Anybuffer

- Anybuffer Pro is now free and available for everyone
- Added the ability to export items to FIles
- Fixed occasional crash when pressing Add button
- Removed Automatic Clipboard monitoring
- Removed Today Widget

- Fixed: Keyboard switcher is not available on iPadOS
- Fixed: “Use Small Previews in Keyboard” is inverted

- Fixed: Anybuffer Keyboard is crashing in some cases
- Fixed: Widgets are not configurable

Meet updated Anybuffer for iOS 15.

Here is the list of things we've added and improved:
- Keyboard navigation, use Tab to switch between sidebar and items and arrow to navigate within a group
- New shortcuts menu on iPadOS
- Cursor band selection on iPadOS
- New extra-large widget size for "Recents".
- Quick note integration for selected shelf, selected item, and item in the preview.
- Open in new window for a shelf (opens new windows in split view) and for items(opens item preview in the center window)
- Updated thumbnails, including proper item thumbnails in Files app and "Recents" widget
- Delete confirmation dialogs
- Improved Search stability and speed
- Drag&Drop support on iOS
- New "Take a Photo" action
- New toast notification style

- New: Configure default shelf for Anybuffer keyboard
- Fixed: Exclude Tag filter is not working

This is a compatibility update for Anybuffer 2021.3 for macOS

This is a small, bug fix release:

- Fixed: Some items can't be deleted from the Inbox
- Fixed: When FaceID is enabled Files Provider, Custom Keyboard, and Shortcuts should not expose data stored in Anybuffer

We keep making Anybuffer more awesome, keep that feedback coming! Update for macOS is coming soon.

- Tags - a new way to organize things in Anybuffer, available for Pro users.
- Tagging in Import Actions
- Face ID - Secure access to Anybuffer.
- Set Default Shelf to open on Anybuffer launch
- Opt-In to Reader Mode for Links opened in Anybuffer
- New Shelf Icons
- Show Item Count for each Shelf in the sidebar
- Edit URL for links saved in Anybuffer
- Copy as Text action for text items saved in Anybuffer
- Enter Selection Mode from Shelf context menu
- Copy Shelf URL from Shelf context menu
- Significant VoiceOver Improvements
- Stable sorting by name, size, and kind
- Anybuffer logo for empty shelf is now dimmed
- Family Sharing for in-app purchases
- Items added through the share sheet may not appear in the search
- Icons in Smart Shelf filters are correctly tinted

Besides new features and small bug fixes in this release of Anybuffer we've fixed a syncing bug that affected a small number of users. These users shall see items that were not syncing before in the Inbox. There was no data loss, but a UI problem - Anybuffer wasn't showing some of the items synced from another device.

- New: Create Date item attribute, set automatically for items imported from Photos or Files (+ menu in Anybuffer). Available in the item Info panel and in sorting options.
- New: Ignore specific UTIs when adding item to Anybuffer
- Improved: Anybuffer keyboard honors selected shelf sorting
- Improved: Performance of adding a large number of items. We recommend add items in reasonable batches, i.e. if you want to add 50 photos do it in two batches.
- Improved: Performance when deleting a large number of items - “Delete All” or “Empty Trash”
- Fixed: Anybuffer would not display thumbnails for a freshly added item in some cases
- Fixed: Inbox may appear empty on the initial sync on a new device
- Fixed: Anybuffer keyboard will show Inbox on the first open even if Inbox is not selected to be available in the keyboard
- Fixed: Font selection dialog not working since 2020.16

- New: Save clipboard to Anybuffer from the keyboard
- New: Option to choose between “Date Added” and “Date Modified” when sorting by date. We’ll be adding “Date Created” in an upcoming release.
- Fixed: Unwanted Modified Date updates
- Fixed: Buttons in Info panel are not working on iPhone

Anybuffer now available on macOS, go check it out! It is free to download and if you own Anybuffer Pro on iOS or iPadOS - you have it on macOS as well.


Most of this release was focused on bringing Anybuffer to macOS, but we have some new features and bug fixes:


- New: Info pane now can be pinned to the right side on iPadOS, which is handy when combined with keyboard navigation.
- New: Compact layout for Anybuffer keyboard
- New: Choose shelves to show in Anybuffer keyboard
- New: New parameters in “Get Items Info” Shortcut: Fetch limit and item Kind filter.
- New: Rich menus support for Shortcuts. Anybuffer items will appear in Shortcuts dialogs with image, title and subtitle.
- New: URL Scheme. Refer to https://anybuffer.ameba.co/faq/ for more info.
- Improved: Search and Smart Shelf filter for Kind:Video now includes more video formats.
- Improved: Keyboard arrows navigation on iPadOS
- Fixed: Low-quality Inbox and Trash icons. Existing Anybuffer users should update the icon manually from Edit menu.
- Fixed: The sorting state would not change or save.
- Fixed: A couple of crashes in the app's internals
- Fixed: Scanning from Widget

Sorry for frequent updates in the last couple of days, when you move fast you sometimes break things… We are hoping to get on a more appropriate update cadence.

