Is It a Music Bot on the Mac?

This week, Federico and John explain how Shortcuts for Mac differs from other automation tools, cover some of the roadblocks they’ve hit, and discuss how they’re adapting existing shortcuts to the Mac and building all-new ones.

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Links and Show Notes

Shortcuts for Mac Deep Dive

• Related Coverage on MacStories and Club MacStories
  • Getting Started with Shortcuts for Mac and the Stream Deck
    • My Stream Deck Setup
  • Shortcuts for Mac: 27 of Our Favorite Third-Party Integrations
  • macOS Monterey: The MacStories Review, Shortcuts section
  • The Many Ways To Run Shortcuts in macOS Monterey
  • My Obsidian Setup, Part 5: Appending Text and Webpage Links to Specific Sections of My ‘Dashboard’ Note
    • PopClip
  • A Downloads Folder Cleanup Shortcut
  • Controlling HomeKit Devices with HomeControl’s URL Scheme and Shortcuts for Mac
• Other Links
  • The Template Gun meets Shortcuts on Six Colors

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