Siri Shortcuts, apps, and technology tips

Show story by tag

Presents a series of tags, then searches for stories tagged accordingly and presents them in a menu to open.

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20story%20by%20tag

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20story%20by%20tag

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Show story by tag” end tell

Asks you to enter a query, then searches Pocket using that term and lets you choose from the results to open in Safari.

Asks you to choose tags from a preset list, then adds them as tags for the shortcut input into Pocket.

Saves any links from the input or clipboard to Pocket.

Gets 100 items from Pocket and picks one at random, then opens it in Safari.

Opens Pocket for the Mac or the Pocket mobile app depending on where the shortcut is run.

Redirects a link from The Movie Database to Callsheet by replacing the URL with the deep link.

Ues the Transistor API to get your show data and presents it in a nicely-formatted view. Requires the Actions app.

Prompts you to pick between Mastodon accounts set up in Ivory.

Takes a custom screenshot using the sizing tool.

Turns on my living room, turns off your alarm in case you’ve woken up before it, and softly plays the radio station on my HomePod.

Find a podcast by title, host, or link and subscribe to it immediately.

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