Imagine that you could have one button on your iPhone that, say, opens OmniFocus and goes straight to entering a new task. Or one button that dials your mother. Send a description of a meeting to Fantastical in one tap.

And then imagine that it’s faster to just go to OmniFocus yourself, or to tap on your mother’s name or to start typing directly in Fantastical.

That’s what happened to me. LaunchCentre Pro does all this one-button lark and it is very impressive but it takes two buttons. One to launch LaunchCentre Pro and then one to do the thing you want. As fast as it is, as clever as it is, that’s two taps and I was finding that it is quicker to things directly.

Consequently LaunchCentre Pro vanished off my home screen.

But it comes back each time there’s a new version and each time someone finds a vastly cleverer use for it than I ever came up with. Now, MacStories has come up with a more comprehensive guide to using this thing than even the makers do.

I know I sound down on LaunchCentre Pro but I like the idea and it is cycling round to my homescreen again. I do still keep Drafts on there, which is a text editor that has similar functions and that can work well with LaunchCentre Pro. So I may be down on it, but I’d like you to be up on it so you can see for yourself. Read this first and very comprehensive guide.