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[Rene Ritchie]

I started playing around with Activator the other day and quickly realized there was a lot of really cool stuff you could set up with it. I was wondering if anyone here had any favorite Activator actions, any set ups that were especially cool, functional, and time saving that they'd be willing to share?

What are your go-tos, your must-haves, your can't-live-withouts for Activator?

[BLiNK]

right away i always use the volume up, short hold (next track) and volume down, short hold (previous track) for iPod, or any music player

very convenient. this has to be on Apple's to-do list

[Dean211284]

Swipe status bar left for backgrounder and status bar right for multiflow.

Hold home button to post to twitter account linked with iPhone.

Hold volume up for twitkafly. (post an instant tweet to a different twitter account than the iPhone linked account. Or Facebook too)

[BLiNK]

double tap statusbar for Messages+ Quick Compose (Anywhere)

i've had problems with the default 'From Screen Bottom'

[Thegreatone3]

Swipe up from bottom to reveal multi-task icons. Just seems natural and now I can't do without it. Never liked the double-tap.

[renatog]

Triple tap home button to unlock screen.

[Susiiee16]

Hold status bar for flashlight best

[Dienaldy_k]

Once Pressing Home Button to Unlocked The screen
and Tab Twice On Clock To launch Music app

[Massie]

I don't think any of mine are especially innovative, but I couldn't imagine my phone without them:

Statusbar Swipe Left: SBSettings (also Swipe Up From Bottom Left for Lockscreen)
Statusbar Swipe Right: Messages+ Quick Compose (also Swipe Up From Bottom Right for Lockscreen)
Statusbar Swipe Down: IntelliScreenX
Statusbar Double Tap: Open Camera
Statusbar Hold: Show currently playing song info via NowListening

Volume Buttons
Press Both: Safe Mode (nice to have a back door in case of trouble)
Up and Hold: Take Screenshot

Home Button Triple Press: Compose Tweet
(I'll probably change this, but that's where it's at for now)

I may also explore the idea of using Activator to just launch a custom menu...so instead of having all those different Statusbar swipes, I would just have one swipe that would bring up a menu with those different options. Not sure I'd stay with that, but it's an interesting option.

[Patricksmangann]

I have swipe from bottom and swipe from right go to multifl0w, but that might still do something in an app depending on what app I'm in, so I also have double click goto multifl0w. Double click from lock screen opens camera, and triple click from lock screen, or swipe from above in lock screen opens flashlight. I might have some others set up too, activator is a very useful tweak.