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.
Open my book samples
Opens the My Sample section of the Books app to show books that you’ve downloaded previews for.
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Show what I’m reading now
Changes the Book app’s view to the Reading Now section (the main section).
Book Mode
Opens the Books app, then prompts you to confirm setting orientation lock so the screen doesn’t rotate. When run from Mac, opens the app in fullscreen.
Open Finished books
Opens the Books app to the Finished tab where you can see past books you’ve completed.
Turn on continuous scroll
Activates the Books setting that allows you to read endlessly without turning pages.
Search Books
Asks you to enter a query, then searches for the result in the Books app.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20book%20samples
Link to Open Shortcut
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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Open the emoji picker
Uses AppleScript to press the key combination for the Special Characters palette.
Toggle Always On
Switches the Apple Watch always-on display on or off depending on your last setting.
Summarize with ChatGPT
Accepts text from the shortcut input and asks the more-advanced ChatGPT-4 model to summarize the text, returning only the summary.
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Gets your Parked Car location and opens it in Google Maps.
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