Show books I want to read
Opens the Books app to the “Want to Read” section that’s built up when you mark books as such.
Open my book samples
Opens the My Sample section of the Books app to show books that you’ve downloaded previews for.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20book%20samples
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20book%20samples
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open my book samples”
end tell
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Search by ISBN
Scans a QR code, gets the text out, and performs a search on ISBNsearch.com.
Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
Change Books Theme
Presents the various Themes in Books to choose from, then applies the setting of your choice.
Open Books search
Changes the Books app view to Search, showing Recently Viewed, trending genres for you, a section to Discover books, and Trending searches.
Switch to page turning
Turns on the Books setting that disables continous scroll and lets you turn pages like you would in a physical book.
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Show Bookmarks in the Developer app
Utilizes AppleScript to open the Developer and press Command + 2 to open to the Bookmarks page, where you can see sessions you’ve saved for later.
Activate ChatGPT launcher
Runs AppleScript to press the key code for Option + Space, the keyboard shortcut for ChatGPT’s launcher.
Open my Bluesky following
Using your Bluesky username, opens the link to the list of people you are Following.
Join my next meeting
Looks for the URL in your next meeting and asks if you want to open it.
Play a voice memo
Prompts you to pick from your list of voice memos and plays one immediately.
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