Siri Shortcuts, apps, and technology tips

Open Desktop and Dock preferences

Opens the Dock preference pane for macOS so you can customize features like widgets.

Stop shortcut

Stops execution of the current shortcut and dismisses the shortcut on screen. No more actions will be run after this action.

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Desktop%20and%20Dock%20preferences

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Desktop%20and%20Dock%20preferences

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Open Desktop and Dock preferences” end tell

Looks for the URL in your next meeting and asks if you want to open it.

Opens the Conversation in Messages with your mother, so you can ask when’s a good time to call her.

Opens the deep link into Parks and Recreation in the TV app.

Gets the deep link into the filesystem for the Announce Message tone and plays it out loud.

Returns the time between now and a specified date in days.

Presents a menu of every page in Mastodon’s settings to open to.

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