Get Contents of Folder
This action gets the files inside of the specified folder.
Recursive
If this option is enabled, this action will get all the files inside of a folder, including its subfolders.
Open a Keynote doc
Gets the contents of the Keynote folder in iCloud, asks you to pick a presentation, and opens your file of choice.
Actions
Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection.
Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.
Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
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Create Basic presentation
Presents a menu of Basic themes from Keynote to create – choose from Basic White, Basic Black, Classic White, White, and Black.
Create Portfolio presentation
Presents a menu of Portfolio-style presentations to create in Keynote – choose from Industrial, Blueprint, Graph Paper, Chalkboard, Photo Portfolio, and Leather Book.
Create Minimal presentation
Asks you to choose between Miniminal themes in Keynote – pick from Basic Color, Color Gradient Light, Color Gradient, Gradient, Showroom, Modern Portfolio, Slate, and Photo Essay.
Create Bold presentation
Presents a list of Bold presentation themes available in Keynote – choose from Bold Color, Showcase, Briefing, Academy, Modern Type, and Exhibit
Open my presentation
Opens a pre-selected Keynote presentation. I use this with any current presentation that I may be working on.
Create custom presentation
Creates a presentation from your “My Themes” section, which appears when you use Edit > Save Theme in Keynote.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20a%20Keynote%20doc
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20a%20Keynote%20doc
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open a Keynote doc”
end tell
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Gets a folder of audio files, lets you choose one, and encodes the result to base64 (to be placed into another shortcut and decoded to play the sound).
Podcast noise cancelling
Activates sound cancelling on AirPods Pro or AirPods Max, then starts Podcasts.
Read my most recent reminder
Uses Siri to speak back the most recently-added reminder in the Reminders app.
Open from my Health data
Presents a menu of Health tabs grouped by section, health records, and categories of health data, then opens to the tab of your choice.
Percent Encode text
Replaces any special characters in the input with percent-encoding that makes it function properly in URLs.
Check environmental levels
Opens the Health app to Environmental Volume Levels to display data gathered from the Noise app on Apple Watch.
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