Files app shortcuts
Shortcuts for keeping track of and picking from your Shortcuts folders.
Use these shortcuts if you’re a Shortcuts power user and have too many folders to access quickly.
I use these to scrape the data out of Shortcuts, save the folder order outside of the app, and update subroutines that let me quick access the custom groupings I’ve designed around my hundreds of folders.
Open My Documents
Opens into the Documents folder of iCloud Drive using the Files app.
Open Documents folders
Gets the Documents folder contents and lets you pick which item to open.
Open a screenplay from Slugline
Pulls the files in Slugline’s iCloud Drive folder and opens the chosen file in the screenwriting app.
Open a mind map in MindNode
Pulls the contents of MindNode’s iCloud Drive folder and asks you which mind map you want to open.
Open a Linea sketch
Pulls files from Linea’s iCloud Drive folder, lets you pick from your groups, then opens the corresponding sketch.
Open GarageBand files
Grabs the GarageBand for iOS folder and asks you to pick a file to open.
Open Byword doc
Presents Bywor’ds documents from iCloud Drive and opens your choice in the app.
Open my Pages docs
Grabs files from Pages in iCloud Drive and opens one of your choosing.
Open my Numbers spreadsheets
Pulls your Numbers spreadsheets from Files and opens the chosen you choose in the app.
Open Keynote doc
Presents the contents of the Keynote folder and opens the chosen presentation in the app.
Open Pixelmator photos
Gets the contents of Pixelmator Photos’ iCloud Drive and asks which file to open.
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Open saved articles in Safari
Presents a list of folders, then pulls stories from that folder and lets you choose which one(s) to open in Safari.
OCR Thread
Accepts a Thread link, scrapes the data, then opens the link, waits for it to load, takes a screenshot, extracts text from the screenshot, then prompts you to delete the extra text before replacing the excerpt in the Thread JSON dictionary.
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