Hello and welcome to the Shortcuts Catalog!
This is a public resource to help people get started with Siri Shortcuts and the Shortcuts app.
It’s made up of three main sections below:
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The following are the latest additions to my Shortcuts Library.
Check out the variety of shortcuts to get ideas of how you can utilize them in different areas of daily life, then add any you might use:
Creates a special message for Discord to help avoid confusion that displays a specified date and time in each user’s timezone by converting the value to a Unix timestamp, with your choice of formatting options. Includes a bypass with Shortcut Input values.
Function for taking timecodes like 01:45:30 and adding up the hours or minutes or seconds into a single unit (seconds) that can be used for calculations; or, more specifically, YouTube timestamps.
Takes a YouTube video and your provided chapter marker text, splits out the timecodes and converts them to total seconds, then formats individual links for each chapter in Markdown formatting.
Opens to the Sports tab in the News app where you can see live games and stories from your favorite teams. If on iPhone and iPad, you can open links directly to games in the TV app.
Opens to News stories about the NBA, including scores, schedules, teams, and special curated categories for events like the Playoffs.
Opens into the Audio Stories section of Apple News so you can listen on your device.
Opens to the Apple News Today podcast category, where you can find individual episodes published as stories as well as links to articles mentioned in the show.
Opens to the full Local area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
Opens to the free stories shared by the San Francisco Chronicle for Apple News+.
Opens to the latest stories from Wired available for Apple News+ subscribers, as well as links to the various issues above.
Opens to the “Issues” tab of the Nat Geo magazine in Apple News+, where you can open or download specific issues.
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
Below are the latest of the members-only shortcuts – these are more advanced and cover more specific workflows.
Look for new member shortcuts every week.
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Presents a menu of various Discord servers, then opens the deep link into a specific channel in each of them.
Rotates my left monitor to landscape orientation (for times when I switch it back from its vertical setup).
Activates Sidecar for an iPad Pro near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.
Activates Sidecar for an iPad mini near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.
Organizes my dual-monitor setup to align side-by-side. When not run from Mac, works remotely using SSH.
Asks you to pick a screen for the top and bottom of a vertical arrangement.
Activates Sidecar for a larg iPad Pro near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.
Organizes my display arrangement so my vertical monitor is arranged evenly with a horizontal monitor, plus an iPad active on Sidecar beneath.
Organizes my display arrangement with my dual monitors side-by-side on top and an iPad activated with Sidecar beneath.
Sets up a dual-monitor + iPad-on-stand using Sidecar arrangement for my desk.
Sets up dual monitors side-by-side, plus asks for an additional screen on the right and on the bottom for a Mac Mini or MacBook or iPad combo.
Opens the “Displays” preference pane in System Settings so you can click Arrange to see your display setup.
The following is a documentation of the 300+ actions available in the Shortcuts app.
Browse by the main categories, or dive into a subcategory to see only those actions.
Make sure to check out Related Shortcuts for each action too.