In this version:

- Fixed: Some custom app icons are not working
- Fixed: Compressing URL’s may create a broken archive (huge shoutout to @jGuru for helping us catch it)
- Fixed: Anybuffer may crash on start if “Auto Add from clipboard” is enabled and the clipboard contains text (kudos to Serhat Erig for helping us catch it)

Hotfix: version 2020.11 was submitted with a wrong developer toolchain which resulted in broken widgets.

- New: Improved GIF Support, GIF is available as a separate type you can use in Search and Smart Shelves.
- Improved: If “Auto Add from Clipboard” is enabled and Anybuffer opened on a Smart Shelf the item will be pasted to the Inbox
- Improved: Compressed URLs appear as text files
- Fixed: Keyboard showing preview only for text items. Don’t forget to “Allow Full Access” for Anybuffer’ keyboard.
- Fixed: Paste from Widget doesn’t work in some cases
- Fixed: Compressing all items in a shelf may create an empty archive
- Fixed: Shelves stay collapsed on iPhone and in compact mode on iPad
- Fixed: Smart Shelf can be created from Search without Anybuffer Pro
- Fixed: Seamingly random crash when opening Anybuffer after adding items with Share Sheet

- New: iOS 14 look and feel, including updated sidebar and dropdown menus
- New: Items can be marked as “Favorite” for later use in search and Smart Shelves
- New: Custom app icons, Pride icon
- New: Set custom font for text items thumbnails
- New: Opt-In one tap Share extension
- New: Open Shelf Widget. Opens Anybuffer on the selected shelf.
- New: Recent Items Widget. Opens Anybuffer and highlights selected item.
- New: Quick Actions. Opens Anybuffer with selected action.
- Improved scroll performance in shelves with many(>50) items
- New: Experimental Files app integration
- Fixed: if “Auto-add from Clipboard” enabled Anybuffer will read the clipboard while alive in the background. New behavior - Anybuffer reads clipboard only when on screen.
- Fixed: Smart shelf settings screen follows app’s accent color

- New: Smart shelf can filter by multiple text terms, i.e. show items with text “AAA” or text “BBB”. Terms should be separated by comma - AAA,BBB
- New: Full URL preview in item’s details
- Fixed: Add file to Shelf shortcut
- Fixed: App icon clipping

2020.8 is a major release of Anybuffer, which brings lots of new features and customizations as well as stability and performance improvements.

- New: Shelf icons can be colored, tint color available on shelf create/edit view. Shelf icon tint color can be set from an external app, like Pastel
- New: External PNG image can be used as a shelf icon. In shelf create/edit view use folder icon to open Files or just drop an image on the view
- New: Icon and name for Inbox and trash can be edited
- New: Drag and drop to reorder shelves
- New: Items organized according to its Kind and showed categorically, when sort by “Kind” is selected
- New: Select All from shelf’s contextual menu
- New: Select All keyboard shortcut CMD+A
- New: Multi-select with pointer - click and drag around to select items
- New: CMD+Pointer click to start multi-select
- New: Shift+Pointer click to multi-select range of items
- New: 6 colors app icon
- New: Filter by “Date Added” in search. Long press on search icon or type in key tokens( last:hour, last:day, last:week and last:month)
- New: One-Tap on Item to Copy. Tap on an item in Anybuffer copies it to Clipboard instead of opening it.
- New: Open Links in Safari. Tap on a link opens it in Safari, instead of the in-app browser.
- New: "Open in Safari" contextual menu option

- Improved: Reworked dark theme
- Improved: Search token for a shelf includes shelf icon
- Improved: Removed headers in settings
- Improved: Settings layout
- Improved: Item counts in filter view fit more than 2 digits
- Improved: Added additional padding for sidebar buttons for devices without FaceID
- Improved: Keyboard shortcuts now correctly handle multi-selection (i.e. select multiple items and press CMD+C)
- Improved: “Action on Tap” setting changed from toggle to explicit selector between “Preview” and “Copy”
- Improved: Apple's universal links (Books, App Store, TestFlight, Music) forced to open in Anybuffer
- Improved: Smoother animation for Search
- Improved: Better fallback for URL thumbnails for websites without proper metadata


