Opening the Junk Yard from the screen edge

Push your pointer against the edge of the screen and a slim, see-through curtain of your Junk Yard scraps slides into view. Click a scrap to copy it, then paste it wherever you're working. Move your pointer away and the curtain rolls back on its own. It docks to the right edge of the screen unless you choose the top.

Opening and closing it

%% caption: How the edge curtain opens and closes
flowchart TD
  A[Pointer pressed against the docked edge] --> B{Still there after the open delay?}
  B -->|No| C[Nothing happens]
  B -->|Yes| D[The curtain slides in]
  D --> E{What do you do?}
  E -->|Click a scrap| F[It is copied and the curtain closes]
  E -->|Move the pointer away| G{Back within the close delay?}
  G -->|Yes| D
  G -->|No| H[The curtain rolls away]
  E -->|Click the eye on a tile| I[A large preview opens and the curtain stays open]

• To open it, move the pointer right up against the edge the curtain is docked to and rest it there for a moment. The areas near the corners of the screen don't count, so reaching for a corner won't set it off.
• To close it, move the pointer away. Clicking a scrap also closes it once the scrap has been copied.
• There's no keyboard shortcut for the curtain itself, and pressing Esc doesn't close it. Esc does close the large preview.

By default the curtain waits a tenth of a second before sliding in and a tenth of a second before rolling away. Moving back in quickly keeps it open.

What you can do in the curtain

• Click a tile to copy that scrap, then paste with ⌘V.
• Two-finger tap (secondary click) a tile to delete it. Pinned scraps are protected and never deleted this way. You can turn this off with Two-finger tap deletes a scrap.
• Hover a tile for its trash button, or click its eye to open the large preview. The curtain stays open and follows along as you page through scraps in the preview.
• Scroll by moving the pointer towards either end of the row — the closer to the end, the faster — or scroll with two fingers.
• The filter icons cycle as you click them: once to show only that kind of scrap (blue), again to hide that kind (red, struck through), and a third time to clear it.
• The ＋ button starts a new note, and the blue button opens the full board.

Top or right

In Settings → Junk Yard → Edge curtain, Dock to chooses Top or Right. The Toggle dock position (Top ↔ Right) shortcut, ⌃⇧D by default, flips it instantly and briefly shows the curtain in its new place. See Junk Yard shortcuts.

Making it quicker or slower

Settings → Advanced → Junk Yard Edge Curtain has:

Reset to defaults puts them all back. If the curtain pops open when you're only reaching for the menu bar, raise the Open delay.

Turning the edge trigger off

If you'd rather not have the curtain at all, turn off Open a strip of scraps when the pointer hits the screen edge in Settings → Junk Yard → Edge curtain. Everything else in the Junk Yard keeps working. You can still open the full board:

• from the Junk Yard tab in the main window, or
• with the Open the Junk Yard shortcut, ⌃⇧J by default, which opens it in a window of its own.

The curtain also stops responding while Storage Studio is in Minimum performance mode, which you choose yourself to keep it to core work only.

If the curtain doesn't open at all, see The Junk Yard won't open or stops capturing.

See also: The Junk Yard · Clipboard capture, pins and how long items last · Searching and editing Junk Yard items