After I pin the file, I can drag it out of Yoink and into an email message as many times as I want, which is faster than digging back through layers of folders in the Finder. I’ve begun doing this with a few files I need throughout the day when I’m working with MacStories and AppStories sponsors. Once a file is sitting on Yoink’s shelf, you can pin it there. As soon as you drop the file on the Yoink drop point, it re-attaches itself to the side of your screen. You can even have a little Yoink window show up near your cursor as soon as the drag starts to minimize how far you need to move the file. Instead of showing up as soon as a drag starts, you can set Yoink to wait until your drag approaches the side of the screen where it’s docked. You can also customize when Yoink appears. I have it docked to the middle of the right edge of my screen, but it can be anchored to the left edge too. This is especially useful when I’m using an email client and haven’t begun composing a new message yet.Īs soon as I start dragging a file, Yoink fades into view. Instead of starting a drag and using Alt+Tab to find the app to drop a file into if it’s even open, I can drop it onto Yoink as a temporary resting spot until I find the destination for which I’m looking. If I need to send a file 1 to someone in Slack or attach it to an email message, those apps may be buried under several layers of windows, in a different Space, or may not be open at all. There are many days when I have a bunch of apps open across at least a few different Spaces. Yoink, is one of my favorite macOS utilities that sits just out of sight until I start to drag something. In fact, it’s a solution that has an even more direct analog than the Desktop on macOS that makes a solid case for implementing something similar on iOS: Yoink, from Eternal Storms Software. On the Mac, people use the Desktop as a temporary place to stash items all the time, and without a Desktop on iOS, a shelf that slides in from the edge of the screen seemed like a natural solution. I found the omission in the iOS 11 beta somewhat surprising. When Federico and Sam Beckett made an iOS 11 concept video earlier this year they included a shelf, which felt like a natural way to make touch-based drag and drop simpler. A Lot.At WWDC, I was disappointed that the iOS 11 announcements didn’t include a shelf where content can be temporarily parked. Think you're ready to add "finna" to your vocabulary? Here are five things I'm finna do this weekend, because that's obviously the best way to start using the term: 1. Most etymologists trace it back to a shortening of the very common Southern phrase, "fixing to."Julia Thomas and Timothy Grinsell, two linguistic researchers from the University of Chicago, published a paper of the proliferation of the phrase "finna" (as well as its similar cousins, "fitna" and "finta"), which actually claims that "finna" and "gonna" - as well as "bouta," which is short for "about to" - have historically had slightly different meanings, even though they are used relatively interchangeably today. It seems like everyone is saying "finna" these days, but the expression actually has its roots in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). For example, if you tell someone that you're "finna take a walk around the block," what you mean is "I'm going to take a walk around the block." "Finna" is an abbreviation for the phrase "fixing to." It is essentially used in place of the more common (and the more easily understandable) "gonna," which is short for "going to." If you're finna do something, you're going to or planning on doing it. And it actually has nothing to do with fish. Sometimes, though, I realize I've still got it - like last night, when my father asked me, " What does 'finna' mean?" This one's actually been around long enough that it was cool when I was in high school, so I could handle it. It's almost not worth keeping up with what the cool kids are saying these days, because as soon as you learn it, they'll have moved on to shorter, more complex abbreviations. Slang changes as quickly as fashion does (or as quickly as Heidi Klum claims fashion does on Project Runway): One day you're in, and the next day you're out.
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