This week, Federico and John cover Shortcuts utilities including Toolbox Pro, Pushcut, and LaunchCuts. They also preview an upcoming Shortcuts utility from Simon Stovring called Data Jar and explain the difference between Shortcuts, shortcuts, Siri Shortcuts, and other terminology.
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[[federico]] For this special issue of MacStories Weekly, I thought it’d be fun – and appropriate – to ring in the new year with a handful of shortcuts that can help you form new habits or gain a better understanding of your time. While I often write about using Shortcuts for productivity purposes (and sometimes...
Question: I am trying to make a Shortcut to add a Trello card to Reminders with the link to the card in the URL field of the reminder. I managed to create it in iOS 12, but since iOS 13 with the new parameters framework I cannot manage to get the card’s name and the...
This week, Federico and John discuss the sort of sophisticated web apps that can be used with Safari on iPadOS 13 and share a bunch of tips and tricks based on Apple’s latest updates to Safari.
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[[federico]] Earlier this week on MacStories, I published MusicBot, the all-in-one Apple Music assistant powered by Shortcuts. MusicBot is the result of several months of work on a shortcut that was designed to speed up and simplify interactions with the Music app for iOS and iPadOS, which I often find cumbersome to use. At the...
This week on AppStories, Federico and John reveal the 2019 MacStories Selects Awards.
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Question: Hi Federico, is it possible to create a shortcut that sets the audio output destination not to one, but to all six of my HomePods at the same time? The ‘Set Playback Destination’ action only offers one at a time. (Tom, @tomschmitt) [[federico]] Unfortunately, Tom, this is not possible, and it’s one of the...
This week, we share our 2020 wishes for Apple’s system apps on iOS and the Mac.
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This week, Federico and John cover one of their favorite RSS client for the Mac and iOS: Reeder by Silvio Rizzi.
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