Help & FAQ

LinkIT is an app for saving and organizing your web links ("shortcuts") under custom names, grouped into Categories, grouped into Pages. On top of that it includes Sticky Notes (with checklists, drawings, and voice recordings), a Journal system for freeform notebooks, public share links, labels, an archive/trash recycler, and optional cloud sync — all designed to hold a lot of data without slowing down or running out of room. It's built for people who accumulate a lot of links and notes and want them fast to find, organize, and (optionally) sync across devices.

Yes — click "Continue as Guest" on the sign-in page to start using LinkIT immediately with no signup. Guest mode has the same limits as the free Lite tier, and your data is stored only on this device (never on our servers) — the same way LinkIT worked before accounts and cloud sync existed. You can create a real account at any time; your local data on that device stays usable afterward.

A Page is the top-level container (e.g. "Work", "Recipes"). Inside a Page you create Categories, shown as tiles rather than a plain grid list. Inside a Category you add Links — a renamed shortcut with its own title, URL, and optional description. You can reorder Pages, Categories, and Links via drag-and-drop (including on touch/mobile devices), or sort them alphanumerically with one click.

Every list — Pages, Categories, Links, and Labels — supports two modes: alphanumeric (A-Z, the default) or manual (your own drag-and-drop order). Toggle the sort icon next to a section to switch between them at any time.

Pinning a Page, Category, or Link keeps it at the top of its list regardless of sort mode, so your most-used items are always within reach. On a Category tile, the pin button lives in its own top button bar rather than a hidden 3-dot menu, so it's always visible.

They have their own dedicated buttons in the sidebar, ordered Labels, then Archive, then Trash. Help & FAQ is also reachable directly from the sidebar.

The waffle (grid) button opens a window listing other apps and the landing page published at apexhit.org, so you can jump between ApeXhit-branded tools without leaving LinkIT. It stays on top of every other screen, button, or window, and updates automatically to match what's currently listed on apexhit.org.

Use "Sign up with Google" on the sign-in page for an instant account (registered as a Co-Owner on the free Lite tier), or sign in with an email/password if you were invited by an existing Root Owner or Co-Owner. You can also skip signup entirely with "Continue as Guest."

Root Owner is the platform operator — the only role that can issue or update any group's license, create Co-Owners, disable accounts, or change app-wide feature flags. A Co-Owner runs their own independent group and can invite Members, but can't change their own license (only the Root Owner can). A Member shares their group's data and sync but can't manage accounts or licenses.

Lite (free) covers the essentials with page/note/category limits and cloud sync included. Pro removes those limits and adds the Journal feature and Voice. Family adds Draw and Translate, plus more seats. Team adds Restore Points and more seats. Enterprise is unlimited seats for larger organizations. See the License Tiers & Accounts page in the Legal Center for the full comparison table, including seat limits and a preview of planned pricing.

Open the Upgrade Plan page (linked from the sign-in page and from Account > License) and join our Discord to request a free upgrade. Once approved, the Root Owner activates or updates the license for your group from Account > Members (or, for their own group, from Account > License) — this applies to the entire group. Prices shown on that page are a preview of future planned pricing only; every upgrade today is still free.

Your PIN confirms sensitive account actions (like changing a license or disabling an account) and can manually lock the app behind a PIN-entry screen via the "Lock LinkIT" button. That lock only ever engages when you tap that button — simply minimizing the app, switching apps, or the Android back button will not trigger it. Separately, your account automatically signs all the way out after a period of real inactivity, regardless of whether you ever used the PIN lock.

Yes — from Account > Security you can enable authenticator-app-based 2FA (TOTP). Once enabled, signing in requires your password plus a time-based code from your authenticator app. This is separate from, and works alongside, your PIN.

Sticky Notes support rich text with clickable hyperlinks, checklists (with drag-and-drop reordering — checked items automatically move to the bottom, and pressing Enter inside a checklist item moves any text after your cursor to a new item below), embedded images, freehand drawings, and voice/audio recordings. Notes can be viewed in a compact, list, grid/tile, or full display mode.

