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 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.

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

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

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

Opens the MacStories account on Flipboard so you can read stories from Federico Viticci and friends.

Asks you to pick from your contacts, then shows a Messages window for each so you can send a thank-you message.

Turns the “Announce Notifications” feature of Siri on, so she speaks notifications out loud.

Takes a web link from Amazon and converts the URL to a Camel Camel Camel search for the same product in a Safari

Activates Sidecar for an iPad Pro near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.

Opens Freeform, then opens Safari in another window (and in Slide Over on iPad).

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