Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
Presents a menu of various gaming-related News channels, like the generic Games, plus Video Games, Xbox, Nintendo, VR, Consoles, and Oculus channels in the News app.
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
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.
Opens into the Audio Stories section of Apple News+ so you can listen on your device.
Uses the Show Topic action from News to open into the main Technology news category, which I’ve found is a good superset or generic term that captures all the best stories from tech subjects I’m interested in before I dive into more specific topics.
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
Sample shortcut showing how One Thing can be used to show progress.
Connected to a specific VPN. If you have more than one, use List and Choose From List to pick between them.
Takes any text you’ve copied and pasts it into a new Quick Entry for a mind map in MindNode.
Pulls random photos from your Home Screen and Lock Screen albums, then sets them as your wallpaper accordingly.
Connects to AirPods Max using Set Playback Destination. Uses AirBuddy when run from Mac.
Accesses the Transistor API to retrieve your subscriber data and extract the Total Count.
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