- Fixed: Search details label clips on shelf icon in some cases
- Fixed: Auto-paste from clipboard can add duplicate items in rare cases
- Fixed: Keyboard may not show up in Anybuffer share extension on iPhone

No new features, just bug fixes and performance tuning:
- Today Widget clipboard preview improvements
- Fixed: Filter button clips on iPhone SE in some cases
- Improved text indexing and search performance

- New: Today Widget. Preview clipboard contents, add it to Anybuffer in one tap.
- New: Better Text Search. Text items content and URLs are searchable now. Before this version only item name was considered.
- New: Search only in selected shelves, available trough shelf's contextual menu or using operator in:[shelf name].
- New: Create Smart Shelf from Search. Press plus in accessory view, or use CMD+N keyboard shortcut.
- New: Spotlight. Search for Anybuffer items from iOS Spotlight.
- New: Keyboard shortcuts to cycle through shelves: CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB. Old CMD+] and CMD+[ will continue to work.
- Improved: Improved layout for iPad 9.7, and Slide Over in vertical orientation.
- Changed: Deleting Smart shelf should not delete it contents.
- Changed: Items in Trash should not appear in search results.
- Changed: New item kind icons in Filter view.
- Fixed: Setting custom name for an item through share sheet may corrupt the item.
- Fixed: Narrow sidebar shows and clips shelf name in some cases.

New Features in Anybuffer 2020.5:

- Wide Sidebar. See shelves names in a wider sidebar on iPad, enable in Settings -> Nitpicky Details.
- Custom Keyboard. Access Anybuffer items where you need it: Messages, Twitter, Safari, anywhere.
- New Gestures. Swipe left or right with one finger on the screen or with two fingers on the trackpad to switch between shelves. Swipe from the left edge to reveal sidebar.
- Search Improvements. Long press on the search icon to access search presets.

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

- Improved: added context menu to Add Shelf button
- Improved: replaced smart shelf indicator in the sidebar
- Improved: added FAQ link to settings
- Improved: added shelves icons and item kind icons in Smart Shelf view
- Improved: reduced memory consumption
- Improved: moved custom icon selection to theme screen
- Improved: changed sidebar toggle button image
- Improved: changed search image icon
- Improved: iPad pointer will snap to buttons on the item details screen
- Improved: more consistent items size between different window sizes and devices
- Fixed: shelves order in Smart Shelf view
- Fixed: sharing from Youtube app to Anybuffer
- Fixed: pull down to search show search on all active windows on iPad
- Fixed: Quicklook from search results dismisses search view
- Fixed: auto-add from clipboard can add duplicate items in some cases
- Fixed: typos, caused by app localization

- Revamped Search. New Search allows you quickly find items by kind and name. Now you can use contextual menu in search results. Pull down or use the shortcut to invoke Search.
- Improved Share Extension. Clean design, improved data handling.
- Pointer support on iPadOS. First class support of the newest iPadOS feature.
- Optional Tip Jar. Toss a coin to your app developer!
- Fixed: Shared iOS screenshot doesn't appear in Anybuffer

- Added Simplified Chinese language support
- Added Russian language support

The localization is not perfect, please reach out to us at info@ameba.co if you find any issues.

Version 2020.4 with bugfixes, more languages and new features is in works.

- Fixed wrong item thumbnail
- Fixed occasional wrong state for clipboard button

New Features in Anybuffer 2020.1:

- Smart Shelves. Browse items based on configured search criteria - item shelf, type, name or date added.
- Sketching Mode. Quickly sketch an idea and save image to Anybuffer, available in Add Menu "+"
- Edit Text. Modify text items without leaving the app, tap edit from item contextual menu

Improvements:
- Tap on sorting control second time to switch between ascending and descending
- New icons in the Settings screen
- Contextual menu now smarter about available options, i.e. "Compress All" only available if shelf contains items
- Share Extension better handles shares from Files app
- Share Extension activates in more cases and support more apps
- Anybuffer will occasionally ask for review
- Improved name detection for items added with drag & drop

Bug fixes:

- Item borders don't update with theme switches
- In dark theme, white line appears on the left side, when sidebar collapsed
- Show\Hide sidebar chevron has wrong orientation in some cases
- Navigation bar mismatch current theme in some cases

- Fixed crash when select Inbox on the first launch in some cases