This week, Federico and John take a hard look at Shortcuts, an app they rely on every day, and consider how they would like to see Apple evolve the app this year and beyond.
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Links and Show Notes
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What’s New
- Federico rethinks his RSS and ‘read later’ workflow as well as his Home Screen setup
- John signs up for a Hey personal account and figures out how to sleep his Mac and eject external drives with the press of a button
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Shortcuts Wish List, 2021 Edition
- Shortcuts Wishes: The App
- Block folding
- Color-coded actions
- Sub-folders
- More colors and icons
- An action browser
- Debugging tools
- Shortcut locking
- Shortcuts Wishes: Actions
- Multitasking actions
- Better Files integration
- Complex UI building tools
- Safari actions
- The ability to run Swift and JavaScript
- Apple Music service actions
- Simplified Web API integration
- Shortcuts Wishes: Automations
- Deeper HomeKit support
- Apple TV integration with home automations
- Personal automations that can run at set intervals
- App-based triggers
- Proximity and presence triggers
- Shortcuts Wishes: Everything Else
- Widgets
- Trigger shortcuts with inputs via Siri
- Run Apple Watch shortcut complications on the Watch face
- Global hotkeys
- Shortcuts Wishes: The App