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

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.

Saves any links from the input or clipboard to Pocket.

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.

Activates a Home scene set to control all the lights in my living room, turning them on or off depending on the current state.

Asks you to enter text, then speaks the text out loud.

Turns on the kitchen lights and sets playback to the HomePod mini.

Opens the Preferences window of AirServer using the ⌘ + , keyboard shortcut.

Utilizes AppleScript to open the Developer and press Command + 2 to open to the Bookmarks page, where you can see sessions you’ve saved for later.

Scrapes out any list elements like dashes, asterisks, or double brackets so you’re left with only new lines of text.

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