Open personal YouTube playlists
Presents a menu of YouTube playlists sorted into your “Personal” group, letting you choose one and open it in the app.
YouTube playlists shortcuts
Shortcuts for a deeper experience with YouTube playlists utilized at scale.
Use these shortcuts to capture and open back into all your YouTube playlists – this system works effectively once you get too many playlists in YouTube to access easily from the single-file list in the app.
Open creator YouTube playlists
Presents a menu of playlists from YouTube creators and lets you open directly to their queue in the app.
Copy YouTube playlist link
For links shared from videos playing inside a playlist, this will scrape out the ID and reformat it into the main playlist link.
Show YouTube library
Opens the link to the Library tab of YouTube, which shows your History, Watch Later, Playlists, and Liked Videos.
Grab YouTube playlist ID
For a given YouTube video passed in as input, this isolates the URL parameter after “list=“ that represents a video playlist ID.
Open work YouTube playlists
If you don’t want the Grab YouTube playlist ID shortcut installed, delete the Run Shortcut action above and the URL action below.
However, the shortcut won’t work with links from videos inside playlists anymore.
YouTube Playlist Dictionary
Complete dictionary of YouTube playlists in your collection, grouped by Personal or Work, then subgroups by category.
Open my YouTube playlists
Pulls from a dictionary of YouTube playlists and lets you pick from subgroups to open in the app.
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Open a folder in Shortcuts
Opens a Shortcuts folder of your choosing; accepts the name of a folder as input as well.
Link to Open Folder with Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20a%20folder%20in%20Shortcuts&input=text&text=YouTube%20Playlists
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Log meeting notes
Asks you to pick an event, name the project, and generates a blank meeting note template for you to fill out.
Open Downtime
Opens the deep link into the Downtime feature (inside Screen Time) in iOS settings.
Create photo entry
Asks you to select an image from Photos or Files, then some associated text, then attaches it to a new entry in the Journal app.
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