Building up your Lists in Mastodon is important – so is accessing them quickly when you need them. Using Apple’s Shortcuts app, I built a tool that makes a web request to Mastodon’s API and lets you return all your Lists to open from.
Working with links in the fediverse can be tricky – here’s how to use Shortcuts’ Get Components of URL action to quickly isolate any instance or account handle you come across on Mastodon.
Apple has added 11 new Shortcuts actions in the iOS 16.4 developer betas – learn about new capabilities for Stage Manager, the iPhone 14’s Always On Display, Intercom on HomePods, and VPN control.
Welcome to Issue 95 of What’s New in Shortcuts – it’s the second Friday in February and I’ve got a huge newsletter for you! Creativity
I’ve just added a bundle shortcut—Mastocuts Lists—and a folder of shortcuts for Mastodon Lists, available for members in the Shortcuts Library.
Welcome to Issue 94 of What’s New in Shortcuts – it’s hard to believe January is over and we’re already starting in on February. The
Apple has posted release notes for Shortcuts in iOS 16.3, including updates for actions and stability improvements.
After making a set of shortcuts for One Thing for Mac, I built a simple progression meter for the Menu Bar using Shortcuts.
My collection of shortcuts for One Thing for Mac, a Menu Bar applet that lets you display any text — automate your music, tasks, and current status.
Jason Snell’s update of a meeting shortcut for a friend helped me update a classic calendar workflow with a new method.
I got access to the Ivory beta and put together a set of shortcuts based on the “Open Ivory” action and all its possible parameters.
I made a checklist (and a shortcut) for the process of how to transfer your settings from one Panasonic camera to another.
Welcome to Issue 91 of “What’s New in Shortcuts” – I’m sneaking in one last issue on Revue! I just got back from playing superheroes
Check out my collection of Mastodon shortcuts for interacting with your favorite instances. Be sure to get my Mastocuts bundle shortcut as well.
Check out my collection of Christmas shortcuts, including automations for playing holiday music to smart home setups, checking for snow to counting the days down.
Welcome to Issue 90 of “What’s New in Shortcuts” — this is the last issue of 2022, and, as such, I wanted to thank you
I built a tool using Siri Shortcuts to export all your issues from Twitter’s newsletter service Revue. Get it now before they shut it down!
Apple has posted a support article covering what’s new in Shortcuts in iOS 16.2, iOS 16.1, and iOS 16 (plus watchOS and macOS) — I cover the main bullets from each release.
I appeared on the Clockwise podcast where we talked about whether we’d install a third-party app store on our phones, our most anticipated Matter devices, the tasks we’d pawn off onto an AI chatbot, and our non-holiday holiday traditions.
Welcome to Issue 89 of “What’s New in Shortcuts” — this week we saw the final beta release of iOS 16.2, which means the imminent