Check the Front Page
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
Opens to the “Issues” tab of the Nat Geo magazine in Apple News+, where you can open or download specific issues.
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
Opens to the free stories shared by the San Francisco Chronicle for Apple News+.
Opens to the latest stories from Wired available for Apple News+ subscribers, as well as links to the various issues above.
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Opens into the Saved Stories tab of the News app, where you can quickly access news stories you’ve saved for later – I’ll often save multiple stories as I browse, then visit this tab to read them all one-by-one.
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.
Asks you to pick from your contacts, then shows a Messages window for each so you can send a thank-you message.
Opens the Flipboard Picks magazine curated by the Flipboard team to show interesting stories from the platform.
Opens to the Feeds tab of Bluesky, showing My Feeds and the Discover New Feeds section.
Sets your Ecobee back to its pre-programmed schedule after you’ve manually changed the settings. Works well to stop the fan or put things back after running a shortcut.
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