Yes — open a note and use the full-screen editing mode to see and edit all of its text without the cramped card view, which is especially useful for long notes.

Yes. While viewing (not editing) a note, you can click-and-drag across text to highlight and copy it normally — this does not trigger the note's drag-and-drop reordering, which only activates from the note's dedicated drag handle/top bar.

Yes — LinkIT supports hiding specific text within a note (similar to a password field) so it displays as masked characters until you reveal it, without needing to mark the entire note Private.

Yes — each checklist item inside a Sticky Note can have its own attached picture. Click the picture icon next to an item to add one, click the thumbnail to enlarge it for a closer look, and remove it right from that enlarged view while editing.

By default, copying creates a completely independent duplicate — it gets its own content and its own edit history from that point on, so editing the original afterward does not change the copy and vice versa. Certain copy paths are instead explicitly synchronized/mirrored duplicates, where editing any copy updates every linked copy — the app tells you when that's the case.

Yes — the export button on a note (or a Sheet Notes section) offers Image (PNG), PDF, and Word (.docx). The Word export is a genuine .docx file generated by our server from the content you're exporting, so it opens correctly in Word, Google Docs, and other real document viewers — the content isn't stored afterward.

Private is a special built-in label. Applying it to a Page, Category, Link, or Sticky Note marks that item as sensitive and blurs it in the interface. Private items automatically re-blur after about 30 seconds of inactivity on that tile, and always re-blur when the app is refreshed or reloaded — so sensitive content isn't left visible if you walk away.

Yes — Category tiles have a dedicated "mark as sensitive" button in their own top button bar, which applies the same Private label and blur behavior as applying it from the Labels picker.

The Labels section (in the sidebar) is a dedicated place to view, create, rename, and recolor every label across your Pages and Journals. Labels are always sorted alphanumerically automatically.

Archive hides an item from your main view without deleting it — use it for things you're done with for now but might want back later. Trash is for items you intend to delete; trashed items can still be restored until you empty the trash, after which they're gone for good.

Yes — pages, categories, links, sticky notes, journals, tabs, and sheets can all be dragged directly to a trash drop zone to delete them, in addition to using the trash button in each item's menu.

Journals are freeform notebooks with their own colorable, icon-labeled tabs and sheets — each sheet can hold its own pages, categories, and Sticky Notes, plus a free-standing Sheet Notes area for writing directly on the sheet. It's a separate organizational layer from your main Pages, useful for longer-running projects or reference material.

Yes — the Sheet Notes fullscreen "writing mode" lets you choose a Letter or Legal page size and adjust margins, and the toolbar (shared with the compact editor too) supports font family, font size, and text alignment, in addition to bold/italic/lists/tables/links/images.

Yes — a sheet's Sheet Notes, Categories, and Sticky Notes sections can each be individually collapsed, and there's a "Collapse All" control to collapse every section on a sheet at once. Sections can also be reordered, and the entire Sticky Notes and Categories areas can be swapped via drag-and-drop.

Yes — categories and sticky notes can be copied both ways, from a Page into a Journal sheet and from a Journal sheet into a Page, in addition to copying between two Journals directly.

Yes — journals, tabs, and sheets support labels, archiving, and trash/restore through the same main Archive and Trash sections used everywhere else in the app, rather than a separate system.

Yes — pages, categories, links, sticky notes, and checklist items within journal sheets support drag-and-drop on mobile using dedicated drag handles.

Yes — a Journal sheet's free-standing Sheet Notes area supports the same Write/Draw/Voice modes and full-screen editing as Sticky Notes do.

Yes — the QR tool lets you generate a QR code from text/a link, or scan one with your camera to bring content into a note. It's included free on every tier, including Guest.

Yes — the Translate tool (Family tier and above) can translate typed text or spoken audio between languages and insert the result directly into your note.

An UltraHyperlink is a deep link within your own account to a specific page, category, note, or link — clicking one jumps straight to that item, and for a sticky note it opens directly in edit mode.

