# Apple Shortcuts: The Bicycle for the Mind is Back, but it’s Electric — Prolost

<https://prolost.com/blog/bicycle>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is more than just an intro to Shortcuts on iOS 12. There is a complete history of user space programming tools from Apple over the years, going back to HyperCard. Skip the history part if you just want to read about Shortcuts. 

> Shortcuts, the app, is my favorite thing to happen to the iPhone since the camera got decent. I truly feel that my relationship to my iPhone has fundamentally changed, because I can now build things on it that make it do things that only I would ever want. Useful things, but also fun things. Complex things and simple things.

I’ve built incredible stuff with Shortcuts and am continuing to do more. My Weekly Thing newsletter is entirely built with Shortcuts and various API’s and a little Python thrown in for fun. It is worth the effort to learn Shortcuts. They are very approachable.

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## Appears in

- [WT77: Weekly Thing #77 / Oct 27, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/77/), Featured Links 🏅

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