Matt Galligan’s Shared Shortcuts on Notion

Matt Galligan has published a collection of Shortcuts on Notion – including a handy one for dialing in to meetings. Seems like a great way to share shortcut if you don’t have a website.
Matt Galligan’s Shared Shortcuts on Notion

Last week, I came across a useful shortcut for calling into meetings, tweeted out by Matt Galligan, former founder of Circa and now CEO of Interchange1:

The shortcut grabs your next calendar event, extracts the phone number, and dials it for you – with a trigger phrase set up, you can just say “Dial In” to Siri and it’ll just work.

Matt also has a neat way for sharing this and his other shortcuts: using Notion.

Using Notion’s public pages, he’s set up a site called “Shortcuts by @mg” that’s a simple page, linking to his other shortcuts on their own standalone Notion pages.

On each shortcut page, he’s placed the icon, name, a link to the shortcut, and three sections:

  • What it does
  • Why I built it2
  • How it works

Then, at the end, he also includes a QR code that, when scanned with your Camera app, will open the shortcut in the Shortcuts app for you ready to install. Even further, he generates the QR code using another shortcut listed on the site as well.

Here’s what an individual shortcut page looks like on my iPad Pro3:

This is a fantastic way to share shortcuts, and I like the simplicity of the messaging that makes it easy to wrap your head around it.4

For anyone who’s looking for an easy way to share your creations for Shortcuts, it seems like Notion might be a good solution. I’m usually all about people owning things on their own website, but this is pretty slick and simple too.

  1. And the older brother of a guy I interned with at VayerMedia ↩
  2. Why he built it ↩
  3. Yes it’s uncharged, and I turned off my tab and favorites bar to show it all) ↩
  4. I first experimenting with similar bulleting of how the shortcuts work in my long piece on The Sweet Setup for Ulysses – Quick Capture with Ulysses on iOS: Using the Share Sheet and Shortcuts to Save Ideas, Notes, and More. ↩

Posts You Might Like

New iPad Pro and iPad Air Product Bezels Available For Your Designs
New iPad Pro and iPad Air Product Bezels Available For Your Designs
Apple designer Mike Stern has shared update Apple Design resources that contain product bezels for the new iPads – now waiting on a new Apple Frames shortcut…
Show More
All The New Actions for Shortcuts in iOS 17: Multiple Timers, Mail, Passwords, & More
All The New Actions for Shortcuts in iOS 17: Multiple Timers, Mail, Passwords, & More
The iOS 17 public is out, and that means new Shortcuts actions – here's the full list available so far, plus my early access shortcuts.
Show More
AirPods Can Authenticate You For Siri Requests Thanks To This Accessibility Advocate »
AirPods Can Authenticate You For Siri Requests Thanks To This Accessibility Advocate »
If you're always running into "You'll need to unlock your iPhone first" with Siri, you'll want to use AirPods starting in iOS 17 – here's how this new accessibility feature benefits everyone.
Show More
How to build an App Intents Spotlight integration using Shortcuts »
How to build an App Intents Spotlight integration using Shortcuts »
Apple has introduced a new feature to display App Intents in Spotlight – Antoine Van Der Lee wrote up how he implemented the change in his app WeTransfer.
Show More