Released my 4th App

By Tucker Bichsel

5/23/2025

myLife

I wanted a way to remember the little moments in my life. So I made it. myLife makes it easy to record your memories and more importantly reminds you of them later.

myLife encourages you to frequently add to your memories. Add a title and a description, tag some people in the memory and optionally add an image capturing the moment. Throw a a widget on your Home Screen and get a reminder of a random memory!

App Intents, Shortcuts, and Widgets

My main draw to making this app was to make it easy to record your memories. Any one can write down their memories in notepad and periodically read through them, but I needed to make it easier and more organic to relive them

To do this I needed to make it easy to add, without even opening the app. Apple has made this possible with the use of App Intents. I created some to create a new memory and another to return a random memory.

Now I can create a new Shortcut in the Shortcuts app that uses the my create a Quick memory app intent. Then I can trigger my shortcut on press of the action button. Now adding a memory is just a button away.

With a Widget I can use the random memory app intent to load a memory on the Widget. Now on your Home Screen you can see your memories.