Books

Book Mode

Opens the Books app, then prompts you to confirm setting orientation lock so the screen doesn’t rotate. When run from Mac, opens the app in fullscreen.

Actions

Control Flow, Scripting

Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.

Apps, Scripting

Open App

Opens the specified app.

Device, Scripting

Set Appearance

Changes system appearance (between Light/Dark).

Notification, Scripting

Show Alert

Displays an alert with a title, a message, and two buttons. If the user selects the OK button, the shortcut continues. The cancel button stops the shortcut.

Device, Scripting

Set Focus

Turns Do Not Disturb on or off.

Device, Scripting

Set Brightness

Sets the device brightness.

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Switch to page turning

Turns on the Books setting that disables continous scroll and lets you turn pages like you would in a physical book.

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Open my PDFs

Opens the PDFs section of the Books app to show files you’ve imported.

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Show books I want to read

Opens the Books app to the “Want to Read” section that’s built up when you mark books as such.

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Go back a page

Goes back one page in the currently-open book in the Books app.

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Clean up book quote

Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.

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Turn on continuous scroll

Activates the Books setting that allows you to read endlessly without turning pages.

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Book%20Mode

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Book%20Mode

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Book Mode” end tell

Membership

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Shows the custom Mastodon statistics tab in Ivory.

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Set my default wallpaper

Takes a base64-encoded image of your favorite background and decodes it before passing it into Set Wallpaper for your Home Screen.

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Pause Podcasts

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Change volume

Quickly change your device’s system volume by picking a numeric value from a list. Customize the list to contain your favorite volume presets, which support decimal values.

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