shortcuts
I don’t know, man. I have experienced some glitch every now and then, but the truth is I have amped up my Shortcut use in the last months and I’m constantly finding new ways to take advantage of this system. I have 235 shortcuts right now and I can fairly say I use 30-40 of them regularly. https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/111377915253844878
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Since my goal is to add entries to the index right after writing them in the notebook, I have Shortcuts get and format the date for me in the first two steps. Step 3 brings up the dictation UI and records my description of the note. Step 4 combines the date, dictated text, and a trailing linefeed into a chunk of text that Step 5 then appends to the index file. The file is named “Notebook index.txt,” and it’s stored in a folder named “personal” in the root directory of iCloud Drive. Dictation errors can be fixed in either BBEdit on my Mac or Textastic on my phone.
I struggle with dictation and voice control. I really think that the system works well in English and it’s not so reliable in Spanish. But people like Dr. Drang or Macsparky always make me want to make dictation work. #tech
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Publish to Micro.blog
Use Apple Shortcuts to publish text to your Micro.blog without any frills.
This shortcut uses the Micropub API to publish text passed into it to the default blog on your Micro.blog account. It’s best used as a function that is run from another shortcut.
Take note that there is no preview of the published text with this shortcut so that it can be as streamlined as possible. Check over your post before running the shortcut, or use a preview action in whichever workflow sends text to it.
Look, @jarrod, I did it!