I’ve had the honor of being interviewed by Josh Holtz for Indie Dev Mondays about life as an indie developer, and my app Yoink.
Also interviewed in this issue: Antoine van der Lee, developer of the app RocketSim and lead of mobile development at WeTransfer.
The following explains how to use Yoink on iPad in Slide-Over or Split View.
For more Usage Tips like this, click here.
It seems quite a few people have been getting new iPads recently – to those, I say: congratulations on your purchase 🥳
Coincidentally, that’s probably why I’ve been asked quite frequently lately how to use Yoink in Slide-Over or Split View.
Here’s a quick guide on how to do it.
– With a full screen app open, swipe up from the very bottom of your iPad to reveal the Dock
– Drag Yoink from the Dock to the side of your iPad’s screen
In Slide-Over, you can reposition Yoink to either edge of your iPad’s screen, or dismiss it by dragging it all the way to the right.
– With a full screen app open, swipe up from the very bottom of your iPad to reveal the Dock
– Drag Yoink from the Dock to the top right of your iPad’s screen
– Alternatively, If Yoink is already in Slide-Over, drag the its top horizontal indicator to the top right of your iPad’s screen, and it will enter Split View.
In Split View, you can adjust the size of each Split view app by dragging the indicator between them.
You can remove an app from Split view by dragging the top horizontal indicator of the app.
Apple’s iPad User Guide
Use Multitasking on your iPad
Open an app in Slide Over
The following explains how to make Yoink automatically pick up any new file added to a specified folder.
For more Usage Tips like this, click here.
If you’d like Yoink for Mac to automatically pick up any new files you download or save into a specific folder, here’s how it’s done.
Automator, an app that comes with every Mac, allows you to create Folder Actions, which are small programs that run every time files and folders are added to a folder you specify.
I’ve prepared such a Folder Action for you: Download (direct download, ~42 KB)
Choose the folder you’d like to attach this action to and click on Install. The action will then be moved to /Users/yourname/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions/Yoink Save Folder.workflow
If you ever wish to uninstall it, just delete that file.
If you’re curious about what the Folder Action actually does, it’s this:
The action runs this shell script
open -a Yoink “$@"
any time new files or folders are added to the specified folder, which instructs macOS to open the specified file with Yoink (which ultimately results in the file being added to Yoink’s list).
You can edit the shell script anytime (by right-clicking onto the Automator file and selecting Automator):
which would enable you, for example, to tell the action only to add files of a certain file type, or with a certain file extension.
The following script sample shows how to make the Folder Action only add PDF files:
for str in "$@"
{
filename=${str##*/}
pathExt=${filename##*.}
if [ $pathExt == 'pdf' ]
then
open -a Yoink "$str"
fi
}
Enjoy 🙂
Since I’ve had to go re-watch WWDC20’s “Adopt the New Look of macOS” session (at around the 07:03 mark), I thought I’d note it down here – for anyone else late to the update-for-macOS-Big-Sur-game 😉
What we want to achieve is go from this UI (basically standard on any macOS before Big Sur):
to this UI (new UI for Preferences windows on macOS Big Sur):
And it’s fairly easy to do so. All you need to call is (pardon the Objective-C, Yoink for Mac (and iPad and iPhone, for that matter), is still 100% Swift-free..)
self.window.toolbarStyle = NSWindowToolbarStylePreference;
and update your toolbar items’ icons, and you’re all set.
