Sharable, OCR-searchable, GPS-enabled, awesomeness. Movies (mainly backups of my DVDs or Digital Copies from my Blu-Ray™ collection), videos I’ve shot myself and video podcasts. The fact that the icon is a different colour than on the iPhone (where it debuted) or on the Mac (where it’s different altogether) makes it quite difficult for my visually-oriented brain to actually find this app I wish the developer would bring the icons into sync. Send all the web-based stuff you want to read later to this service, then read it at your leisure on your iPhone, iPad or on the web. Lack of clipboard-export support is as frustrating as with iBooks. Still, their book selection is excellent, and reading in the Kindle app is just fine. Amazon’s reader is kind of weird around the edges getting books into it is easy, actually, but totally any other iPad process I’ve come across. Inability to copy passages from books is not. Recent addition of Collections is welcome. There are no compelling reasons to replace these that I’ve seen. Notes apps - an entire folder full of note-taking apps.Safari, for those times I don’t need a secure log-in.Ideally, though, I want to run the same app on Mac/iPhone/iPad, otherwise it gets easy to confuse DMs, etc. I like trying lots of Twitter apps because there’s a lot of innovation going on in this space, and because it’s easy to jump from one to another. Twitter is my current Twitter client, though I bounce back and forth between it and Twitterrific.Apple’s Mail app is used far too often.OmniFocus has replaced Things as my GTD-based task management tool of choice on the Mac, iPhone and iPad.The closer to the bottom-left of the screen, the more-often it gets opened. Here’s my current home screen, with the most-frequently used apps in the dock. At $10, you may be able to find a clipboard manager for cheaper, but it’s hard to find one that gives you quite this much bang for your buck.Back in June of 2010, I published “ iPad apps: best I’ve found so far.” Time for an update. You can also search through your pasteboard history, blacklist apps from having pasteboard access, and configure the window to behave the way you want it. Pastebot also has a slew of other handy features, like iCloud sync between your computers, configurable keyboard shortcuts, and custom snippets. It’s pretty darn powerful, and you can not only add your own filters, but also import filters exported by other Pastebot users. But you can get much more complex: for example, it’s possible to add a shell script as a filter, so I dumped in John Gruber’s Markdown perl script, which means that Markdown text I copy-say even this column, for example-I can just immediately paste as HTML, without having to do anything extra. So, for example, if you had unformatted text that you wanted to convert to an HTML tagged list, it can do that. The app can take text on the clipboard and transform it behind the scenes, letting you just paste the end result. I use this pretty frequently not only for copying and pasting podcast episode info into the Six Colors CMS, but also for address info for the custom bookplates I send out.īut that’s only scratching the surface of Pastebot’s features, the most powerful of which is its filters. I particularly love its Sequential Paste feature, where you can summon a temporary queue of items to add to, and then paste them in the order that you put items in. But Pastebot has a ton more going for it. If all you want is to be able to have a history of your clipboard items or copy and paste multiple items, there are plenty of utilities that serve the purpose. That’s just one reason I use Tapbots’s Pastebot for Mac. There’s a benefit to the simplicity of that approach, but for many power users, it just doesn’t go far enough. The clipboard has been around since the earliest days of the classic Mac OS, but it’s always been more or less limited in one feature: it holds only a single item at a time.
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