Data Jar 4+

Name: Data Jar
Rating: 4.9 (36 reviews)
Author: Simon B. Støvring

Simon B. Støvring

- 4,9 • 36 Bewertungen

- Gratis
- In-App-Käufe möglich

Beschreibung

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.
- 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.

11. Jan. 2022

Version 1.1.4

- Improves the stability of Shortcuts actions.
- Disables auto-capitalization and auto-correction when entering a text value.

4,9 von 5

36 Bewertungen

besser geht es nicht

genau das hat in shortcuts gefehlt und sogar das design ist toll 👌

Must have app with nasty bug which can result in data lost

Short summary: great app, 6/5 stars worth. But some bug can lead to a complete data lost, therefor only 4/5 stars.

Long story:
I stumbled upon Data Jar on reddit, cool solution for data storage for shortcuts. As first project I wanted to migrate an existing shortcut which currently uses a Bear Note for storage. Before migrating the main shortcut I created a shortcut for data migration, which runs into problems within Data Jar.

The data consists of a Bear note with >300 lines, esch line a json dictionary with 4 keys. The shortcut queries the note, splits the data by newlines and sets the DataJar value to the splitted list. Works fine, but DataJar shows the values for a short time and then loses it completely. It seems to be a sync problem, as the bug only manifests with some amount of data. Smaller tasks produce no problem.

Sad thing about the bug: I wrote an e-mail to support, no reaction.

There’s only one thing how this could become even more awesome:

If it would also provide means to work with SQLite databases, e.g. instead of writing into JSON containers or even text files, let me issue an INSERT statement on a database file. Then let me SELECT data, CREATE VIEWs, etc. The database files itself could/should be accessible via iCloud for easy backup or external manipulation.

Der Entwickler, Simon B. Støvring, hat darauf hingewiesen, dass die Datenschutzrichtlinien der App den unten stehenden Umgang mit Daten einschließen können. Weitere Informationen findest du in den Datenschutzrichtlinien des Entwicklers.