Category: AppleShortcuts
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Open Outlook for iOS to Calendar
iOS Users: Sharing this iOS shortcut despite its very limited use case. My dog has a longer/better attention span than I do. As a result, whenever I open Outlook on my iPhone to check my calendar, I immediately get distracted by whatever emails are at the top of my inbox and forget that I was…
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Tailscale, iOS, self-hosting and Home Assistant
It feels like magic to have no open ports on my router and still be able to access all of myself hosted services. Jotting down a few notes here on how I approached this. First off, my primary server that I self-host all of my services on is always running a VPN so I don’t…
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Recipe Cruft-Cleaner
I’m not so much of a recipe-using cook, but sometimes I like to review several recipes when I’m making something to get ideas for spice/ingredients that I might not be thinking of incorporating into my version or to get an idea of different cooking times, etc. The bloat of online recipe sites don’t help with…
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Hey Siri/Shortcut Automation with 2023 Outback
Updating my “Hey Siri, Warm up the Subaru” shortcut post with parameters/options.
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Thanks, update!
Morning after update to 15.4, all shortcuts look the same now. Not super useful, Apple:
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PESOS vs POSSE
I didn’t realize Dries founded/manages Drupal until I checked out the about page on his website. In any case, he has a really excellent comparison of PESOS vs POSSE on his site. For me, I’m just trying to find as friction-free a way to collect/post/share. After a bunch of false starts I’m leaning towards WordPress…
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Memory, time and quarantine.
“I may not be as strong as I think,” the old man said. “But I know many tricks and I have resolution.” – The Old Man and the Sea, E. Hemingway. At baseline, my memory is only so-so. For example, I can remember chord progressions to songs and lyrics only with a lot of…
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Day One and iOS/Mac Shortcuts Parity
One of the most popular Shortcuts I’ve written is my “Logging to Day One” shortcut that allows you to keep a timestamped list of items to a single day’s journal entry throughout the day. I wrote a post about it two years ago, you can read more about it here. I updated the post today…
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Last.fm to Apple Music playlist shortcut
This is a pretty handy Swiss Army knife-type shortcut for creating Apple Music Playlists from last.fm data. I originally wrote it so that I could create Apple Music playlists based upon the listening history of my last.fm musical neighbors. But as I started poking around on the web, I noticed that last.fm users were looking…
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Getting better at tracking listening
I use this service called readwise that helps me remember what I read. I’ve posted about it before. Anyway, it occurs to me that I really need something similar for my listening. Like, what artists have I recently followed in Spotify or tracks I’ve dug Apple Music, etc. I think there’s probably some way to…