Paste For The iPad

In this video, we’re going to look at Paste for the iPad. Paste is a clipboard manager that you can use on your iPad. You can keep history of anything that you’ve clipped or copied, you can even play some in folders or pinboards. Let’s take a look at why paste is one of my favorite apps on the iPad. Let’s go to my iPad. Now before we get started, I am not affiliated with the developer at all, this was just one of my favorite apps, and I enjoy using it on a daily basis. It is a paid app, you do need to go to the app store to download it. So when I go over to the app store here, when you search for paste, you’re going to see paste a clipboard manager. This is the app that we’re talking about. And again, it is a paid app. It is available on the Mac, the iPad and the iPhone. So let’s take a look at why this is one of my favorite apps. Let’s go back over to my home screen. Now when you copy something on the iPad, or even on the Mac or the iPhone, what it does is it saves it to the iPhone or the iPad or the Mac’s clipboard, then what you can do is you can later paste that into something else that’s copy and paste. Well with the clipboard on these different devices, it can only save one thing at a time. And it doesn’t keep a history. So if you were to copy something, let’s go over to Safari here. Let’s say I was going to copy some text here, I just double click on the word tutorials. And I want to copy this.

When I copy it, it places it in the clipboard. Now if I go and copy something else, let’s go and just double click on Online here. And when I copy it, it replaces what I copied before. So now when I paste it is no longer going to paste tutorials. What it is going to do is paste on line. So it replaces what you’ve copied before, it does not keep a history. This is where paste the app comes into play one of the many features of it, it keeps a clipboard history. So then what I’m able to do is paste either what I just copied online here, or what I could do is paste tutorials. I can go back 30 days, I can go back in history for 30 days. So if I copied something from a few days ago, I could go back and copy that again and paste it into something else. And if you want to keep it indefinitely, you can paste anything that you’ve copied these clipboards into folders or pinboards. So now let’s see how this works. Now that we know what copy and paste does and the limitations on the iPad, let’s see how it works with paste. Now the first thing is, you do need to have paste running in order for it to work. The way that the iPad works is when you copy something, it copies it to the iPads clipboard, but it doesn’t necessarily copy that over into paste. That’s because when an app is in the background, it is actually not running into suspended unlike the Mac where you can have apps running in the background. So as an example, let’s go back over to my tutorials here. And when I copy this, and then I go over to paste, watch what happens. So I’m going to go over to paste here, you’re going to see it pasted it in there. It only pasted it in there when I opened up the paste app.

So it’s really a two step process to use copy and paste or the pasteboard on the iPad on the Mac, it doesn’t work this way, it just automatically puts it into paste on the Mac, even if it’s running in the background. But on the iPad, you have to actually open up the app. So again, let’s go back over to Safari. I want to copy this entire sentence here. I copy it. It’s in the iPads clipboard. It is not in paste yet. How do I get it into paste? Well, I just go over to paste here. And then it places it in paste. So again, it’s a two step process. Now there are ways of getting around this. What you can do is add paste as a widget. When I click on this, it’ll open up paste and put any contents into the paste app. It’s just like clicking on the icon here. So that’s one way of doing it. But you can also use paste as a split view or slide over when it’s used as a split view or slide over, it’s actually open. So then when you copy something, it automatically puts it into the paste app. So let’s see how that works. I’m going to go back over to Safari, we’re going to open up paste in a split view. So I go up to my three dots here at the top. We go over to split view in the middle. And let’s go and open up paste. So now I have paste on the right side and Safari on the left side. Let’s go and copy In this text here, when I copy this, watch what happens with paste over here being that it’s open, when I copy this,

it places it in Paste. It does this automatically because Paste is open. Now the way that I like to use this is as a slide over, right now I’m looking at this as a split screen, I want to have Safari open as a full screen. Well, in order to do that, let’s go ahead and close this, what we’ll need to do is open up Paste, we need to open it up as a slide over. So now I just go up under the three dots here. And then we go over to the slide over icon. It moves it over to the right, we can see it peeking out. And now what I do is I go over to Safari or any other app that I’m going to copy out of, I click on it. And now we have paste as a slide over. So now when I copy something, let’s go ahead and copy this complete here. Copy. And we can see it put it into the paste app because it is a slide over. Now being that it’s a slide over again, this is my favorite way of doing it, you can move that out of the way, all you have to do is just take these three dots, I’ve copied it, I no longer need it, I just take these three dots and I swipe over to the right, and it disappears. I want to copy something else. I scroll up, let’s say I wanted to copy this text here. And then I get my paste here. So I just moved my cursor over to the right or I can just swipe from the right we have my slide over. Now when I copy this, being that paste is open on a slide over, it puts it in there, I’m done with it, I go over to my three dots here, swipe over to the right. So that’s the basics of how we use paste on the iPad, we do have to have it running for the best experience, we can do this in a slide over or in Split View, I prefer to use it as a slide over. Once you do that, if you’re copying something, you can easily see a go right into paste because it’s open. Now what else can we do with paste? Well, we can take these little clipboards anything that we copy as a clipboard, and organize them into folders. So let’s go and open up paste again, I’m going to go to the home screen. And we’re going to open it up in full screen.

