Show my Ecobee
Opens the Ecobee app directly to your specified device, where you can change the settings or control the thermostat.
Hello and welcome to the Shortcuts Catalog!
This is a public resource to help people get started with Siri Shortcuts and the Shortcuts app.
It’s made up of three main sections below:
- the Shortcuts Library, a collection of starter shortcuts full of menus with hundreds of different ways to use them
- my Member Shortcuts, my advanced collection of shortcuts for folks subscribed to my membership (more below)
- the Action Directory, a documentation of the 300 built-in actions in Shortcuts available to browse outside the app
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The following are the latest additions to my Shortcuts Library.
Check out the variety of shortcuts to get ideas of how you can utilize them in different areas of daily life, then add any you might use:
Set a fan timer
Asks you to choose from a set of times, until the next schedule activity, or until its changed, plus a fan speed, then sets it with your Ecobee.
Change the comfort setting
Prompts you to choose from your Home, Away, or Sleep setting and sets your Ecobee to your choice until the next schedule activity.
Resume the thermostat schedule
Sets your Ecobee back to its pre-programmed schedule after you’ve manually changed the settings. Works well to stop the fan or put things back after running a shortcut.
Set fan for 15 minutes
Tells your Ecobee to activate the fan on low for 15 minutes. Works well for quick meals like toast or the air fryer.
Run the fan for 30 minutes
Sets your Ecobee to the fan mode to Low for 30 minutes. Works well for cooking larger meals.
Run the fan for 45 minutes
Tells your Ecobee to set the fan on low for 45 minutes. Works well for baking with the oven.
Set the thermostat to Home
Tells your Ecobee to activate the Home comfort setting for your everyday temperature range.
Set the thermostat to Home
Tells your Ecobee to activate the Home comfort setting for your everyday temperature range.
Set the thermostat to Away
Sets your Ecobee to your pre-programmed Away setting so your place isn’t unnecessarily air conditioned while you’re not home.
Set the thermostat to Sleep
Sets your Ecobee comfort setting to Sleep. Works well for cooling down the house before an early bedtime.
Control Codex remotely
Open the Codex experience in the ChatGPT app so you can remotely manage threads running on your Mac, plus search, organize, or create a new chat.
Member shortcuts 🔐
Below are the latest of the members-only shortcuts – these are more advanced and cover more specific workflows.
Look for new member shortcuts every week.
Click here to sign in if you’re already a member – learn more here if you’re not.
Activate Claude Code
Opens the Terminal and changes directories to ~/Developer, then runs `claude` to start Claude Code.
Optionally, choose from a menu of multiple directories.
Send Quick Notes to Cursor
Copy text saved with Quick Notes and paste it into a Cursor agent chat in Plan Mode.
Takes recent saved notes, presents a list, copies the text of your chosen option, and opens into Cursor, starts a new Agent Chat, shifts to Plan mode, and presses Enter to send – all using AppleScript key codes.
Action Shortcuts
Designed for running your shortcuts from the Action Button, this shows shortcuts from the visible app or by Focus Mode if not in an app. When in Work mode, also presents option to edit the shortcut. Also, using Orientation, sets DND if face-down and if upside down in pocket, opens Maps directions home.
Open into the TV app
Presents a menu of sections in the TV app and opens the deep link into the app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac – options include Home, Search, Store, Sports, Apple TV+, and Library. When run from Apple Watch, opens the Apple TV app.
Add to my TV watchlist
Accepts a list of TV shows or movies, scrapes the results from Apple’s Marketing Toolbox, and lets you pick where to send the media – with options to open into the TV app, add to your Watchlist, send to Reminders, or copy the links.
Browse the TV Store
Presents a menu for opening into the TV app to the Store section, either directly usnig a deep link, using the iTunes actions in Shortcuts, or Apple’s RSS feeds for top movie and TV content – plus categories for dedicated “rooms” in the TV app for special content.
Open sports in the TV app
Presents a menu of Sports sections available in the TV app, include overall Sports, plus MLS Season Pass and Major League Baseball, as well a dedicated section for your favorite home team.
Open from Apple TV Plus
Presents menu options for opening into the Home, Shows, Movies, and Upcoming sections of Apple TV+ in the TV app, plus categories for genres.
Open from saved searches for entries
Presents a list of pre-programmed Search options, then searches for the chosen text in the Journal app.
Search my Journal entries
Prompts you to enter a query, then opens to search results for your input text in the Journal app.
Create Journal entry
Prompts you to add enter text, then uses that text to create a simple entry in the Journal app.
The following is a documentation of the 300+ actions available in the Shortcuts app.
Browse by the main categories, or dive into a subcategory to see only those actions.
Make sure to check out Related Shortcuts for each action too.