Select Contact
Prompts to pick a person from your contacts and passes the selection to the next action.
Call a contact
Presents your list of contacts, then calls the person you select. If they have multiple numbers, asks you which one to dial.
Actions
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Call a coworker
Looks for contacts from a given company name (added on input), then asks you to choose which contact and calls them.
Get my number
Gets the first phone number from your preselected contact card, copies it to the clipboard, and shows it to you in a dialog. Use to quickly show to or share with someone else.
Phone a friend
Looks for contacts added to a “Friends” group and asks you to pick one before calling them.
Open my voicemail
Opens the deep link into the Voicemail section of the Phone app (vmshow://).
Open recent calls
Opens the deep link into the Recents section of the Phone app to see your incoming and outgoing calls, plus any missed calls (mobilephone-recents://).
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Call%20a%20contact
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Call%20a%20contact
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Call a contact”
end tell
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Open Settings for an App Store app
Asks you for an app name, searches for it on the App Store, gets the bundle ID, and opens into Settings for that app. iOS-only.
Check quarterly taxes
Opens the Quarterly tab of the Tax page for QuickBooks Self-Employed so you can view and file your quarterly taxes (to avoid paying in one big lump-sum the year after).
Save time and money at Ramp dot com
Opens to the website for Ramp, the main sponsors of TBPN.
Open from work folders
Presents a menu of my work-related folders and opens the corresponding choice.
Clear my grocery list
Asks you to pick from completed grocery reminders and removes them.
Check my sleep data
Opens into a variety of pages in the Health app, including: sleep, nutrition, handwashing, toothbrushing, activity, flights climbed, body measurements, mobility, heart data, VO2 max info, environmental volume levels, and headphone levels.
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