Show Today’s top stories
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.
Show quartiles
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
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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.
See stories from WIRED
Opens to the latest stories from Wired available for Apple News+ subscribers, as well as links to the various issues above.
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.
Read about photography
Presents a menu to browse stories around photography, cameras, editing, photoshop, or individual photographer
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20quartiles
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20quartiles
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show quartiles”
end tell
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Takes the clipboard and appends to it to the most-recently modified note, before opening it in Notes.
Show quartiles
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
Check the Front Page
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
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