Program an ia Writer Pro share sheet in iOS 10/MacOS

[jesse_the_k]

I write everything in Markdown with ia Writer Pro on macOS and iOS. Its only drawback is no share sheet. Can you use existing automation tools to provide share-sheet functionality? I will be happy to pay you in dollars, or DW points, or jewelry, or donation to your charity of choice. 

 

On my iPad, I've got Draft, Workflows, and ia Writer. I want to select text in a variety of iOS apps and send it to ia Writer Pro as if there were an ia Writer share sheet. (Apps I use often include Safari, Chrome, iBooks, Kobo, KyBook 2, Libby, Instapaper) 

 

I already have an "open in IA Writer" action for Drafts. 

 

The tricky part is: can Workflows reach inside Drafts to trigger the "open in IA Writer" action?

 

Comments

[green_knight]

If Drafts supports share sheets - which it sounds like - you might be able to enable the share sheet using the 'more' button; otherwise my understanding is that you cannot mess with other apps in this way.

Otherwise, it might be worth requesting this feature - enabling share sheets - from the developer.

Cannot experiment right now, my phone is bricked. Aaaaaargh!

So Sorry about Your Phone!

[jesse_the_k]

Yes, there is a Drafts share sheet, so right now there's two clicks:

1. on share sheet -- to Drafts, and what's shared is controlled by a Drafts template

2. in Drafts -- click "to iA" action, which opens in iA, deleting whatever was just in Drafts.

Darn.

Yeah, I've been bugging the dev for four years.