The shelf
Drag files to the top of the screen and they wait on the shelf until you drag them out where you need them. A floating shelf can come to the pointer instead.
The shelf in the notch
- Drag files toward the top of the screen. The notch opens on the Shelf.
- Drop them. The notch stays open so you can see them land, unless you turn that off.
- Later, drag them out of the shelf into any app or folder.
- Unpinned files leave the shelf after a time you choose. Right-click a file to pin it; pinned files stay until you remove them.
- With Remove after dragging out on, a file leaves the shelf once it lands somewhere else. Pinned files stay.
- The Shelf tab can show only while there are files on it.
Floating shelves
Shake a file while you drag it, and a floating shelf comes to the pointer. Drop the file there. How hard you have to shake is up to you, from Gentle to Strong.
- A floating shelf tucks away four seconds after the pointer leaves it. Shake again, use its shortcut, or the switcher, to bring it back.
- With Multiple floating shelves on, each shake opens another one.
- The Shelf switcher lists every floating shelf, hidden ones too, to bring one to the pointer, close it or start a new one.
- Sync between shelves makes floating shelves share the notch shelf's files.
Choose In the notch, Floating or Both in Settings → Shelf. The shortcuts for a floating shelf and the switcher are off until you pick them there.