Gladys

Corrects an issue that could cause data components to be listed multiple times

• This is a performance-focused release, featuring extensive work on sync search and data processing improvements, various quality-of-life implements and bug fixes, as well as creating the groundwork for future updates.
• Ability to mark items to display with a specific colour.
• New App Intents to allow copying an item to the clipboard or deleting an item.
• Delete key will delete the selected item.
• The minimum iOS version supported is now iOS 15.
• Watch app has been re-implemented with better technology so it is faster and a little nicer.
• Mirroring has been removed as a feature. A replacement is being worked on.
• Gladys is now an open-source project to fork, tweak, fix, or contribute to! You can find the link in the “About” section.

New in 1.6.8:
• This update corrects an issue related to detecting the app moving to the foreground in iOS.

This update features another round of cleanups and performance improvements. There will be a few over the near future to help Gladys get into shape for new tech and features. This update features compatibility improvements for iOS 16.1 and wew app intents which correspond to the same actions that are available via x-callback-url, making automation hopefully simpler.

This update features another round of cleanups and performance improvements. There will be a few over the near future to help Gladys get into shape for new tech and features.

• Performance improvements to item selection, sync prep for large libraries, and data caching
• Corrects an issue where the action extension could hang if used while Gladys isn't running
• Support library updates
• Tweaks to help improve sync notifications from iCloud
• Improvements for Watch sync
• Various bits of spring cleaning

• Performance improvements to item selection, sync prep for large libraries, and data caching
• Support library updates
• Tweaks to help improve sync notifications from iCloud
• Improvements for Watch sync
• Various spring cleaning

* Corrects an issue which broke layout when Gladys was in the background for an extended period of time.
* Corrects landscape layout on latest devices.
* Corrects an issue which would fail to update “recently added” and “items with no labels” sections when items are added from empty.
* Minor performance improvements.

Workflow improvements
• You can now select between 2 label display modes; the classic view, and a grouping mode where items are grouped by their labels (or lack thereof). Each section can be collapsed or expanded, and each section can show all the items as a grid, or a scrolling carousel instead. Dragging an existing item between label sections re-assigns the related label. Dragging a new item into a specific label area assigns that label. On iPad, drag a section header to the side to open a new Gladys window with that label.
• Menus in the edit mode’s toolbar are now rendered using native iOS menus instead of action-sheets.
• New “Recent items” label that automatically filters items added in the last 24h.
• Labels for items can now be removed using swipe-to-delete again, although the menu option remains.
• Action extension “notes & label” workflow streamlined, so that if you have this option enabled you don’t have to manually open that view, and you can chose the labels and enter notes while the item is being imported.

iOS 15 specific feature support
• Improved keyboard navigation with support for native focus, selection, and tabbing in both the main view and the various dialogs, as well as space-to-quicklook. This replaces the custom keyboard hacks to support scrolling and paging in iOS 14 and earlier.
• Pinch-to-preview, using the new prominent centre window presentation, which can be minimised, closed, or docked to the side as required.
• Less cluttered item info windows.

Code optimisations, and built with the iOS 15 SDK toolchain for performance improvements and latest iOS device support.

• Option to transcribe speech from dragged-in media items.
• Option to badge app icon with the number of items in the last-used window.
• Siri options for items look a little tidier now.
• This version and onwards requires iOS 14, in order to keep app and memory footprint to a minimum and take advantage of the latest OS features.
• Bugfixes and performance optimisations throughout.

This update corrects an issue with sizing info windows on iPad, as well as an option to explicitly select inline display for items dragged to apps that support inline displays.

• Minor optimisations and stability improvements.

• New “Open” and “Share” actions in data component context menus, where applicable.
• VoiceOver improvements for when an initial iCloud sync occurs, reporting sync progress, and fix for iCloud sync options panel.
• Added safeguards to prevent potential data corruption when using file mirroring with items that have identical names.

• Added an icon in info views that presents the item's context menu.
• Corrects an issue on iOS 14.2 which could cause a multiple-item import to hang while Gladys is in the foreground.
• Minor stability improvements.

