1. Add a “quick note” button on your iPhone

Click the link below to add the “quickly email yourself a note” recipe on your IFTTT account. That recipe relies on the “Note” widget that IFTTT’s app can integrate to your smartphone’s today screen.

You will have to specify your email address to receive the reminders (a.k.a. notes) you will send to yourself using that recipe.

You can even customize the recipe to remove the “[Do Note]” prefix, if you want.

After you do that, you can add the “IFTTT” widget to your iPhone’s Today screen, by clicking the “Edit” button at the buttom of that screen, and them moving the IFTTT widget to the top, like this:

After your confirm that change, your iPhone’s Today screen should display that new “Quicky email to yourself” icon:

Whenever you’ll click on it, a note entry screen will allow you to quickly send a reminder to your inbox: