Read about photography
Presents a menu to browse stories around photography, cameras, editing, photoshop, or individual photographer
Show crosswords
Opens the Crossword section of the News app.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20crosswords
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20crosswords
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show crosswords”
end tell
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See issues from National Geographic
Opens to the “Issues” tab of the Nat Geo magazine in Apple News+, where you can open or download specific issues.
Read about Music
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Show News+ Audio Stories
Opens into the Audio Stories section of Apple News+ so you can listen on your device.
Extract link from Apple News URL
Scrapes the original URL from a given apple.news link by loading the redirect and pulling the first link off the page.
Show me tech news
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.
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Get my Perplexity API key
Stores your API key for Perplexity. Store the result as base64-encoded text so it’s not readable as plain text, which is then decoded as this is run.
Add upstairs
Adds the HomePod mini in my bedroom and HomePod in my studio as a speaker group.
Remove list elements
Scrapes out any list elements like dashes, asterisks, or double brackets so you’re left with only new lines of text.
Summarize articles with Perplexity
Creates a series of Threads in Perplexity for URLs shared as input, either from the Share Sheet or by detecting what’s on screen. Includes logic for multiple links, opening each URL in the background until the final query.
Open Read Later tag
Asks you to choose from your Read Later tags, then searches your unread stories and asks you to pick from the results, then opens that item.
Show Puzzles in Apple News
Opens the “Puzzles” section available for Apple News+ subscribers, which shows Crosswords, Crossword Mini, and Quartiles games.
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