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

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.

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

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

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

Plays the Connected podcast from Relay.FM with Myke Hurley, Stephen Hackett, and Federico Viticci.

Input a time, then calculate and copy the values for a prefilled list of time zones and corresponding emoji.

Opens the Crossword section of the News app.

Takes voice input and saves it to Notes.

Opens the SwitchBot app where users can control or set up their devices.

Asks you where to set the playback destination, then casts to that device.

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