Show Today’s Current Thing
Grabs a to-do from Things set for Today and displays it in the Menu Bar using One Thing.
Shortcut Information
I use this shortcut to take my current task from Things 3 and display its title in the Menu Bar so I don’t lose focus on my most-important thing to do at the moment.
As someone whose line of work is inherently cross-functional, it can be easy to get distracted with other opportunities throughout the day — this helps me realign on what I was doing before I got off-track.
Note: this requires the beta of Things 3 that supports new Shortcuts actions.
As someone whose line of work is inherently cross-functional, it can be easy to get distracted with other opportunities throughout the day — this helps me realign on what I was doing before I got off-track.
Note: this requires the beta of Things 3 that supports new Shortcuts actions.
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Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20Today%27s%20Current%20Thing
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20Today%27s%20Current%20Thing
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show Today’s Current Thing”
end tell
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