• Ability to scribble notes on items on iPadOS 14 using Apple Pencil.
• Option to perform OCR on images dragged in. If text is detected, a new text component is created for the item.
• Close button now visible in all views of the “Add To Gladys” action.
• Option to apply ML options (detecting names / OCR / detecting images) to images that accompany URLs, and not only when adding plain images.
• Sorting by labels will place items without any labels behind other items with labels.
• Corrects a rare issue where Gladys on iPhone could get “stuck” in an info view when launched via a shortcut.
• Built with the latest toolchain and internal build improvements for better CPU and memory performance.
• Minor Watch app improvements to cater for changes in the latest versions of watchOS.
• Minor stability improvements to the Today widget.

• Going (even more) native: Gladys has always observed best practises in iOS and iPadOS UX, but this release takes this to the next level, introducing native dark mode, native context menus, support for system multiple selection gestures, and native SF Symbol icons. Scrolling via keyboard is improved, plus new shortcuts that cut, copy, duplicate, delete, open, and move-to-top.
• Multi-window support on iPadOS, together with persistence of search terms and labels per window, allows items to be transferred or copied between label sets, and individual previews and info panels of items to be detached and kept open.
• The Keep In Gladys action extension has been improved to be far more streamlined and allow Gladys to upload added items in the background.
• The File extension is retired in this version, but for those who like to access Gladys items as raw data files, a new File Mirroring option will create and maintain a file mirror of Gladys items on local storage. (Note that because of APFS, this does not require twice the disk space, as storage is shared)
• The label selector will now list the most recently used labels on top to make it faster to re-select them when labelling various items. Additionally labels can now be renamed on all items that they’ve been applied on. You can find this option in the context menu of the label selector’s entries.
• New options to let Gladys try to guess the contents of images, or names in the titles of imported items, via iOS’s built-in machine learning, and pre-generate labels for you.
• A simple keyboard extension to copy Gladys items into the clipboard, or tap to paste their title/text into your document.
• For advanced users, automatic sync can be disabled, so Gladys will only sync when pull-to-refresh is performed. Only recommended as a temporary setting though!
• Smaller download, faster launch time, more efficient memory use, and most in-app operations have been optimised for speed.
• A good selection of bug fixes, including various crashes and sorting issues.
• New tip section: Gladys is now completely free. If you’re enjoying using Gladys and feel like leaving a tip, you can do so from the “about” section in settings.

∙ Option to automatically convert web link text into full URL components.
∙ Option to disable x-callback schemes for very high-sec environments.
∙ Fixes for when pasting URLs between macOS and iOS.
∙ Improved handling when tapping on locked items and when cancelling out of Face ID or Touch ID during unlocking.
∙ Improvements to handling data to and from Mail in iOS 13.
∙ Improvements to handling of character encoding when checking URL link titles, and when archiving HTML from URLs.
∙ Various UI layout and stability fixes.

∙ Option to determine what action Gladys takes when an item is tapped: Info, Quick Look, Open, or Copy to Clipboard.
∙ Option to make label selection exclusive, rather than inclusive.
∙ Option to automatically archive web links when dropped into Gladys (don’t use if you have limited data!)
∙ New action to create items by using data components from inside Web-Archive property lists.
∙ Fix for a sync issue which could end up not adding labels and notes from the “Keep In Gladys” extension while importing an item. May also correct some rare occasions where a duplicate object is created when using the share extension.
∙ Compensates for Safari behaviour that could add two URLs when using the share extension.
∙ Ability to add raw data items via the URL mechanism - instead of “text” or “url”, use “base64data”. For example: gladys://x-callback-url/create-item?title=example.txt&base64data=RXhhbXBsZSB0ZXh0IGZpbGUuCg==
∙ Better support for text snippets encoded via other app extensions.
∙ File provider extension will now work correctly for very large collections, and is more performant.
∙ For very large collections, the Watch App will limit itself to showing the first 100 items to avoid burning battery and being a hog.
∙ Fixes to image preview support on future iOS versions.
∙ Built with the latest toolchain for performance and stability.
∙ Slightly faster launch speed, and general performance optimisations.
∙ Minor UI fixes and various bug fixes.

This update works around a recent iCloud issue which could lead to Gladys deactivating sync automatically in order to protect user data.