MakeUseOf has put together a guide on how to use the Take Screenshot action in Shortcuts to give your captures a custom filename.
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Check out the collection below to get started with Shortcuts — there are over 700 total across the free and members-only collections.
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Recent Posts
David Pierce of The Verge takes a look at Apple's approach to apps in lieu of a rumored headset – and how the ecosystem needs to change.
All shortcuts
Browse the latest shortcuts available for free or members-only.
Free shortcuts are easier to understand, solve a simple use case, or ideas that everyone should have in their collection.
Members-only shortcuts are more complex, solve specific use cases very well, and represent my unique ideas.
In general, an entire folder of shortcuts are either all free or all members-only — except the bundle shortcuts available on each page.
Members-only shortcuts
Open Discord servers
Presents a menu of various Discord servers, then opens the deep link into a specific channel in each of them.
Rotate second screen to landscape
Rotates my left monitor to landscape orientation (for times when I switch it back from its vertical setup).
Connect to 11″ iPad Pro
Activates Sidecar for an iPad Pro near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.
Connect to iPad mini
Activates Sidecar for an iPad mini near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.
Arrange 2 screens horizontally
Organizes my dual-monitor setup to align side-by-side. When not run from Mac, works remotely using SSH.
Arrange 2 screens vertically
Asks you to pick a screen for the top and bottom of a vertical arrangement.
Free starter shortcuts
Copy timestamp for Discord
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.
Convert timecode to total seconds
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.
Convert YouTube chapters to linked list
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.
Show My Sports news
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.
Show NBA news
Opens to News stories about the NBA, including scores, schedules, teams, and special curated categories for events like the Playoffs.
Show Audio Stories
Opens into the Audio Stories section of Apple News so you can listen on your device.
Folder groups
All shortcuts are collected into the same folders that I use in the Shortcuts app, color-coded by the larger category groups.
This section shows both free and members-only shortcuts together in the same lists, unless otherwise specified.
Productivity shortcuts
Lifestyle shortcuts
New Posts
Member content
After taking notes on how to design great actions, I wanted to share my mind map ahead of future blog posts on how to build great shortcuts with members.
When working with Mastodon accounts, there's only one place to add them to a List — the profile. With Shortcuts, I've built a tool that lets you add someone to a list from your timeline, a status post, or any link.
I've just added a bundle shortcut—Mastocuts Lists—and a folder of shortcuts for Mastodon Lists, available for members in the Shortcuts Library.
Hey members, I've just published 11 new shortcuts from today's stream featuring the new actions from the Things beta.
Tune into the latest episode of Shortcuts Live, where I streamed for a little over an hour covering the new Find Tab action that I discovered in iOS 16 public beta 2.
Blog posts
MakeUseOf has put together a guide on how to use the Take Screenshot action in Shortcuts to give your captures a custom filename.
David Pierce of The Verge takes a look at Apple's approach to apps in lieu of a rumored headset – and how the ecosystem needs to change.
From XDA's story on how Apple uses artificial intelligence in its products already – how Siri Shortcuts and the Suggestions features learn from your habits.
Developer Mustafa Yusuf has released a huge update to Tasks 3 – the folks at 9to5Mac have a write-up on everything that's new.
The folks at MacObserver have put together a guide for how to set up App automations that control Orientation Lock – check it out.
Esther from Mastodon shared a great tip for using Personal Automations for psuedo-alarms when you don’t want to play alerts out loud – I built off her idea with a tip around Alarm automations.
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