Miscellaneous Observations From Copying and Pasting Various File Types Between my Mac and my iPhone Using the Pastebot Sync Utility You can sort, edit, add, delete, use, transfer, and more. And if you’ve got the Pastebot Sync utility installed, anything you copy on your Mac pops right into the Pastebot app while its open.įrom there it’s a copy and paste playground. Once running, whatever you last copied on your iPhone appears at the top of the Clipboard list. In my usage with a mostly-full clippings folder littered with text, images, and other paraphernalia, Pastebot loads (and pairs with my Mac) in less than a few seconds. Which is why the most important feature of Pastebot is launch time. On the iPhone however, you can’t run 3rd-party apps in the background. On my Mac, the key to a good anything bucket is its ubiquity - that at any time, in any application, you can throw something into it.
And Pastebot is the closest I’ve seen for this type of app. Which is why a clipboard manager is, in my opinion, a foundational functionality for an attractive, capable Anything Bucket app for the iPhone. But very few brag about their ability to capture bits of info from your iPhone…Īn app that auto-populates itself with the contents of your clipboard is surely the simplest way to throw bits of info into an app on the iPhone. And this is what most clipboard managers in the app store boast about: their ability to store text snippets for quick access.
At times it can be easier and quicker to copy and paste a canned response to a text or email than to thumb one out. Using a clipboard manager on your iPhone for boilerplate management is an obvious solution. That’s where I throw random bits of info, web clippings, text, images, PDFs, and more - some to be stored indefinitely, some to be deleted when I don’t need them anymore, and some which will no doubt be forgotten. Other than the clipboard history in LaunchBar, I have never used a true clipboard manager. Using and mastering Pastebot borders on entertainment. Later, when you find yourself in various screens within the app, little help tips will pop up to point out functionality. When you first launch Pastebot you are guided through a cute and succinct tour. To get the most out of it requires a minimal understanding of how the app works. Pastebot is more powerful and versatile than its siblings, and it comes with all sorts of tricks and surprises floating around. This third and most recent app, Pastebot, is perhaps the most useful and most delightful so far. Mark and Paul have taken three straightforward utilities and converted them into three delightful apps for your iPhone. The best way to describe the handsome apps from Tapbots is as half tool and half toy.
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