Data Jar

Data Jar

By Simon B. Støvring

  • Category: Utilities
  • Release Date: 2020-04-14
  • Current Version: 1.0.15
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 8.85 MB
  • Developer: Simon B. Støvring
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Score: 4.9177
4.9177
From 243 Ratings
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Description

Data Jar is a data store designed to be used with Shortcuts. The data store lets you persist key-value pairs. If you have used dictionaries and lists in Shortcuts, then you’ll find that the data format used by Data Jar is very similar. - Extensive support for Shortcuts, enabling you to read and update data directly form Shortcuts. - Store text, numbers, booleans, lists, dictionaries and even files. - Files are stored in iCloud Drive and can be accessed from the Files app. - Take backups of your data from the in-app settings. - Support for multiple windows and drag and drop on the iPad. - Synchronisation between devices using iCloud. Data Jar is free to use but contains a tip jar where users can pay a few bucks to support the developer.

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  • I can’t believe this is free!

    5
    By Gcrtc2018
    This app is amazing, so so useful in conjunction with the shortcuts app to manage global variables.

  • Best app for shortcuts

    5
    By jonnyboy1394
    This app is very useful with shortcuts It is free and It’s easy to use problems: When I try to access an index value it gives a error

  • Amazingly Useful

    5
    By shaolin108
    At first, I didn’t see the benefit and usefulness of Data Jar. However, once I started doing more with Shortcuts I quickly discovered it’s amazing potential. I use it to store Data for quick access, almost like a database. I also use it to start flags and timestamps so I can check the status of various things in my Shortcuts or when something last happened. It’s awesome for power users of Shortcuts.

  • Works Perfectly

    4
    By 00PT
    Just spent a day trying to figure out how to use JSON and iCloud drive to save persistent data, only to figure out the default method doesn't work on Apple watch. This app makes me look really stupid. My only gripe is that it doesn't allow device specific variables, which is what I needed. The way I did it was too save the file based on the device name, creating a separate file per device.

  • Feature Request

    5
    By asentientai
    This is a great app and I’ve used it for months now in Shortcuts. It really unlocked the potential for me to make a rename files shortcut. I wish there was a way for to create a Data Jar dictionary right from Shortcuts, if there isn’t already.

  • Should be built in it's that good

    5
    By luckman212
    Amazing once you figure out how to use it! Opens up LOTS of advanced possibilities. Cheers guys!

  • Amazing app ... but

    4
    By id7xyz
    It’s an amazing app but one thing is bothering me created a shortcut that take whats in my clipboard and saves to Datajar but it saves as rtf not txt nor md who uses rtf

  • Great Start

    4
    By os4
    Wonderful and unique. Need more query functionality to be practically useful.

  • Adds easy-to-read pass-by-reference to Shortcuts

    5
    By Between Two Parks
    Because Data Jar adds terse persistent global store to Shortcuts, it enables local scope and pass-by-reference. Do you need a struct initialized with a half-dozen values which need to be set at runtime? Write a Shortcut that takes a name as input, does the necessary lookups and calculations, saves the results to the passed in name, and exits with success or failure. Boilerplate code can live in its own Shortcut. This is great. Also: if you are wondering how to delete a key from a dictionary, use “Delete Value.” In JSON, a key without a value is not a key. Look at RFC-4627 section 2.1. If you want a key with a null value in JSON, your choices are true, false, and null.

  • 🍯 So simple and so useful 🥳

    5
    By SeriouslyDave
    For years, I’ve been sticking Shortcuts data in all sorts of places - Files, Reminders, etc. And, yeah, they worked, but not always well and they tended to make my Shortcuts more complicated than they needed to be. First thing I did with DataJar was write some new Shortcuts I’d been thinking about. It was so much easier. And, I really like being able to tweak my saved data easily in the DaraJar app. I’ve now written an old Shortcut to take advantage of DataJar. I’m happy. Tipped! :)

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