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Shortcuts Toolbox: What if the Shortcuts app had a Shortcuts app? [Sponsor]

My thanks to Luke Zilioli of Starbelly Software for sponsoring the Shortcuts Catalog. This post is a summary of the sponsor’s offerings and is not editorial content.

Shortcuts Toolbox is a complete toolkit for managing and extending your Apple Shortcuts workflow. Shortcuts Toolbox is the management layer Apple never built.

The app is designed to understand your dependencies, schedule complex workflows, compose self-contained shortcuts, and back up your whole library — with optional AI when you want it. Plus, it’s local-first by design — your shortcut library lives on your Mac, not our servers.

Everything you need

 

Dependency Graphs

With Shortcuts Toolbox, you can visualize your entire shortcut ecosystem. The app lets you see which shortcuts call which, spot circular dependencies, find orphans, and understand app integrations — in one interactive graph.

Scheduling

Shortcuts Toolbox also lets you run shortcuts and tasks on cron schedules, human-friendly intervals (“every Monday at 3:45pm”), or a one-time delay. At any time, you can pause, resume, and track full run history.

Self-Contained Downloads

Shortcuts Toolbox also lets you share complex shortcuts as a single file. With this, you can inline every dependency into one self-contained shortcut — no separate installs needed.

Shortcut Signing

You can also export signed .shortcut files that anyone can install — powered by Apple’s own signing tool and applied automatically to downloads, backups, and self-contained shortcuts.

Shortcut Backups

Shortcuts Toolbox has the ability to automatically back up your shortcuts on a schedule, with full metadata and folder structure preserved. Restore your whole library or a single shortcut anytime.

Fine-Grained Control

With Shortcuts Toolbox, you decide exactly which shortcuts are visible, which can be run, and which keep their contents private — controlled per shortcut.

HTML Dashboards

Using your library, Shortcuts Toolbox can generate rich HTML reports, visualizations, and interactive dashboards — built automatically by AI, or via the API for your own workflows.

AI Chat Interface

Shortcuts Toolbox also has an AI Chat Interface, where you can have natural conversations to run, analyze, and manage your shortcuts. Here, you can schedule tasks, run shortcuts, and understand your library in plain language.

Plus, optionally, you can add your own AI provider to unlock chat.

MCP Server

Last but not least, Shortcuts Toolbox lets you expose your shortcuts to Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients – use your shortcuts as tools in any AI workflow (Optional — pairs with any MCP-compatible client).

Ready to supercharge your shortcuts?

Shortcuts Toolbox starts with a free 14-day trial (no credit card required). Plus, keep it with a one-time purchase – no subscription.

Download the free trial of Shortcuts Toolbox, read the docs, and buy a license for $29.99.

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Add Quick Actions to Any App With OneTap’s Keyboard Assistant [Sponsor]

Performing repeatable tasks is something everyone does on their Apple devices, whether you’re accessing relevant information, sharing from a set of common links, or taking the same actions over-and-over – OneTap, an alternate keyboard app, makes it easy to find and share all that from any app using quick keyboard shortcuts.

Distinct from Apple’s Shortcuts, OneTap allows you to set up a series of shortcuts that you can switch to from the default keyboard, quickly navigate to find, and tap once to activate.

Your shortcuts in OneTap can be organized into convenient groups, letting you put similar shortcuts together under a unique name, icon, and color so they’re easily identifiable. These groups show up when accessing the alternate keyboard, letting you tap through and find individual shortcuts.

OneTap also adds a single-tap AI options for passing selected text to GPT-4 and returning generative text, letting you essentially integrate Chat GPT into any application with this one app.

OneTap is available on iPhone and iPad as an alternate keyboard, plus on Mac the app makes it functionality available via Apple’s Shortcuts app by providing a shortcut that you can trigger using the wide variety of ways you can use Shortcuts for Mac, like via the Menu Bar applet.

Plus, OneTap comes with actions for Apple’s Shortcuts app, letting you manage your groups and add, move, or edit your items in an automated fashion – or take advantage of the ability to generate a OneTap AI response.

Get OneTap on the App Store.

My thanks to OneTap for sponsoring the blog for the week of March 25.

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Peaks Visualizes Your Circadian Rhythm And Daily Routines [Sponsor]

Peaks is a unique app for iPhone that, when I discovered it, caused me to exclaim “How I have not heard of this before?” This circadian rhythm app visualizes the daily rise and fall of your energy levels based on your internal clock, taking into account things like your sleep patterns and routines to create a guide for how to approach your day.

Peaks offers a set of routines that you can toggle on or off, plus get notified for, like when it’s time to Avoid Caffeine in the afternoon or Wind Down at night. Routines like Creativity, Exercise, Energize, Focus, and Decisions are helpful as well – these fall into time periods throughout your day that you may understand inherently, but are helpful to remember and even actively be notified it’s the optimal time for.

Certain routines also offer unique options, like tracking your streak for avoiding late meals or fitting tasks in your optimal working times.

As your day progresses, Peaks’ visualization also zooms in to let you see peaks and valleys, plus marks off previous routines in the timeline. Tapping the Share button in the top right corner lets you share the graph of your biorhythm with someone else.

The Insights tab also shows visualizations of your sleep patterns, showing time asleep and sleep quality data, your consistency over the last two weeks, and heart rate data from Apple Watch or a third-party sleep app. Plus, you can see your Energy Score, letting you estimate today’s potential based on a summary of your other metrics.

Peaks works best when combined with its great widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode for iPhone, letting you ambiently see your progress throughout your day.

Plus an Apple Watch app complete with complications and Smart Stack widgets makes it easy to check in with your body, right from your wrist.

Get Peaks on the App Store.

My thanks to Peaks for sponsoring the blog for the week of March 18.