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The title is the beginning of the text, or the title and URL if you’ve copied a link or the name of the image file you’ve copied. It’s a set of nice rounded rectangles with a title in a blue bar on each block. Yoink shows you everything you’ve copied in what I’m going to call a block view.

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In a second I’ll get into explaining how to do that, but first let’s talk just about the look and feel of Yoink.

On iPadOS you have two good options to keep Yoink visible: Slide Over and Split View. There is a way to avoid the switching dance. Avoiding the switching back and forth between apps is exactly the reason to use a clipboard manager in the first place. You can open one app, copy, then open an app like Yoink and Yoink can immediately receive the clipboard, but it can’t do it without that dance back and forth between apps. I know this is for security reasons but not being able to do things in the background really makes clipboard managers kind of limited in their value. I’m not sure what compelled me to give it a try, but I realized recently that Yoink is available for iOS and iPadOS.Īpple makes it hard for clipboard managers of any type, including Copy ‘Em and Yoink, by not allowing these apps to receive input from other apps unless they’re both open at the same time. I tried for a long time to make it work for me and had very limited success so I gave up. Copy ‘Em is available for the iPad, but the way the apps are sandboxed from each other, it doesn’t automatically receive what you’ve copied.

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I love having a clipboard manager so much on my Mac that I really miss it when I’m on my iPad. It’s possible that if I’d seen the light on the entire concept of clipboard managers earlier, Yoink’s interface would have worked for me. I love to be able to copy several things one after another and then switch to the app where I need those things and just paste paste paste. Since that time, I’ve fallen in love with the entire concept of a clipboard manager, using Copy ‘Em as my clipboard manager of choice.

The big display has my dock on the left and there is no right edge because the cursor slides right off to the MacBook Pro’s display.

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I do most of my Mac computing using my MacBook Pro extended to a big display to its left. I also found that I don’t have a screen edge for Yoink to live on. I was super excited about trying Yoink, but for some reason, Yoink on my Mac didn’t really solve a problem for me. Yoink is also available in Setapp now so you can give it a try there if you have a subscription. I think the main idea is that you can stash a bunch of stuff and then switch to the app where you need said stuff and “yoink” the stuff back out.īart was very enthusiastic about Yoink and so I bought it for the small sum of $8 on the Mac App Store. Eternal Storms explains you can drag things like a file from the Finder or an image from a website over to the edge of your screen, and Yoink will slide out allowing you to drop them there until you need them later. The first one he talked about was Yoink from Eternal Storms Software.Īs Bart explained it, Yoink lives as a little shelf on your Mac’s screen and allows you to drag things into and out of that little shelf. Exactly four years ago today, Bart Busschots came on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about three of his favorite apps.

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