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Shortcuts and iOS automation
226 links saved from 2006 to 2026; 225 with a note, 140 in a Weekly Thing.
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- macstories.net 50, thesweetsetup.com 17, sixcolors.com 8, macsparky.com 6, brettterpstra.com 5
2026
- BrewUI: 📺 Homebrew's official macOS GUI
- Introducing Shortcuts Playground: Create Apple Shortcuts with Claude Code or Codex
- Introducing Apple Frames 4
- Daring Fireball: HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window
- OpenClaw Is Changing My Life
- Dot: The Menu Bar Calendar That's Become My Main Calendar
- Left – Widgets for Time Left
- Photos Backup Anywhere
2025
- What’s new in Shortcuts for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26
- Write It Down
- Locally AI
- Experimenting with Apple’s AI models inside Shortcuts
- Apple's Shortcuts app is getting a huge upgrade in iOS 26 and macOS 26 — here's how it will help you
- Sky Extends AI Integration and Automation to Your Entire Mac
- Smart Folders Are the macOS Game Changer That I’ve Always Ignored
2024
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2021
- Exporting Links from Safari Reading List via Shortcuts for Mac
- Actions | Sindre Sorhus
- LaunchBar/Run-Shortcut at master · Ptujec/LaunchBar
- Building cross-platform shortcuts
- Shortcuts for Mac: 27 of Our Favorite Third-Party Integrations
- Orion Browser by Kagi
- How I’m Using iOS Focus Modes to Reduce Daily Distractions
- Datasette Desktop — a macOS desktop application for Datasette
- Automate your Darkroom Workflow with our new Shortcut Actions
- How Shortcuts for the Mac will fit in
- Day One at Automattic
- WWDC 2021: Shortcuts for Mac
- Timery Comes to the Mac and Makes Time Tracking With Toggl Easier Than Ever
- TextSniper - Capture and extract any text from your Mac's screen
- Albums 4.0: A Must-Have App for Music Lovers
- Numi. Beautiful calculator app for Mac.
- The Mac needs Shortcuts
- Watch app for Tesla
- Hook – Find without searching
- Reminders App is All I Need
- Bunch
- Text Case Adds Customizable Flows: User-Created, Multi-Step Text Transformation
- Get Your Outlook Calendar In A Snapshot
- MeetingBar: Your next meeting always before your eyes in the macOS menu bar
- Habit Tracking: The Best Habit Apps For Your iPhone
2020
- Scott Hanselman's 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
- Meeter – Fast Call Initiation – Calls & Meetings in one place
- Hello, Mac. The same Apple Design Award-winning app… | by Majd Taby | Dispatches From Darkroom | Nov, 2020
- Timery Debuts Powerful Time Tracking Widgets for iOS 14
- Charty – Create charts from Shortcuts
- Drafts 22 Review: Widgets, Scribble, and More
- Location Based Apple Watch Faces?
- Copilot — A Smart Budgeting App for iPhone
- Shortcuts Wishlist
- Due Adds Modern Shortcuts Support with New Reminder Creation Parameters
- Clutterfree App - Love your home.
- The 10 Best Productivity Apps You Need In 2020
- iOS Calendar Automation with Shortcuts and Fantastical 3
- My Must-Have Apps, 2019 Edition
- Look Busy
- LaunchCuts Review: A Better Way to Organize Your Shortcuts with Folders, Advanced Search, and Custom Views
2019
- Puddle & Pile — the app that predicts when your puppy needs to go — is freaking amazing
- Drafts for Mac: It's Action Time
- The Best Apps & Hardware of 2019
- Timery for Toggl Updated with Shortcut Parameter Support and a Refreshed Design
- RoutineHub • A community for Siri Shortcuts
- Toolbox Pro Review: A Must-Have Companion Utility for Shortcuts Power Users
- 1Blocker for Mac Introduces New Features and a Subscription-Based Business Model
- iOS Shortcuts Ultimate Guide: Reviews, Examples, Libraries, Tutorials...
- Quickness: Add Voice Contacts on the App Store
- Agenda Gains Drawing and Handwriting Features, Plus Document Scanning and Dark Mode Enhancements
- Drafts 15 Review: Multiwindow, Shortcuts, and More
- Announcing my Shortcuts Library, featuring 150 Siri Shortcuts to use with iOS 13
- Announcing the Shortcuts Field Guide, iOS 13 Edition
- 13 Features of iOS 13: Shortcuts
- PCalc 3.9 Adds Dark Mode and the Latest Shortcuts Features, Expanding the App's Automation Capabilities
- Our Biggest Mac Release Ever: The New Toggl Desktop App Is Here
- Wavēy — A set of vibrant wallpapers
- Peek Calendar
- Xcode - SwiftUI
- The Full List of Automation Triggers in Shortcuts for iOS 13
- Bunch, a batch app launcher for your Dock
- MacMenuBar.com - A curated directory of 200+ Mac menu bar apps
- Home Screens — Hugo Castellanos
- Siri Shortcuts and Screen Time coming to the Mac
- CalZones Review
- The Eight Best Ulysses Superpowers
- Shortcuts 2.2 Brings New Apple Notes Actions, Travel Time Enhancements
- Drafts for Mac: The MacStories Review
- Cronios – tow.com
- Thinking Different: Keys to Adopting an iPad-First Workflow
- The Best App for Taking Handwritten Notes on an iPad
2018
- My Must-Have Mac Apps, 2018 Edition
- My Must-Have iOS Apps, 2018 Edition
- Introducing MacStories Selects: The Best New Apps, App Updates, and iOS Games of 2018
- Home Screen Icon Creator: A Shortcut to Create Custom Icons for Apps, Contacts, Solid Colors, and More
- Shortcuts Archive
- Sharecuts
- Clipboard Shortcuts with Siri
- Shortcuts 2.1 Brings New Weather and Clock Actions, iCloud Sharing Improvements, and More
- Apple Shortcuts: The Bicycle for the Mind is Back, but it’s Electric
- Apple Frames: A Shortcut for Framing Screenshots from Every Apple Device
- RECaf Review: Effortless Caffeine Tracking
- Hey Siri, Drive My Tesla (How To Use iPhone's New Shortcuts)!