You can generate a public, read-only link for a page, journal, sheet, sticky note, category, drawing, or a combined "bundle" of several items shown together on one scrolling page. Anyone with that link can view it without signing in, until you revoke it from your own account. Revoked links stop working immediately.

Yes, if you're signed in on a Pro-tier-or-above account viewing someone's shared journal — a bookmark button lets you save that link (or a specific tab/sheet within it) so you can find it again later from your own account.

Yes — a shared journal shows a sticky hamburger menu listing every tab and sheet so a visitor can jump straight to any section instead of scrolling through the whole thing.

Use Export to download a backup file, and Import to restore from one — both are simple download/upload actions with no extra steps. Before an import, LinkIT automatically downloads a fresh safety backup of your current data first, so you have something to fall back on if the import doesn't go the way you expected.

A direct Import replaces your current data with the backup file's contents (after first auto-downloading a safety backup of what you had). If you want to combine data instead of replacing it, use the multi-device Sync/Merge tool, which gives you a review step to catch potential duplicates before anything is finalized.

On signed-in tiers, your data syncs automatically to your account. For combining data from multiple devices that have diverged (up to 14 devices), the Sync/Merge tool walks you through a review step to spot potential duplicates or unwanted data before applying the merge.

Yes, optionally — connecting Google Drive lets LinkIT back up your data to your own Drive account using a narrow, app-restricted scope that only touches files LinkIT itself creates. This is in addition to, not instead of, the automatic account sync every signed-in tier already has.

The Root Owner can turn these app-wide feature flags on or off for everyone, including Guests, from Account > Feature Flags. If you don't see them, ask your Root Owner whether they're currently enabled.

LinkIT stores data primarily in your browser's IndexedDB, which has a much larger practical capacity than older browser storage — enough room for a large library of notes, images, drawings, and audio. A storage indicator in the sidebar shows an estimate of how much you've used versus what's available on your device.

Use the search bar in the sidebar to find pages, categories, links, sticky notes, and journal content by keyword, without having to browse to each one manually.

As a Guest or on the free Lite tier, everything lives only in your browser's local storage on that device — it never touches our servers. On Pro tier and above, your group's content is also stored in a database we operate (currently Neon/PostgreSQL) so it stays in sync across your devices and group members, in addition to any Google Drive backup you separately enable.

For Guest/Lite accounts, your data never leaves your device, so the realistic risk is local — someone with access to your unlocked device or browser profile, or a tampered backup file you import. For synced accounts, we use hashed passwords/PINs/2FA codes, encrypted database connections, and scoped session cookies to reduce risk, though we intentionally don't publish exact technical defense details, since that mainly helps attackers rather than users. Use your device's screen lock, LinkIT's own PIN lock, and 2FA to protect your account.

Only the specific image, audio clip, or text you submit for that one action is sent to our AI processing provider (Google Gemini) to generate the result — nothing else in your account, and nothing is retained by us afterward. The same is true for the Word (.docx) export: only the content you're exporting is sent to our server briefly to generate the file.

Only the narrow, app-restricted scope that lets LinkIT read/write files it itself created in your Drive — not your general Drive files, Gmail, contacts, or anything else. Your access token stays in your browser session and is never sent to or stored on our servers.

Anyone who has the link — that's the intended design, so it works without requiring the viewer to sign in. Treat a share link like a password: only send it to people you want to see that content, and revoke it from your own account once you no longer need it shared.

Yes — dark mode is the default, with a light mode toggle available, and the interface is optimized for mobile phone screens, including larger, always-visible buttons on note and category tiles rather than controls that only appear on tap.

Yes — LinkIT can be added to your home screen as a Progressive Web App (PWA), letting it run in its own window and launch like a native app. On Android, this also means the app can be backgrounded and resumed properly, including your PIN lock state, which persists even if the app's background process is closed by the operating system and later relaunched.

Use "Contact Builder" in the sidebar, or email apexhit00@gmail.com — see the Legal Center for full contact details.