For the first time, existing Audible credits can be applied to books from within the iOS app – no bouncing out to the website required.
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13 Features of iOS 13: Shortcuts | Six Colors 🔗
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. You can now create interactive Shortcuts that can ask questions and accept text input, especially useful if you’re not able to look at a screen because you’re using AirPods or…
Shortcuts in 3 minutes: How to make GIFs 🎥
Sharing a quick video I produced in fall of last year – how to make animated GIFs on your iPhone in just a few minutes. Plus, I want your feedback.
Interview with Greg Pierce, creator of x-callback-url and Drafts 🎙
While Alex was away, Matthew interviewed developer Greg Pierce, creator of Drafts and the x-callback-url spec that kicked off deeper interest in iOS automation.
File a radar 📲
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 📲
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 extra details, getting just the names of the checklist items in a rich text unordered list. Built this for myself today, after I found an OmniFocus template I had created…
“Make your Mac dance” with MacSparky’s Keyboard Maestro Field Guide
David Spark’s latest Field Guide has been my guide for learning Keyboard Maestro, the Mac automation multitool that’s crazy useful.
Matt Galligan’s Shared Shortcuts on Notion
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.
A Pair of Shortcuts to Log Podcast Episodes in Airtable and Play One at Random in Overcast 🔗
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 text of the information tab from the podcast title down, grabbing as much of the episode description as you would like to be included in the notes field in Airtable.…
Six Colors: Simple sleep tracking with Shortcuts 🔗
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 when I turn off my bedside light (which is a HomeKit-compatible Philips Hue bulb) I’m going to bed. And then, when I pick up my phone in the morning it…