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 Trackpad preferences
Opens the Trackpad preferences where you can change settings like Tracking Speed, Click intensity, silent clicking, and more. On iOS, opens Pointer settings.
Open RTT preferences
Opens the deep link into Settings > Accessibility > RTT to let you adjust “Real-time Text,” described by Apple as “a service offering more reliability, better text support, and the ability to speak and hear during a call” with Software and Hardware options.
Open App Store search
Opens the App Store Search page where you can look for games and apps or see curated categories.
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