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.

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

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.

Uses the Open Tab action to access the Alarms section of the Clock app.

Sets a reminder 4 hours from the current time that your Kindle is done charging.

Gets the base64-encoded text for the Shame sound from Game of Thrones, decodes it, and plays it twice at 75% volume with a short break in between.

Finds the H1 header, removes that first line and one after it, and gets just the body of the text.

Runs a networkQuality shell script on macOS, or opens SpeedTest.net on iOS.

Opens into the Health category for Symptoms data (which can be logged with Shortcuts using Log Health Samples).

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