3.4.11   Importing From iOS

There are a variety of ways to import from your iPhone or iPad into the EagleFiler library on your Mac.

Importing URLs

When you’re viewing a Web page or app content that has a link, you can save the link to a cloud service:

• Safari Reading List
• Instapaper
• Pocket
• Feedbin Pages
• OmniFocus

When you get back to your Mac, you can then open the saved links and import them into EagleFiler in the usual manner or via script.

If your EagleFiler library is stored in iCloud Drive or another cloud service, you can directly save a Safari Web page into your library in Web archive or PDF format. Tap the Share button in Safari, then tap Options to select the desired format (PDF or Web archive), then tap Save to Files and choose the To Import folder or the Files folder for your library. Alternatively, you can save a bookmark file using this app.

For apps such as Ivory that can share links but don’t know how to create PDFs or Web archives, you can share and then tap Open Link to Post to open the URL in Safari and then use Safari’s share sheet as described above.

Bulk Importing URLs

Drafts can append URLs (using a Web Capture Template of [[url]]) to a text file in Dropbox or iCloud Drive. You can then import all the links at once by pasting the file’s contents into EagleFiler’s Import URLs… window.

Importing Files

If your EagleFiler library is not stored in the cloud, you can use your iOS device to save files to a folder in iCloud Drive and then import those files either manually or via a script.

If your EagleFiler library is stored in the cloud, there are a variety of apps you can use to create new files. If you save them in your library’s Files folder or To Import folder, they will be automatically imported to the library back on your Mac.

• You can use an app such as Editorial to create new text files containing whatever content you want, either typed directly or pasted from another app.
• Any printable content can be saved as a PDF file:
  • You can tap the Share button and then Save PDF to iBooks.
  • You can tap the Share button, then Print, then 3D Touch the print preview (or pinch to zoom out), then Share, then Copy to iBooks.
  • The Dropbox app has adds a Save to Dropbox action to the Share button that creates PDFs with screen-sized pages.
• The iOS Mail app does not have a Share button, but you can import mail messages by using the Print command to save them as PDF files or (on iPad) by dragging ang dropping the message to the Files app to save them in one of EagleFiler’s folders.
• Any app content can be saved as a screenshot.

Importing Photos and Scans

See the Import from iPhone Camera section of the manual.