- Safari Content Blocker Evaluations – 9/26/18 Edition
- ShortcutsGallery.com - Download or share Siri Shortcuts
- Scriptable: Use JavaScript to control your iPhone
- Siri Shortcuts Field Guide | MacSparky Field Guides
- Apple Pencil Note-Taking: Why You Should Use Apple Notes, actually.
- WhenWorks Ends the Scheduling Back-and-Forth
- Shortcuts: A New Vision for Siri and iOS Automation
- How Siri Shortcuts Can Revolutionize iOS Automation
- iOS 12: The MacStories Overview
- OmniFocus 3 Review: More Approachable and Powerful, All at Once
- How I use Day One — and an aside about the differences between Bear and Day One
- Why I love editing video on iPad — and how it could still be a lot better
- Drafts 5: The MacStories Review
- Radio Silence | Network monitor and firewall for Mac
- Workato
- Life on an iPad | The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
- Things 3.4 Brings Powerful New Automation Features and App Integrations
- New Apps for 2018
- The Best Productivity and GTD App for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
- Get Slack-style emoji everywhere with Rocket
- Best of 2017: iOS Apps
2017
- My Must-Have iOS Apps, 2017 Edition
- Moment – Automatically track your and your family's daily iPhone and iPad use
- Vanilla — hide Mac menu bar icons for free
- MindNode 5 - It starts with a thought
- Grammarly Keyboard for iOS
- First Look: Cardhop for Mac —The Sweet Setup
- iPad Diaries: Clipboard Management with Copied and Workflow
- More Great Shelf Apps to Boost iPad Productivity
- Workflow to Collect All Links
- Here are 11 quick tips for using iOS 11 —The Sweet Setup
- Home Screens - Sal Saghoian —macsparky
- The Best Notes App for iPhone and iPad: Bear
- OmniGraffle 3.0 Brings the Power of Its macOS Counterpart to iOS
- A Few Tips for Making Drafts a Writing Environment on iPad and iPhone —Macdrifter
- Affinity Photo - Professional photo editing for iPad
- Disposable AppleScripts
- No Assistant, No Problem: Using a Calendaring Service
- Linea + iCloud: Your Sketches, Everywhere You Need Them
- Yoink
- “Hello Weather” for iOS
- TripMode 2 released for Mac | TripMode | Your mobile data savior.
- Things 3: Beauty and Delight in a Task Manager
- Five Ways to Use Day One as a Travel Journal
- Using the iPad for: Taking notes and planning
- iPad Diaries: Advanced File Management and Research with DEVONthink
- The All New DEVONthink To Go for iOS
2016
- MyScript Nebo: The best note-taking app for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
- The best habit tracking app for iOS
- Getting iOS 10 right from the start
- Control bandwidth-sucking apps with TripMode
- Quitter
- Siri's Hidden Talents
- Enumerating The Ways I Love Swift Enumerations
- BusyContacts
- Dropzone 3
- A look back at 2015: My Top Mac Apps
- Spillo
- How to organize notes with folders in Notes.app for Mac
- The Best Journaling App for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Interact: Better iOS Contact Management
- Pythonista 2.0 Brings Action Extension, iPad Pro Support, Code Editor Improvements, and More
2015
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- Calvetica
- Facebook Services for Mac Share Photos and Links from Your Desktop [Automator]
- WWD Screencast: Automated Screenshots With Fake
- Fake Brings Automator-Like Workflows to Your Web Browser
- 25 Safari Extensions You Can Install Now
- WordCrasher for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
2009
- Dan Frakes’s 2009 Mac Gems of the Year
- MindNode
- Small copy changes like this, to action words (imperatives)...
- Prowl: Growl Client for iPhone
- The Minimalist OS X Desktop [Featured Desktop]
- Things 1.1Things Touch 1.3.5: Area Sync
- AppleScript support
- Growl integration
- Apple - Mac OS X - New technologies in Snow Leopard
- FirstLook: WeatherCal 1.0
- WeatherCal Inserts Updating Forecasts into iCal
2008
- i use this mac os x software: applications used by thingles
- Freeware Find: IceClean 3.0b
- Dashboard widget for Backpack Journal
- Caffeine control
- Do It Yourself .Mac - The Network People, Inc.
- MacFamilyTree - Alzeimers Cure?
- CalorieKing - Diet & Weight Loss Software for Mac OS X
- Measuring Cup: A Free OS X Recipe Manager