Batch-create shortcuts in new folder

Asks you to enter a folder title and creates it, then for a list of shortcut names (with any text prepended or appended), then creates those shortcuts in the folder – designed for quickly making Home Screen shortcuts.

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Add to Home Screen from Files

Asks you to choose from your Shortcuts folders and repeats through the shortcuts for that folder, letting you choose a custom title, then choose from Files for the icon before adding it to the Home Screen.

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Batch-add to Home Screen from folder

Asks you to choose a folder from Files or Finder containing your icons, then a folder from Shortcuts containing your shortcuts, then repeats through each adding a custom icon corresponding to the repeat index in the icon folder – icon-1.png for shortcut-1.shortcut (and so on).

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Add game to Home Screen

Using my folder of Xbox games shortcuts, this automatically adds any new games I choose to the Home Screen using my preferred short title style and icons created using my xCloud folder of shortcuts.

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Batch-create%20shortcuts%20in%20new%20folder
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Batch-create%20shortcuts%20in%20new%20folder
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Batch-create shortcuts in new folder” end tell

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