Two NOPE kits
A kit connects NOPE to something you already have and set up yourself: a Focus on your iPhone, or an NFC tag. NOPECUBE never creates an automation for you and never starts NOPE from a sensor, your location or your mood. You decide what a tap does, and OPEN is always one movement away.
These guides describe NOPECUBE 1.0, which is still being built. Some steps need features that are not in the current test builds yet, and none of them has been checked on a device. We will try every step on real iPhones and Android phones before 1.0 and correct this page where anything differs. The home page says where testing stands.
iPhone: a Focus with NOPE
In 1.0, both iPhone guides will also be in the app, under Settings > Connect NOPE to your iPhone.
iPhone does not let apps turn on a Focus. You can connect one through Shortcuts, so the Focus follows your choice.
- In the Shortcuts app, make a shortcut that turns on the Focus you want, and a second one that turns it off. Run both once to check them.
- In NOPECUBE, open My ritual, then Connect your Shortcuts. Enter the exact name of the first shortcut under When I choose NOPE and the second under When I choose OPEN.
- Slide to NOPE. NOPECUBE saves your choice first and then hands the name to Shortcuts. iOS may ask for permission the first time.
The ending shortcut runs only when OPEN closes a moment started on this iPhone. Undo restores your ritual only: it cannot undo what a shortcut did, so turn the Focus off yourself if you need to.
The other way round. A Focus can also prepare a ritual: Settings > Focus > choose a Focus > Focus Filters > NOPECUBE, then choose the ritual. While that Focus is on and no moment is running, NOPECUBE opens ready on that ritual the next time you open it. It never slides to NOPE for you.
iPhone: an NFC tag with NOPE
Use any NFC tag you own, such as a sticker on your desk or by the door. iPhone recognises the tag itself; NOPECUBE writes nothing to it.
- In Shortcuts, open Automation, create a new automation and choose NFC. Scan your tag and give it a name.
- Add one NOPECUBE action:
- NOPE or OPEN sets NOPE for your selected ritual, or OPEN if a moment is running.
- Set NOPE now only starts your selected ritual. If NOPE is already set, it does nothing.
- Choose whether iPhone should ask before it runs.
Setting this up is your choice to let a tap commit. If you open NOPECUBE within 30 minutes and before your next choice, it shows once that the moment was started or closed outside the app, with Undo. If your iPhone is locked, it asks you to unlock it first, for NOPE and OPEN alike.
Android: connect an NFC tag to NOPE
On Android, NOPECUBE writes the tag for you. You need a phone with NFC turned on and a blank NFC tag that can be written.
- Open NOPECUBE once after installing it, before you use a tag. Newer Android versions do not hand a tag to an app that has never been opened.
- In NOPECUBE, open Settings > Connect an NFC tag to NOPE.
- Hold the tag to the back of your phone until NOPECUBE says it is done. If it can’t write the tag, try another blank, writable one.
From then on, tapping the tag opens NOPECUBE and sets NOPE for your selected ritual, or OPEN if a moment is running. It counts as a deliberate press: NOPECUBE saves your choice first and then shows once what happened, with Undo. A link you connected to NOPE never opens by itself after a tap; NOPECUBE offers it once, and opens it only if you tap it. If NOPE Mode is available on your phone and you have set it up, it starts a few seconds later, so an accidental tap can be undone first.
If a tap does nothing on Android 16 or later. Android lets you choose which apps NFC tags may open. If NOPECUBE is not allowed, the app shows a note in Settings with a button that opens the right system screen.
What a tag holds
- On Android, NOPECUBE writes only an app link: a NOPECUBE record and the app’s package name. Nothing personal, no ritual name and no text you wrote.
- Anyone who reads the tag can see that it is for NOPECUBE.
- The tag is not locked, so you can erase or rewrite it later, and so can anyone else with an NFC phone. If a tap ever opens something other than NOPECUBE, rewrite or replace the tag.
- Tapping a tag never makes NOPECUBE contact a server. If NOPECUBE is not installed, Android may open its Play Store page instead.
- You don’t need the physical NOPECUBE cube, and we don’t sell branded tags. Any tag you own works.
When a tap counts
- A tap on your own tag is a deliberate press, because you set it up. Time, location, a Focus or opening an app only prepare a ritual. If you put “Set NOPE now” or “NOPE or OPEN” into such an automation yourself, that automation commits too, so add these actions only to automations you start on purpose, like your own tag. NOPECUBE never adds them for you.
- NOPECUBE never creates an automation and never starts NOPE from a sensor, your location, your mood or your usage.
- OPEN, Undo and deleting your data work the same way however NOPE started.
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