The Siri Shortcuts Field Guide, iOS 13 Edition (from MacSparky)
September 18
David Sparks has completely redone his Siri Shortcuts Field Guide1 for iOS 13: The new Shortcuts Field guide was shot entirely new with the new
Tag: Shortcuts
13 Features of iOS 13: Shortcuts (Six Colors)
September 16
Jason Snell, giving an overview of Shortcuts in iOS 13 for Six Colors: Shortcuts just got a lot more useful if you use Siri, too.
iPad keyboard shortcuts for the Shortcuts app
August 22
From my piece iPad keyboard shortcuts for the Shortcuts app on iMore: While the Shortcuts app is primarily a touch-based system—where are you drag and
Shortcuts in 3 minutes: How to make GIFs
August 18
Sharing a quick video I produced in fall of last year – plus, I want your feedback.
iPad Pros #58: Shortcuts 3 (with Matthew Cassinelli)
August 8
In another guest appearance on the iPad Pros podcast, Tim Chaten had me on to talk all about the next version of Shortcuts that is built into iOS 13. (Make sure to listen to episodes 41 & 42 for last year’s recap as well).
No Name Photo Show: #57 – Taking Shortcuts with Photography
July 23
My friend Brian Matiash was kind enough to have me on his photography podcast—the No Name Photo Show—to talk Siri Shortcuts.
File a radar
July 18
Guides you through the process of filing Feedback to Apple (previously called Radar). This explains the process in a pop-up, has you type up the problem through a series of prompts before even starting a new ticket, then guides you again on how to easily fill out the form, before finally opening into Feedback.
Copy Checklist From Taskpaper
July 18
New shortcut Copy Checklist from Taskpaper for iOS 13 beta users: Takes any TaskPaper-formatted text coming from the share sheet or clipboard and strips out the
New Shortcuts beta has fixes in the works for Transit, Choose From Menu, Tweetbot
April 19
In a new type of post, I detail some of the bugs resolved in the developer betas of Shortcuts that public users might still be experiencing – check here to see what fixes are on the way.
Matt Galligan’s Shared Shortcuts on Notion
April 19
Matt Galligan has published a collection of Shortcuts on Notion – including a handy one for dialing in to meetings. Seems like a great way to share shortcut if you don’t have a website.
Preventing food from expiring with two Siri Shortcuts
April 18
When you have a bad habit you just can’t break, setting up some Siri Shortcuts can help. I put together two custom shortcuts for logging when my food expires into Trello and Reminders – plus I can ask Siri to let me know the status of my kitchen.
7 Shortcuts for meetings and making new contacts
April 16
When you meet with someone new, you don’t want to fumble with your phone trying to capture important information. So I built 7 shortcuts to help with just that.
A Pair of Shortcuts to Log Podcast Episodes in Airtable and Play One at Random in Overcast
April 5
Julia M. on her blog Rampant Procrastination: 1. Open the information tab in Overcast of a podcast you wish to log to Airtable. 2.Select the
Six Colors: Simple sleep tracking with Shortcuts
March 6
Dan Moren, writing for Six Colors: What I really wanted was for iOS to be a bit more intelligent. For example, it could realize that
How to create a deep link to file in iCloud Drive so you can directly access it later
March 4
Using the Share sheet and Add People to copy a direct link to a file in iCloud Drive, without exposing your data to the outside world.
How to jump between the audio and video of Supercomputer
February 12
When your podcast turns into a video podcast, what do listeners do if they want to watch along? For our show, I’ve build a custom Shortcut to turn Overcast links into YouTube deep links, so you can tune in regardless of the medium.
Lightroom adds native Import action to Shortcuts app, first of its kind
January 16
There’s a new action for the Shortcuts app, courtesy of your friends at Adobe. But what about RAW?
Using Shortcuts to open into Twitter Lists
December 15
How I fixed my Twitter List shortcut – and how to put a bunch of shortcuts in your Today View as a widget.
Automating blog posts for my podcast Supercomputer
December 4
While trying to automate my podcast posts here on my blog, I came up with a helpful shortcut – and wrote 3,000 words explaining my thought process.
Look ahead at your day with “Agenda”
October 29
Learn how to build your own Siri-based Shortcuts – starting with a look ahead at your schedule for the day.