The Shuttle
The Shuttle is the suite's shared tray for passing text and files between Zenith apps. Any Zenith app can drop something into it, and any other can pick it up. Zenith Calendar calls it "the suite's shared crossing".
Not a clipboard — a list that stays
A clipboard holds one thing and forgets it. The Shuttle is a list, and it stays put:
- Items stay until you remove them. Using an item never takes it off. Tap one to use it, and it's still there for next time.
- It carries text and files. A file can be of any kind. Its contents stay on your phone, with the app that hosts the Shuttle.
- It's one list for every app. What you drop in from the calendar shows up in the launcher, and the other way round.
- Very long words may not fit. Then nothing is put on. Zenith Calendar says "the shuttle couldn't take that — it may be too long to hand over", and Zenith Journal says "the shuttle would not take it".
Clearing it clears it everywhere
Because there is only one Shuttle, removing an item removes it for every Zenith app. Clearing the whole list empties it in every app at once, not only in the app you're using. The calendar says so before it clears: "the shuttle is ONE crossing, shared by every zenith app".
Where it lives
The Shuttle is kept on the broker — the suite's private shared shelf on your phone — by whichever Zenith app hosts it. Nothing goes to a server. See The Zenith Suite & broker.
Each app opens the Shuttle in its own way and offers its own things to do with an item:
| App | How you open it | What it can do with an item |
|---|---|---|
| Zenith Launcher | a panel that slides in from the right edge — opened by a Shuttle star on your home screen, a gesture you bind to it, or an optional corner button | use it, copy it, open a file with the app you choose, drag it into a Zenith app open beside the launcher, place it on your home screen as a star, add a file, let it go, clear all |
| Zenith Calendar | the "shuttle" button, top right | make a commitment from words, drag an item onto a day, keep a file in an almanac, send words to Zenith Tasks |
| Zenith Tasks | the rocket 🚀, top right, or settings › capture › "open the shuttle" — it rises from the bottom | make it a star, drag it onto the sky or onto a node, send words "→ calendar" or "→ mind", hand words to "✦ ask the sky", copy, remove, add a file with "+ add" |
| Zenith Journal | the "shuttle" rocket, top right (in compose, design and bring to life it sits in the top line), or Settings › "the shuttle" — it slides in from the right edge | "Use it here", which brings it into "something arrived"; drag it onto the sky for a new star, onto a slide, onto words in compose for a pop-up, or into an entry; copy; remove; put an entry on with its ⋯ › "onto the shuttle" (Gold) |
The full details are on each app's own page: the Shuttle in the launcher, the Shuttle in the calendar, the Shuttle in Tasks and the Shuttle in the Journal.
See also. The Zenith Suite & broker · Glossary