the email client. Luckily, Outlook's tasks include "Open calendar", "new event" and "new email". Bam, calendar has its own icon on the homescreen too.