Taking Photos, Videos and Voice Notes Straight into a Folder

Open Settings, the Management tab:

• Under Photography turn on Enable photo capture - "Show the camera command in the file browser and save new photos to the current resource."
• Under Video recording turn on Enable video recording.
• Under Voice recorder turn on Enable microphone recording. If the app has no microphone permission yet, Android asks for it first.

Each group also has a Select resource.. button. The place you choose there is used when there is no folder to save into - for example for the Quick Recorder widget.

Open the folder in the file browser, open the three-dots menu and tap Take photo. Take the photo. It is saved in this folder:

• In a folder on the phone - directly into it.
• In a network folder or in cloud storage - it is uploaded there.
• In a ready-made collection such as Camera Photos or All Images - into the phone's camera folder.

With Ask for each photo name on, you name the photo before it is saved. With Open captured photo for editing on, the photo opens in the drawing editor right away, so you can circle the important part. Geotag photos stores where the photo was taken; it needs the location permission and is off by default.

In the same menu tap Record video. The finished video is saved into the folder you are in, following the same rules as photos. With Open recorded video in player on, it starts playing right after recording, so you can check it at once.

In the file browser press and hold the microphone button (Record audio, "Hold to record") and speak. Let go to stop. If the button does not fit on a narrow screen, it moves into the three-dots menu as Record audio - there one tap starts recording.

With Ask for filename on, the Save Recording window lets you name the note first. You then see "Recording saved: ..". The note is saved as an .m4a file into the place chosen under Voice recorder, or into the folder you are in, or into Downloads.

A hold that was too short is not saved - you see "Recording canceled". A phone call or another app taking over the sound also stops the recording.

*Standard and Legacy editions.*

Add the Quick Recorder widget to your Android home screen: long-press an empty spot, choose Widgets, find FastMediaSorter and drag Quick Recorder out. Its description says it all: "Tap to start a voice recording; tap again to stop and save".

While it records, a notification "Recording.." with a Stop button stays at the top of the screen. Stop from the widget or from the notification. The note is saved into the place chosen under Voice recorder in Settings, or into the phone's audio folder, and you see "Recording saved to ..".

Turn on Save photos to clipboard under Photography - "Also copy each captured photo to the clipboard, ready to paste". Every photo you take with the app's camera is then also put on the clipboard, in full quality. Switch to your messenger, long-press the text field and choose Paste - the photo is attached. The photo is still saved in its folder as usual.

A photo, a video or a voice note is never lost because the network folder or the cloud is out of reach. If the upload fails, the app saves the file on the phone instead - photos in the camera folder, videos in Movies, voice notes in the audio folder - and tells you where: "Saved to DCIM/Camera - Home PC is unavailable". While the app is open you see a short message; in the background it is a notification. Copy the file to its intended place later, when the connection is back.