Sync Yoink Data & Best Shelf App?

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As long as someone brought up Yoink, I’m going to ask a question. When I first started using Yoink, I was coming from using Gladys as a file tray. It would sync across devices, so an item in iPhone would show up in Mac. When Yoink came along, I remember it would only be good for parking files within a device, i.e. to move something from one app to another. I remember writing the developer, and he confirmed this but he said he was working on it.

Has that changed? My need is not so much for a parking place for use within a device, but to get items from one device to another.

What’s the status of the shelf app world today?

Thanks.

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If you enable sync inside of Yoink then it can indeed sync files between your devices using iCloud.

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I might be wrong, but I guess there’s no iOS/ipadOS sync to the macOS version. It will, however sync between iPad and iPhone, but not to the Mac.

If you need to send a file to the Mac (or the other way around), you’ll need to AirDrop it or if you want to share a text string, then you can use the Universal Clipboard feature to copy it from one device and paste it into the other.

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What I really wish for is the functionality of Yoink and TextCase combined: A shelf app that can transform text and also that syncs between devices.

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Yoink’s sync options only work on iOS devices, not the mac unfortunately.

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That’s probably why I haven’t played with it much. Mostly I’m using it to move stuff within a single Mac - such as from Downloads to Applications (when a new Drafts beta comes out).

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Drafts should be able to do the text transformations that you’re thinking about

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Right. I use Drafts a lot. (And now you’ve said that probably Drafts is the medium to practice Markdown in - per the other thread we’re conversing in today.)

My take is I’ll probably experiment over the weekend with a shortcut on the share sheet that invokes TextCase and puts the result into Yoink.