Yoink is a Mac utility that helps you boost up your productivity. With its help, you can easily copy and paste text content, files, and almost any type of Cocoa program data on your Mac computer.
The tool provides you with useful instructions, supports drag-and-drop actions, and immediately completes any given task. The first thing you need to do is to select a position on the screen and window size for the program's interface. There, you will drop the data you wish to get easy access to.
For instance, you can use this program to copy files from one folder location to another, import data in a utility that supports drag-and-drop actions, etc.
The only problem I had with the utility during its testing was that its main window occasionally failed to automatically hide from my desktop. Normally, when unused, the aforementioned screen disappears from your monitor. Still, this doesn't happen often and can easily be fixed by moving your mouse cursor over its main window and then remove it from the interface.
All in all, Yoink is a great solution for handling content on your Mac. It provides you with a simple and quick way to copy and paste almost any type of data, such as files, text content, etc. What's more, it comes with a very reasonable price.
v3.2 [Apr 27, 2016]
- Use Force Touch to: Select all files in Yoink, Show selected files in Finder, QuickLook a file (or split up a Stack), Pin the file in Yoink, Optional Haptic Feedback when entering Yoink's window with files.
- Shows a warning when files in Yoink are moved to the Trash in Finder.
- Reduce Motion setting.
- "Show in Finder" now supports more than one file, reflects selected files and files in Stacks.
- QuickLook Previews now remember their last position (i.e. the page in a PDF, or the playback position of a video).
- Text snippets dragged to Yoink can now contain images (thanks, Joseph O'L. for bringing this to my attention).
- Filepaths of files in Stacks or selected items can now be all copied to the clipboard.
- Performance and Resource Management Improvements: Accepting files, Dragging out items, Clear All items, Splitting up Stacks, Opening the "Open With" menu, less memory when watching for filename changes and deletions in Finder, and many minor ones.
- Yoink now reflects changes in the Finder's "Show all filename extensions" setting.
- Mails dragged from Yoink work again with all applications. To create an event in Calendar from a mail message, keep the option-key pressed as you drag the mail out of Yoink.
- When Yoink is shown on a different screen than the mouse cursor, the keyboard shortcut (by default, F5) summons Yoink to the screen of the cursor.
- UI Improvements: When a file is pinned to Yoink, the lock button whiggles when trying to remove it; When locking all files at once (by holding down the option key), all lock buttons show to indicate that all have been locked
Cleaned up contextual menu (instead of having another submenu, "Show in Finder" has a submenu for multiple files in a Stack).
- Updated Lock button icon to make it easier to see if a file is pinned or not pinned.
- Uses proper font for Asian text, updated localizations.
- Buttons now don't animate from the side and the icon doesn't animate away when the mouse enters so we don't have a moving target (thanks for your input, walkie1984).
- Improved efficiency for QuickLook.
- When a file is re-saved in Finder, Yoink updates its QuickLook icon preview.
- When a snippet is added to Yoink, it has a proper filename instead of "Snippet".
- Better handling of text clippings from Finder.
- "Combine multiple files into a Stack" now also works with files added from the Terminal.app.
- Accepts drags from the Mac App Store on OS X El Capitan and newer.
- The preferences window, About window and Splash Screen now all open on the screen the cursor is on.
- When editing the list of ignored apps, each row can now be clicked anywhere to select/deselect, not only the checkbox.
- Yoink's window is a little wider to allow for a little more text to be shown.
- Instead of file paths, Yoink now writes fileReferenceURLs to the pasteboard (like the Finder does).
- Added newsletter signup to the About and Splash windows.
- Numerous bug fixes.
