One tag, one job.

• The sticker does the work. A tap opens whatever was written to it. The other phone doesn’t need an app.
• Any phone with NFC. Many Android phones have NFC off until you turn it on, and older iPhones (7 to X) need the NFC reader in Control Center.
• You write it. Tilde for Android writes any of these in a few taps, for free: Cards → Write a sticker, then choose what it opens. On an iPhone, the free NFC Tools app writes a link.
• You can rewrite it. A phone rewrites the sticker through the plastic, so a tag can change jobs.
• Anything on a tag is public. Anyone who taps it can read it and copy what’s on it. Put on it only what you’d put on a poster.

The code on the booth’s tags: some of the booth’s tags have a QR code on the front. It opens Tilde’s page (taptilde.com), not what’s on your sticker. A tag you print yourself carries your own link in its code.

The booth’s giveaway tags are khaki on black, with each job’s icon on the back.

Link

A tap opens your website, your LinkedIn or any page.

• Android and iPhone: a tap opens the link. No typing a URL.
• Make one: add the link to a card on the Cards tab, then Write a sticker and choose it. On an iPhone, write it with NFC Tools.
• Keep in mind: use it for yourself too, as a physical bookmark for a page you open every day (see below).

Lives on: Tilde Card, Solid · Tilde Card, Two-Piece · Base tag · Premium tag · Special Edition: Retro handheld · Sticky note

Book a meeting

Tap to book time with me.

• Android and iPhone: a tap opens your booking page (Calendly, Google Calendar’s booking pages or any other).
• Make one: add your booking link to a card, then Write a sticker and choose it.
• Keep in mind: use a booking page that shows only your free times, never your calendar’s details.

Lives on: Base tag · Premium tag · Calendar · Stand Mini

WhatsApp

A tap opens a WhatsApp chat with you, with a greeting ready to send. No more “text me your number”.

• Android and iPhone: a tap opens WhatsApp on a chat with you, the greeting filled in.
• Make one: add WhatsApp to a card, then Write a sticker → WhatsApp.
• Keep in mind: the link carries your number, so anyone who taps it can message you.

Lives on: Tilde Card, Solid · Base tag · Base coin · Premium coin

Contact card

Tap the tag, save the contact.

• Android: a tap offers to save your contact card, if it fits the sticker.
• iPhone: iPhones open links from a tap, not contact cards. For iPhone users, use the Link tag with your website.
• Make one: Write a sticker → Contact card. An NTAG216 sticker holds a full contact card.
• Keep in mind: anyone who taps it gets your contact card. In Edit card, uncheck your phone number or email under What they save if you’d rather leave them off.

Lives on: Tilde Card, Solid · Tilde Card, Two-Piece · Base coin · Premium tag · Premium coin · Special Edition: Retro handheld · Sticky note · Stand Mini

Guest Wi-Fi

Friends over? They tap the tag and they’re online. No asking for the password, no typing.

• Android: a tap offers to connect to your network, and joins.
• iPhone: iPhones can’t join from a tag: they scan the Wi-Fi code on your phone’s Share screen.
• Make one: set up Guest Wi-Fi in Tilde’s Settings, then Write a sticker → Guest Wi-Fi (it’s named Wi-Fi if you’ve set up Hotspot too).
• Keep in mind: use your guest network, never your main one. Anyone with the tag can read the password.

Lives on: Base coin · Premium tag · Premium coin · Sticky note · Wi-Fi coaster · Tilde Stand · Stand Mini

Lost item

Found this? Tap to call the owner. For your keys or your bag.

• Android: a tap opens the phone app with your number filled in, ready to call.
• iPhone: iPhones can’t call from this tag yet: it’s for Android phones.
• Make one: in Tilde, make a card with your number, then Write a sticker → Phone number and pick Call.
• Keep in mind: never an address. Keys plus an address is a way in. A first name helps whoever finds it.

Lives on: Base tag · Base coin · Premium coin

Call my family

If your child loses their phone, whoever finds them taps the tag on their backpack, and your number is ready to call.

• Android: a tap opens the phone app with your number filled in, ready to call. No internet needed.
• iPhone: iPhones can’t call from this tag yet: it’s for Android phones.
• Make one: in Tilde, make a card with one parent’s number, then Write a sticker → Phone number and pick Call.
• Keep in mind: one parent’s number is enough. Don’t put on it the child’s name, school or address, or your own address: anyone who finds it can read it.

Share your number

One tap and your number is ready to call, or a new text to you, without saving a contact.

• Android: a tap opens the dialer with your number filled in (Call), or a new text to you (Text).
• iPhone: iPhones scan the code on your phone’s screen instead.
• Make one: Write a sticker → Phone number, then pick Text or Call.
• Keep in mind: the text starts empty, and Call only fills in the number: nobody’s phone calls you by itself.

The shopping list on the fridge

Tap the list on the fridge, and it’s on your phone. Coming in the next app update.

• Android and iPhone: a tap opens the list on a page, with tick boxes, and no app is needed. Your ticks stay on your phone; they don’t change the list on the fridge.
• Make one: make the list in Tilde, then Write a sticker to the Grocery list (see Home & desk). To change it, edit it in Tilde and tap the sticker again.
• Keep in mind: anyone who taps it can read the list.

Physical bookmarks

Flip to the tag, tap, and it’s open. A ring of thin tags works like index cards, each for a page you’d otherwise dig for: the parcel you’re tracking, today’s forecast, your gym’s schedule. These are for you rather than to share. Your phone rewrites a tag when the parcel changes, without a reprint.

The demo keychain: flip through and tap any. At the booth, its tags open things like these:

• a parcel’s tracking page;
• today’s forecast;
• a news front page;
• a team’s scores;
• a gym’s class schedule;
• a shared calendar;
• a booking page;
• parking nearby;
• live departures;
• train times;
• directions to a place;
• an email with the subject filled in;
• a playlist;
• a restaurant’s menu.

A tracking page can show your name and address on some carriers’ sites, so keep those bookmarks on your own keys.

With just your phone

You don’t need a tag at all: Tilde shares from your phone with a tap or a code.

• Keep a card for every room: a work card with your title and LinkedIn, and a socials card without your number.
• Remember who you met: Met lists every tap of your phone, with the time, the card and the event. Add a note, then go through it after the event.

Tilde for Android

• At the Tilde booth at Web Summit: take a tag from the boxes. It’s written for you there, in about 10 seconds.
• Print your own: coins and tags from github.com/tbutman/tilde-card.
• Or any NFC sticker: Tilde writes the same things to a plain round NFC sticker, or to a Tilde Card.