When you open up in full screen, you’re going to see we have clipboard history. So this is my history. 30 days of history here,

I can copy any one of these, how do I copy it? Well, all I have to do is just swipe over to the right. And you’re going to see copy, I can click on this, I can also just keep swiping over to the right, it just automatically copied it. When it copies it, you’re gonna see it removed it, it actually just moved it up to the top. So we just copied this, so just places it up at the top. And then I can also click on this and you’re going to see copy. And then I can long press on it. We have a menu that pops up and I can copy. So we have a number of different ways to copy anything out of our paste or clipboard manager. Once I copied I can paste it into another app such as pages or numbers or any other app. What else can we do? Well, I mentioned that we have pin boards. These are what I like to call folders. Anything that I placed in these pin boards here are going to stay indefinitely until I delete them. How do we move something into a folder. Let’s say I wanted to keep this link here. This is a useful link. I want to move it over into my useful links here. All I do is just tap and hold. And you’re going to see pin. When I tap on pin, I can move it to any one of the pin boards or folders. I can also click on it. We have our pin down at the bottom I tap on that. And from there, I can move it into any one of the folders. I can also share it. If I wanted to message this to someone I can click on it. And you’re going to see share. If I long press on it, I will also see the share when I tap on this, I can share it via Messages, Mail or any other way that the iPad shares it. So we can share anything that we’ve copied over the last 30 days. To view any one of our folders, we just click on it and now I can see all of the links in that folder. Works the same way I can swipe, I can long press and then I can also just tap on it. If I want to delete it, you’re going to see we have delete here as well. To create a new pin board. We just go up to our three dots here. This is where we have more and from here I can manage my pin boards, which allows me to create a pin board I tap on the plus. I can reorder these by moving these three lines around.

I can delete any one of the pin boards by tapping on the red circle. To change the color I click On the color here, and I can name it, rename it, or change the color. So that’s how we manage our pin board. So when we’re done, we just go to done here. And now we’re back at our paste. We also can share this as an extension. Now, this works a little bit differently. But let’s go back over into Safari here. And what I want to do is copy this web page link. To do that, we just go up to our share icon. But what I want to do is I want to share this with paste. Well, if we click on this or tap on it, you’re going to see my different applications here that I can share with, If we swipe over, you’re going to see I have paste. When I tap on this, it’s going to share that link, so I can name it. So this is Dan’s tutorials. Spell it right here. And then I tap on Add, and it just added that as a link. So now when I go back into paste, we can see when we go to my clipboard history, there is my link that I just added.

So I shared that link. I can also just add it directly to paste. Let’s go back into Safari here. And remember, when I went up to the share here, and I went over to share, I had a new window that popped up and I could name it, all I want to do is just share it to the clipboard history, I don’t want to name it, I don’t want to put it into a specific pinboard or anything like that, well, then what you do is you just swipe up, and you’re gonna see Copy to Clipboard history. When I tap on this, it just copied it to the pinboard historic clipboard history. So it doesn’t actually open up paste it just paste it directly into the clipboard history, so then I can use it at a later date. So that’s how we can use share extensions with paste. Now this doesn’t work. The share extensions up here do not work when you’re copying individual texts or individual items. In this case, it’s like sharing the web page. When I tap on this, I can share this web page with messages I can share with books. And then I can also share with paste and sharing the entire webpage. So depending on what app you have, you may see different results here,

it’s not going to copy what you have selected here. To do that, well you’ll need to do is select it, and then copy it. And then open up paste. Remember we have a two step process there. I can copy it here, but it’s not going to go into paste until I open up paste. The last thing I want to show you is we do have a few different settings, there’s not a lot with paste on the iPad. But let’s just take a look at the different options we do have. So I’m going to go back into paste here. And then when we go up to the more, you’re going to see we have settings. Basically we have three settings, we can copy on App activation. Remember how when I copied something and then I opened up paste it went directly into paste. As soon as I activated paste it went into paste. That is because this is on. So we want to leave that on to get the best results, we copy something we open up paste and it puts it into paste. Pretty simple. I can also copy on widget activation. Remember, I have the widget up here. When I activate this, it’ll copy that into the paste app. So we want to leave that on as well.

And then I can enable iCloud sync. Anything I copy here will also be on my Mac and my iPhone because paste is available on all three devices. So those are the different settings we have. There’s not a lot but there are three different settings there. Just so you know what they do. I’ll leave it off with a tip, what I like to do is put paste in the dock and here’s why. Let’s go and put paste in the dock first. I just drag it down here into the dock. Now I’m in an app, I’m going to go back to Safari, what I would like to do is copy this so I copy it. And then all I need to do is just go to my dock. Tap on paste and it’ll put it in paste it’ll open up paste, but it’ll put it in paste as well. So it gives you easy access. In addition to that, it makes it really easy to open up paste as a slide over let’s say I do not have it as a slide over I need to open up paste as a slide over.

Well, all you have to do is just bring up the dock, we go over to paste and when I drag this up, what it does is it puts it as a slide over so I just let go. And now to slide over so it’s in the when it’s in the dock it makes it really easy to add it as a slide over. I’m going to move this out of the way. Just swipe it over to the right. So that’s a look at paste on the iPad. This is one of my favorite apps. There are other apps that do similar things. It’s just that this one works pretty good for me. I like the feature set that it has, and it works really well on the Mac. It looks really good on the Mac as well. It does have a few limitations on the iPad but that’s basically because of the iPad OS limitation. So as soon as you put an app in the background, you cannot write to it. So you have to do is you have to copy something and then open it up in paste, then it’ll put it into paste. A workaround is to just open it up as a slide over. So that’s how you can manage your clipboard on the iPad using paste.