Find Contacts
Searches for the contacts in your library that match the given criteria.
Create follow-up tasks
Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.
Actions
Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection.
Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.
Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
Repeat with Each
Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.
Add New Reminder
Creates a new reminder and adds it to the selected list of reminders.
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Create contact
Creates a new blank contact in the Contacts app, so you can use the app UI to enter in details.
Message from contact groups
Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.
Edit gaming contact
Prompts you to enter first, last, and nickname details for a contact before adding them to a pre-programmed group. Useful for gaming friends over Discord.
Extract phone numbers
Scrapes text from input and looks for strings formatted as phone numbers.
Add contacts to group
Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.
Add note to contact
Searches for contacts by group, then has you add text to place in their note field.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Create%20follow-up%20tasks
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Create%20follow-up%20tasks
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Create follow-up tasks”
end tell
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