Category: Siri Shortcuts

You don’t have to be good at building shortcuts to use Siri Shortcuts

Post author By Matthew Cassinelli
Post date April 25

In my most recent piece for iMore, I wrote about the ways you can get new Siri Shortcuts for your collection without having to build them for yourself.

In it, I cover getting shortcuts:
– from the Gallery
– from shared links
– with import questions
– as a .wflow file
– from the community online

But my favorite part was the overall angle – you can just use other people’s shortcuts and never actually build one yourself. Shortcuts is a fantastic visual programming tool, but if you don’t give a shit about that and just want to save time instead of learning how it works, you totally can.

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10 Shortcuts for YouTubers and video creators

Post author By Matthew Cassinelli
Post date April 17

Workflow for iOS showing Sara Dietschy playing on YouTube in background.

(This post has been updated to refer to Shortcuts instead of Workflow, now that the app has been converted by Apple. All of these still work as quick shortcuts, but not everything operates fully from Siri.)

If you’re in the content creation business, time is of the essence. While you’re busy working on your craft and trying to put your work out into the world, the last thing you want to do is spend a lot of time on mundane tasks.

Shortcuts for iOS pairs nicely with this, and since it’s free & owned by Apple¹ it’s worth testing out to see if you can save time with some shortcuts.

Here are 10 tools that YouTubers and other video creators can take advantage of using Shortcuts (titles are links):

Tags Bear, Clear, creator, email, GIF, Instagram, music, OmniFocus, phone, Things, Todoist, Trello, video chat, videos, Workflows, YouTube

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Writing about Shortcuts/Workflow (and HomePod) on the Web

Post author By Matthew Cassinelli
Post date April 13

I’ve had the privilege to write for The Sweet Setup the last few months and now iMore, so I wanted to share some of the links here.

Primarily I’ve been writing about Shortcuts/Workflow, trying to get some of the ideas in my head out and into the world so other people can take better of the app – especially now that it’s free. But I’m also dabbling in product reviews & photography, a new challenge that’s proving lots of fun and hard work.

Tags HomePod, iMore, The Sweet Setup, Things, Workflows

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Quickly Saving Web Pages to my Notes

Post author By Matthew Cassinelli
Post date February 3

I’ve been doing more research on iOS lately as my iPhone is the device I use the most, so capturing full web pages quickly saves me a lot of time. While I really like Apple Notes’ latest iterations, it’s not easy to clip websites there – so I adopted Bear for notes, which has support for Markdown, images, and a handy Get URL function.

Bear’s ability to download websites as a note is killer, but it’s usually easily available for most people via their Action Extension. Rather than limiting my access to the share sheet, I’ve been taking advantage of the Shortcuts action Get Bear Note From URL¹ to save web pages from anywhere on iOS.

Tags Workflows

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Get real-time BART departures in your widget

Post author By Matthew Cassinelli
Post date December 19

(Image modified from original source: https://goo.gl/yuBhyf)

Getting around with BART is one of the great benefits of living in the Bay Area. Whether you’re in San Francisco, headed across the Bay to Berkeley or Oakland, or coming in from close by, many choose to take the train instead of toughing it through in the nation’s second worst commute.

Tags API, Travel

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Three WordPress workflows

Post author By Matthew Cassinelli
Post date July 25

After setting up my blog last night, I decided to create a few workflows to make the process easier.

Tags Wordpress, Workflows