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- [Don] Hi, this is Don McAllister
and welcome to another ScreenCasts Online
weekly tip video.
In this week's tip, I take a look at a free iOS application
that allows you to take full control of drag and drop
on the iPad using iOS 11.
And that application is called Gladys.
Now if we just go across to the App Store,
this is Gladys across on the App Store,
one of the issues with drag and drop on iOS
is the gymnastics required to drag content
between multiple applications.
And Gladys acts as a shelf application
that allows you to drag content
onto it for future use.
Now let me just quickly open Gladys.
I've not installed the in-app purchase as of yet,
so it is limited to 10 items that it can contain,
but it's a very inexpensive in-app purchase,
I think it's 99 cents or 99 p for unlimited items
on the shelf.
Now as you can see, it will run in full screen,
but I've found it better if we come out of here,
you can run it, let's go into photos,
you can run it, if I just pull the dock up,
you can run it as a split-screen application
on either side, but I found it to be better
as a slide over panel and then it's available to me
no matter which application I'm using.
Let's say, for instance, I'm working in my photo library
and then I remember I've promised to send someone
a photo of one of the cats.
So if I just touch and drag this image,
now I could navigate my way to the Messages application,
but I could just drag it across to Gladys
and leave it there and then act on that later.
Well, let's say I wasn't sure which photo I wanted.
I can drag another photo, pull that down,
then tap these other photos,
so I've now got an extra three photos,
drag them across, let go and then once they're stored
in Gladys, I can just swipe across and get on
with my work and then later on, oh yeah,
I want to send those cats off to somebody.
Go into Messages, swipe across and there are
the four pictures of the cats.
Let's say I want to send that one.
Drag, drop and that's now ready to be sent.
Well, let's say I'm in the mail application
and I want to bookmark this email.
I can swipe across.
I'll just touch and drag the email and drop it
directly into Gladys.
Well, let's say that I want to select
the contents of this email.
If I touch and hold.
And we can drag down, grab the image as well,
we'll grab that first bit, then touch and hold.
And then pull Gladys across from the side
and drag that on there.
That's some text snippets and an image I have captured.
Now if I go to the home screen, let's say I'm working
in the Reminders application and then I remember
I want to reference that email,
I can just slide across, tap on the email
and we'll talk about the contents of Gladys,
but if I just tap Open, that will go ahead,
open the email application and take me directly
to that particular email.
Now let's have a look at some other examples
of dragging stuff in.
Let's have a look at Maps.
If I got to Maps.
Let's create a draggable object, I'll tap and hold
on New York Pizza Kitchen and drag
and then bring out Gladys, swipe across
and then drag this and drop it onto Gladys.
Now that map object contains much more information
than just the map reference.
In fact, let's take a look.
If I tap to open up the object,
you'll see it contains many, many different elements.
So the map item itself, electronic business card
or the contact information that's contained
within the dragged clip, a public URL,
the rich text, some rich text with attachments
and then just plain text as well.
And we can access any of these individual elements
and do as we want with them.
But say for instance, if I just wanted to have a look
at the electronic business card,
just tap on this little eye
and that displays the information
for that particular venue.
That's not a particularly good example.
Let me try another one.
Let's try the San Francisco Hotel.
If I drag and drop that in there
and then tap to open.
Now I have a look at the electronic business card
for this one.
That's better, there's more information
contained within there.
And I can use this to send it off to Contacts
if I wanted to or send it to a message, et cetera.
But let's just come back out of here.
Now with this object stored on my Gladys shelf,
I can do some other things as well.
I can add a note.
I can add a label, so I want to label this as "hotel".
I can add additional labels if I want to,
but we'll leave that for now.
If I want to delete items from here,
let's say at this URL, if I wanted to delete it,
I could swipe across, say "delete".
I'll leave it in for now.
The little magnifying glass next to each item
allows you to see the Hex value or the ASCII value
of that data.
Probably not something that most people will need to use,
but it's there if you do need to.
And then down at the bottom, I can delete the object,
I can copy to the clipboard.
I can also access a share sheet from down here as well,
but we'll say "cancel" to that for now.
And of course, if I tap Open, that will take me
directly to that map location
in the Maps application itself.
Let's just copy one more thing over.
Let's goes across to, let's say, Notes,
so if I'm in Notes and I have this option here,
I could either copy the entire note or just this graphic
or this image rather, I could start to drag it,
bring Gladys out and then drop it at the top.
And if I open this up, I can see I have some binary data,
but those is a JPEG image, so I can drag that image out
to any other application.
But we'll just say "done" to that for now.
So across the top, we can edit our contents.
If I tap on Edit, if I want to delete something,
I can just select, say, one of these or a couple of these,
just tap them and then say "delete two items".
I can also set a filter, so you'll see I set a label
before for "hotel".
If I tap on "hotel", I just see that one item
with the label "hotel".
So you can use this as a filtering mechanism.
Let's see.
All items.
I have the option to duplicate items on the shelf
and then access to setting.
So from here, you can both import an existing library
or export your current library as a zip file.
You can also switch on iCloud Sync,
so if you do switch on iCloud Sync,
we'll just say "proceed", that's now going to sync
with iCloud and now when I go to my iPhone
or any other iOS device that has Gladys installed,
it should synchronise automatically.
There is also an options button.
The two main ones I'd want to point out to you
are the third one down, "Remove items that are dragged out",
so if you don't want to keep a permanent library
of items, you can switch this on
so that as you drag items out,
they are deleted from the shelf.
And then also down at the bottom,
"Display notes in main view".
If I tap that and switch that on and then say, "done",
you'll see down at the bottom
that San Francisco Proper hotel,
the map object that we dragged in before,
I added the note "Stayed in 2018", that's now displayed
on the main screen.
So let's finish off by having a quick look on the iPhone.
So this is Gladys installed on my iPhone 8 Plus.
I've already synchronised with iCloud.
And there's support for 3D Touch, allowing me
to share Gladys, paste and search and also options
to look at the top entries in my Gladys library.
So if I tap on, say, the photo, that's now copied
to my clipboard.
If I go into something like Notes
and create a new note, I can, well, I should be able
to paste, there we go, paste the image in.
We'll say "done" to that.
Drag and drop is limited with Gladys on the iPhone
because of the limitations of drag and drop
on the iPhone itself, but if we go into Gladys,
you'll see we get the full synchronised library.
I can tap in, I can have a look
at all the different data elements
and copy these to the clipboard or access them
via the share sheet, et cetera.
I can also open, so if I tap Open
that will open the maps.
Takes me directly to that reference.
Let me go back into Gladys again.
And if I reference the email that I copied over before,
let me just tap here.
Again, I can see all the information.
I can say "open" and that takes me
directly to that message in Mail.