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

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

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.

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

Pulls your Starred items from Reeder and asks you to choose one to open.

Plays the latest episode of The Talk Show with John Gruber.

Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.

Pulls random photos from your Home Screen and Lock Screen albums, then sets them as your wallpaper accordingly.

Opens the “Edit Profiles” page which lets you select between your profiles and change the details.

Sets the volume to 30%, starts Podcasts, and sets playback to the current device.

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