![]() The shortcut I’ve put together lets you toggle playback on a specific HomePod with one tap: run it, and the selected speaker will either play or be paused – no Siri invocation necessary. As the owner of three HomePods, I’ve always found it somewhat tedious to be forced to control playback by using ‘Hey Siri’ and speaking to the assistant with Shortcuts, I can now control playback from my Home screen (thanks to MacStories Shortcuts Icons’ HomePod-specific glyphs) or, even better, from a widget, which also works on the Lock screen. These include HomePods, Apple TVs, and other AirPlay 2 speakers. In the new Shortcuts app, the Play/Pause media action can control playback for external devices paired with your iPhone or iPad. I covered the action behind this simple shortcut in my iOS and iPadOS 13 review, but enough readers have been asking about it, I figured it was worth sharing as an individual shortcut as well. ![]() You can keep running the shortcut to add multiple reminders in a row. Shortcuts’ Date action supports natural language input like Reminders, so you can type commands such as “next Monday at 4 PM” and the app will interpret them correctly in iOS and iPadOS 13.2, Shortcuts will also gain a nice visual confirmation for a parsed date, which used to be available in iOS 12 and was removed in the transition to iOS 13.0:Ī custom menu to create new tasks in the Reminders app. So, the easiest solution was to implement two separate actions – one for the title, another for the date. ![]() Unlike in Apple’s Reminders app, it’s not possible to type both the reminder’s title and due date in the same line of text and have Shortcuts extract the date portion from it while leaving the rest of the sentence intact Shortcuts can interpret dates found in a string of text such as “Buy Nintendo Switch tomorrow at 2 PM”, but it can’t isolate the non-date part (“Buy Nintendo Switch”) and use it as a variable. There are some interesting implementation details regarding how I put together New Reminder+ and worked around the limitations of Shortcuts’ Reminders actions. You can use New Reminder+ to add 10 new tasks in succession, or you can add only one and be done with it – the shortcut is flexible enough to support any number of new reminders you want.Īdding the title for a new reminder with New Reminder+. The shortcut is called New Reminder+ and it’s designed to let you add multiple reminders in a row: to accomplish this, once a reminder has been added, the shortcut runs itself again over and over until you tell it to stop. So, obviously, I came up with a shortcut that lets me add multiple reminders in a row, each assigned to a different list, without giving up on natural language input for dates and times. While I highly appreciate Reminders’ new natural language input, I recently realized I often find myself wanting to perform a “brain dump” of multiple tasks I keep in my head in one go, and Reminders’ current design isn’t exactly optimized for that. I was already using the Reminders framework before with GoodTask, but with iOS 13’s redesigned Reminders, I’ve gone all-in with Apple’s official app. Let’s dig in.Īs I detailed in my iOS and iPadOS 13 review, I’m a big fan of Apple’s new Reminders app. Furthermore, I share a simple shortcut to quickly resume audio playback of any HomePod around the house and detail a new version of an old shortcut, which I’ve updated for iOS 13, made more flexible, and integrated with the rest of the system. In this week’s installment of the Shortcuts Corner, I share a custom Reminders-specific shortcut I’ve built to customize and enhance my daily experience with Apple’s task manager. ![]() The Shortcuts Corner is a regular section of our MacStories Weekly newsletter, exclusive to Club MacStories members, where I share advanced shortcuts and respond to readers’ requests for automation.
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