Select Contact
Prompts to pick a person from your contacts and passes the selection to the next action.
Add contacts to group
Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.
Actions
List
Allows you to specify a list of items to be passed to the next action.
Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection.
Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.
Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
Edit Contact
Sets a specific field of the contact passed into the action.
Detail
The property of the contact to edit.
Edit
The operation to perform on the selected property of the contact.
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Capture contact info
Presents a series of prompts for contact information, then generates a .VCF and asks you how you want to share it.
Batch-send file to a group
Asks you to pick a file, then a Contact Group, then sends that file to each person in the group one-by-one.
Create a contact card
Asks you to enter in contact information, then generates a .VCF vcard file out of your answers and shares it.
Add note to contact
Searches for contacts by group, then has you add text to place in their note field.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20contacts%20to%20group
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20contacts%20to%20group
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Add contacts to group”
end tell
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