Activate Spotlight/Alfred
Simulates the keyboard shortcut to activate Spotlight or Alfred, letting you type in your workflow command.
Open the emoji picker
Uses AppleScript to press the key combination for the Special Characters palette.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20the%20emoji%20picker
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20the%20emoji%20picker
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open the emoji picker”
end tell
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Uses AppleScript to trigger the keyboard shortcut for the Quick Entry feature of Things on the Mac.
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Activate Control Center
Uses an AppleScript command to directly activate Control Center on the Mac.
Alarm picker
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