Wait to Return
Pauses execution until you leave the Shortcuts app and return to it.
This action might be useful after an action that switches apps, to pause execution until you return to the Shortcuts app.
L Monitor Setup
Organizes my display arrangement so my vertical monitor is arranged evenly with a horizontal monitor, plus an iPad active on Sidecar beneath.
Scripting Actions
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=L%20Monitor%20Setup
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=L%20Monitor%20Setup
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “L Monitor Setup”
end tell
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Connect to iPad mini
Activates Sidecar for an iPad mini near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.
Arrange 2 screens horizontally
Organizes my dual-monitor setup to align side-by-side. When not run from Mac, works remotely using SSH.
Connect to 12.9″ iPad Pro
Activates Sidecar for a larg iPad Pro near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.
Connect to 11″ iPad Pro
Activates Sidecar for an iPad Pro near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.
Arrange 3 screens in a 2-above-1 configuration
Organizes my display arrangement with my dual monitors side-by-side on top and an iPad activated with Sidecar beneath.
Arrange 3 screens horizontally
Sets up a dual-monitor + iPad-on-stand using Sidecar arrangement for my desk.
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Opens the tag page on the MacStories website for stories marked with “Shortcuts.”
Explore Apple Music hosts
Presents a playlist of Apple Music host pages and opens the deep link into that section of the Music app.
Copy my email signature
Takes a pre-written email signature written in Markdown and converts it to rich text, then copies to it the clipboard to be pasted into the body an email.
Send thank-yous
Asks you to pick from your contacts, then shows a Messages window for each so you can send a thank-you message.
Clean up my Desktop
Downloads the contents of your Desktop folder, then asks you which files you want to move and then lets you pick where to place them.
Screen saver
Starts the screen saver on your Mac. Choose from the Landscape, Cityscape, Underwater, Earth, or other options in System Settings and trigger it using this.
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