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.
Change Books Theme
Presents the various Themes in Books to choose from, then applies the setting of your choice.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Change%20Books%20Theme
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Change%20Books%20Theme
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Change Books Theme”
end tell
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Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
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.
Open my books
Opens the Books tab of the Books app so you can see all your non-PDF items only.
Show what I’m reading now
Changes the Book app’s view to the Reading Now section (the main section).
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Open Apple TV Remote preferences
Opens the Accessibility settings for the Apple TV Remote, which include changes the swipe gestures to Directional Buttons only, and Live TV Buttons for guide and channel buttons.
Generate filing timestamp
Copies the current date and time in a good format for pre-pending to filenames to ensure the list is always ordered well when sorted alphabetically.
Quick search with Spotlight
Asks you to enter a query, then activates Spotlight search and shows results.
Extract phone numbers
Scrapes text from input and looks for strings formatted as phone numbers.
View today’s meetings
Looks at your Zoom calendar for scheduled meetings and shows the results.
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