See stories from Apple News Today
Opens to the Apple News Today podcast category, where you can find individual episodes published as stories as well as links to articles mentioned in the show.
Show Puzzles in Apple News
Opens the “Puzzles” section available for Apple News+ subscribers, which shows Crosswords, Crossword Mini, and Quartiles games.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20Puzzles%20in%20Apple%20News
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20Puzzles%20in%20Apple%20News
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show Puzzles in Apple News”
end tell
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Show quartiles
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
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.
See stories from San Francisco Chronicle
Opens to the free stories shared by the San Francisco Chronicle for Apple News+.
Show My Sports news
Opens to the “Sports” tab in the News app where you can see live games and stories from your favorite teams. If on iPhone and iPad, you can open links directly to games in the TV app.
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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Activate Spotlight/Alfred
Simulates the keyboard shortcut to activate Spotlight or Alfred, letting you type in your workflow command.
Open Menu Bar apps
Opens various apps you want running in the Menu Bar like Alfred, Plex, or 1Password.
Open Audio/Visual preferences
Opens the Audio or Visual section of Accessibility settings where you can adjust Headphone Accomations, Background Sounds, Mono Audio, Power On and Off Sounds, Headphone Notifications, Balance, and LED Flash for Alerts.
Turn the TV off
Sleeps a specified Apple TV, also turning off any HDMI-CEC connected devices like a TV set.
Convert YouTube chapters to linked list
Takes a YouTube video and your provided chapter marker text, splits out the timecodes and converts them to total seconds, then formats individual links for each chapter in Markdown formatting.
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