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.

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

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

Opens the Library section of Perplexity, where you can see Threads and Pages around searches you’ve performed.

Adds a pre-set list of names as new Lists on Mastodon.

Opens transit directions from your current location to your home address.

Opens into the Apple Health app to display any Toothbrushing data that’s been tracked automatically or entered manually.

Using your Bluesky username, opens the link to the list of people you are Following.

Puts the current Mac disk and display to sleep.

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