alt Hacker News> Most people I know e-mail files to themselves
It would be nice if that still worked. My resume exists in an iCloud drive, and I spent ten minutes on my phone trying to figure out how to attach it to a gmail message before giving up. "Copying" a file isn't even a well-defined operation anymore. (Or at least "pasting" doesn't always paste it.)
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genxy • yesterday at 6:10 PM
When you get stuck in a task like this, you realize that civilization will collapse with a whimper.
watermelon0 • yesterday at 6:16 PM
Sharing files between apps and file management in general on iOS is atrocious.
I assumed this was a solved problem before Windows 98 (first desktop OS I used), but Apple cannot get this right 28 years later.
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cyanydeez • yesterday at 8:13 PM
with llms, you'd think we could use email as a passthrough proxy
It’s literally: click the paper clip logo in Gmail, tap files, pick your file.
You can also just go into the files app, tap and hold, tap copy, go to Gmail tap and hold in your draft email, tap paste.
There’s other paths that work too, like hitting the “send to” logo in files and then selecting Gmail.
It’s really the exact same patterns I might use on a computer for the most part.