Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
Open my PDFs
Opens the PDFs section of the Books app to show files you’ve imported.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20PDFs
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20PDFs
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open my PDFs”
end tell
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Change Books Theme
Presents the various Themes in Books to choose from, then applies the setting of your choice.
Open my books
Opens the Books tab of the Books app so you can see all your non-PDF items only.
Switch to page turning
Turns on the Books setting that disables continous scroll and lets you turn pages like you would in a physical book.
Book Mode
Opens the Books app, then prompts you to confirm setting orientation lock so the screen doesn’t rotate. When run from Mac, opens the app in fullscreen.
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Pulls archived items from a specific tag and extracts the title/URL from the choice, separated by two tabs and copied to the clipboard so it can be pasted across columns in a spreadsheet.
Search Notes
Asks for a query, finds notes, presents a list of options, and opens the chosen note.
Switch to default wallpaper
Switches to your default Wallpaper, untied from any Focus mode.
Convert time between dates to total seconds
Takes two dates chosen as input and calculates the duration in seconds between thme – works as a Unix timestamp converter.
Play audio recording
Grabs your audio folder, lets you pick a file, and plays the sound at 35% volume.
Generate filing timestamp
Copies the current date and time in a good format for pre-pending to filenames to ensure the list is always ordered well when sorted alphabetically.
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