Helpful Apple Shortcut Directory
2 min readJan 18, 2022
I have recently been learning more about Apple Shortcuts and how to use them to automate or make tasks more easily accessible on my Mac and iPhone.
To make it easier to find all this information I’m learning, thought it would be a nice idea to create a directory of links so its a little easier to find the what I’m looking for. Hope it is useful for others.
Ideas
Tutorials
- How to amend multiple files at the same time
- How to amend a Shortcut for Quick Actions
- How to create dynamic Shortcuts (set-up)
- How to schedule macOS Shortcuts using Calendar
- How to schedule Shortcuts using launchctl command
- RSS viewer example
- API example, parsing JSON Dictionary
- API example, parsing a JSON List
- Javascript example to help parse complex JSON
- API example, passing in user input
- Podcast example
- How to use a menu with variables
- How to use shell script and regex to extract an iPhone identifier
- How to use AI to easily create complex shortcuts
Quick tutorials
- Take a screenshot, resize then save file
- Batch resize images and save
- Create interactive RSS feed
- Play podcast
- Convert HTML to Markdown
Apple links