Show what I’m reading now
Changes the Book app’s view to the Reading Now section (the main section).
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.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Switch%20to%20page%20turning
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Switch%20to%20page%20turning
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Switch to page turning”
end tell
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Open Books search
Changes the Books app view to Search, showing Recently Viewed, trending genres for you, a section to Discover books, and Trending searches.
Search by ISBN
Scans a QR code, gets the text out, and performs a search on ISBNsearch.com.
Open current book
Shows the most recently-active book you’ve been reading and opens it.
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.
Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
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Turn the TV off
Sleeps a specified Apple TV, also turning off any HDMI-CEC connected devices like a TV set.
Open Apple Music TV
Opens the deep link into Apple Music TV, immediately starting the currently-playing music videos.
Open ChatGPT in single-thread mode
Opens ChatGPT, toggles the Sidebar, waits for it to resize, then shrinks the window to the smallest possible 400px wide and 658px tall on the left side – for a better single-chat experience
Check downloads in the last two weeks
Accesses the Transistor API to retrieve your analytics data, then summarizes the total downloads over the last 14 days.
Watch the Waveform podcast on YouTube
Opens the deep link to the YouTube playlist for the WVFRM podcast – bookmark it to add it your Podcasts collection in YouTube Music. On iPad, waits 30 seconds for you to start a video and then goes to the Home Screen to activate Picture-in-Picture.
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