Switch to page turning
Turns on the Books setting that disables continous scroll and lets you turn pages like you would in a physical book.
Show books I want to read
Opens the Books app to the “Want to Read” section that’s built up when you mark books as such.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20books%20I%20want%20to%20read
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20books%20I%20want%20to%20read
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show books I want to read”
end tell
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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.
Search Books
Asks you to enter a query, then searches for the result in the Books app.
Open my books
Opens the Books tab of the Books app so you can see all your non-PDF items only.
Open current book
Shows the most recently-active book you’ve been reading and opens it.
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Take reminder screenshot
Waits a few seconds (to close the shortcut), takes a screenshot, waits for you to return to Shortcuts, then asks you to enter the title before adding it to Reminders.
Open my Work notes
Opens the “Work” folder in Notes – when in Gallery view, this will also show your sub-folders.
Show My Documents
Opens into the Documents folder of iCloud Drive using the Files app.
Activate Things quick entry
Uses AppleScript to trigger the keyboard shortcut for the Quick Entry feature of Things on the Mac.
OCR Thread
Accepts a Thread link, scrapes the data, then opens the link, waits for it to load, takes a screenshot, extracts text from the screenshot, then prompts you to delete the extra text before replacing the excerpt in the Thread JSON dictionary.
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