Welcome to the Drafts Action Directory. Drafts is a quick capture notetaking app for iOS. The Action Directory is a resource for iOS application integration and workflows, with ready-to-install
Ben Brooks: Lets take a normal scenario to see how iOS changes things. My wife and I have been looking at houses on Zillow. Typically, for me, that means [in iOS 9] a lot of copy and pasting, or other hijinks to get a satellite view from Apple Maps (I can do it in the app, but I like to see images hopefully taken at different times Im odd like that, but I have reasons). Its even worse when I wanted to drive by these places because I would constantly be switching apps and pasting in addresses. With iOS 10 this changes a lot, now Maps knows what house and address I have been looking at, and it prompts me to use that address in Maps. Now the workflow is: look at house in Zillow, move to Maps, and tap the address suggested. No copying and pasting, it just is there, and there without Zillow being updated for iOS 10. It was also crazy that the fastest way to get directions to the next event on your calendar, was by tapping the location field in Calendar, not from within Maps completely counter intuitive. Under iOS 10, this again changes, now Maps knows that the location is on the calendar, is your next event, and puts the address one tap away inside of Maps where it should have been the entire time. Theres a lot of little things like this, because for once iOS knows what the other hand is doing and its about time. This is one of the biggest reasons why I say that iOS 10 is going to be a tipping point because now iOS has tangible usability benefits over macOS. Limited still, yes, but significantly better in many ways also. I hadn't noticed that (yet) in iOS 10, and of course the next Mac OSX update (to become MacOS) brings some more cross-platform integration (such as the clipboard, and Apple Watch unlock). But iOS is definitely getting things Mac OS isn't.
Every year there's one or two iOS apps that really elevate the platform to a new level for me. In the early days it was Tweetbot and iThoughts. Then it was Evernote and Editorial, and Workflow. More recently, scanning applications like Scanner Pro or Scanbot have been tremendous new tools.
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Automating iOS: A Comprehensive Guide to URL Schemes and Drafts Actions MacStories
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iosWorkflows/app-store.md at master christopherdwhite/iosWorkflows
This is a collection of bookmarklets, scripts and custom URL scheme actions that help bridge apps and manipulate the data you can send between them. - iosWorkflows/app-store.md at master Christin...
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How to tweak your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch without jailbreaking | CONATH
Howdy! This is a very nerdy and complex post about how to modify your mobile Apple device using custom iTunes backups. This is especially relevant in a time when theres no jailbreak and thus