Average shortcuts
Change backlight brightness
Opens Settings to General > Keyboard > Hardware Keyboard for iPads with the Magic Keyboard attached.
Set orientation lock
Prompts you to choose between locking or unlocking the orientation of your iPad.
Open Mac app
Picks from a dictionary of Mac apps and their IDs, then uses SSH to remotely open the app on the Mac.
Log out
Uses AppleScript to press the keyboard shortcut ⌥+⇧+⌘+Q to immediately log out the current user.
Ask Google
Asks you to dictate text, then passes that request to the Google Assistant app.
Set a timer on the Nest Hub
Asks you to enter a time, then opens Google Assistant and asks it to set a timer on a Nest Hub.
Open YouTube on the Nest Hub
Asks the Google Assistant to open the YouTube app on your Nest Hub display.
Turn on the fireplace
Turns on the Apple TV and opens the Fireplace app, plus shows the remote.
Pause Sound Recognition
Pauses the Sound Recognition feature (rather than fully disabling it).
Monitor The House
Activates sound recognition for smoke alarms, cats or dogs, appliances, door bells, knocking, glass reaking, kettles, and water running.
Stop Monitoring The House
Pauses Sound Recogntion and disables the option to listen for home lifestyle sounds.
Monitor The Office
Activates Sound Recognition and listens for fire alarms, sirens, smoke alarms, glass breaking, and shouting – anything you’d definitely want to know about in a work environment.
Stop Monitoring The Office
Pauses Sound Recognition and turns off listenign for Sirens, Fire Alarms, Smoke Alarms, and Shouting.
Create soundscape
Presents a menu of the various options in the soundscape app Endel, then activates the individual shortcut action for the chosen option.
Add template to MindNode
Takes a list, adds it as bullets under a title, then creates a mind map in MindNode.
Make mind map link
Prompts to enter the name of a mind map to link to, using the shortcut input or clipboard as default text if present, then encodes the name into a MindNode deep link and copies it to the clipboard.
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Open PCalc TV
Opens the PCalc app for Apple TV and shows the remote so you can perform calculations on the big screen.
Toggle Voice Control
Switches the Voice Control so you can issue commands to your device, giving you hands-free control of your devices.
Works great for Accessibility purposes, as well as simply using a device when you can’t reach it – I use this on my iPad Pro when it’s on the stand I have on my desk.
Set up Emergency SOS
Opens the deep link into the Settings app to the Emergency SOS feature.
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