Club MacStories Town Halls are part of the monthly and other special live audio events we hold in the Club MacStories+ Discord community. The show is a recorded and lightly edited version of the Town Halls that we produce, so Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members who can’t attend the event live can listen later. To learn more about Club MacStories+ and Club Premier, visit our Club plans page.
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Today, Federico and John are joined by Rosemary Orchard, co-host of Automators and iOS Today, to their approaches to building new shortcuts, when to build utility functions called from other shortcuts, their recent shortcuts experiments and projects, and more.
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As we approach the mid-point of Automation April, we have some news to share and a recap of this week’s activities. First, we have a new Club-wide discount to announce from our friends at Alerty, a push notification service. Alerty’s incredibly easy-to-use web API allows you to generate rich push notifications to any of your...
GoodLinks To celebrate Automation April this week, we have a giveaway of GoodLinks. GoodLinks, which is available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, is perfect for saving and organizing links and includes excellent Shortcuts support. For today’s giveaway, we’ve got 20 codes for a free copy of GoodLinks. To sign up for a chance to...
A new Club-wide discount, the Automation April Shortcuts Contest has been extended, John recommends Button Creator and shares a collection of Mac apps to expand your Shortcuts use, Federico has a tip on reading Markdown files with Shortcuts, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, a recap...
Stories Unlock Big App Savings with Club MacStories+ and Premier Memberships Drawing a Blank S-GPT 1.0.2 Brings Date and Time Awareness, Integration with macOS Services Menu, Passthrough Mode, Better HomePod Support, and More Automation April: The Loupedeck Live S Is a More Portable and Affordable Automation Control Panel for the Mac Last Week, on Club...
Club MacStories Town Halls are part of the monthly and other special live audio events we hold in the Club MacStories+ Discord community. The show is a recorded and lightly edited version of the Town Halls that we produce, so Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members who can’t attend the event live can listen later. To learn more about Club MacStories+ and Club Premier, visit our Club plans page.
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Today, Federico and John are joined by Jack Wellborn, who won Best Overall Shortcut in last year’s Automation April Shortcuts Contest, to talk about tips for coming up with shortcuts ideas, their recent shortcuts experiments and projects, incorporating AppleScript and other techniques into Mac-based Shortcuts, and more.
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Federico shares how to customize his S-GPT shortcut with different personalities and a tip on how to make dictation the default input method for an Apple Watch shortcut, John on how to fill in the gaps in email automation with email utility apps, a MusicBox giveaway and new discount, interviews with Automation April Shortcuts Contest...
Mastodon: @ChrisLawley. YouTube and The Untitled Website. What’s your relationship with the Shortcuts app and automation on Apple platforms? I started using the app back in its indie days when it was called Workflow. Back then Workflow was a tool I used to bridge multiple apps together. Especially in my early days of working from...
Stories Introducing S-GPT, A Shortcut to Connect OpenAI’s ChatGPT with Native Features of Apple’s Operating Systems Jack Wellborn on Making Computers Personal with Automation Automation April: Thinking About Linking Enter Your Shortcuts in the 2023 Automation April Shortcuts Contest Last Week, on Club MacStories: Sending Web-Based Alerts with Shortcuts, Apple’s Laptops, Obsidian Bookmarks, and Automation...
