Opens the deep link into Apple News+ for the Emoji game. Here’s how Apple describes it:
“The object of this logic and word puzzle is to complete several phrases with as few moves as possible. Each emoji may be interpreted directly, through association, or in combination with other emoji. When you attempt an answer or expand a clue, it counts as a move.”
Opens the “Puzzles” section available for Apple News+ subscribers, which shows Crosswords, Crossword Mini, and Quartiles games.
Opens the News app and switches to the Today tab, showing you Top Stories, Trending Stories, For You categories, magazines, the Editor’s pick, and curated categories based on your past browsing.
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
Opens into the Saved Stories tab of the News app, where you can quickly access news stories you’ve saved for later – I’ll often save multiple stories as I browse, then visit this tab to read them all one-by-one.
Pulls your List data from the Mastodon API and lets you choose one to open.
Activates Spotlight search without a query, ready for you to type before showing results.
Presents a menu of MacStories shows, then plays the next episode from the selected show based on the preselected custom sort order (or default order from the Podcasts app).
Finds the H1 header, removes that first line and one after it, and gets just the body of the text.
Accesses the Transistor API and extracts the episode data in a nicely-formatted view. Requires the Actions app.
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