Quick macOS Shortcut to play one of your favourite podcast

A quick tutorial on how play a podcast using a macOS Shortcut.

If you are new to Shortcuts you can check out a few tutorials here to get you familiar.

Please see the final shortcut below with the steps to create it beneath that.

Steps

Before you begin you must already been following at least one podcast using the mac app Podcasts. If you are not following any one yet, simply open the Podcasts , find a podcast that looks interesting and follow.

• Next create a Shortcut and add action Get episode
• Add action Play podcast
• Add pin to menu bar for quick access.

Thats it you are done. For more shortcut ideas check out this link.

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