![]() ![]() I will be re-tooling a bunch of my Shortcuts to support Things in this new incarnation, but as a start, I thought I would share a first fast one I whipped up: I get a lot of requests for my Shortcuts to support Things, but that hasn’t been possible until this new version (previous versions' Shortcuts actions basically all landed you in the Things interface, without being able to otherwise read, manipulate, or share Things data). Recently, Cultured Code, the group behind the task management app Things, shared that the upcoming 3.17 version woul include deeper support for Shortcuts. Shortcut with Things: Meeting Prep Email.Things Meeting Prep Email Shortcut → → 9:04 AM, Jan 24 It also asks if the tag is the greeting (the common use case is for a tag that is a person’s name). And, because this uses the Get selected items action, it can be invoked from Siri (or Share Sheet or Spotlight), so I can speak the tag to add.Ĭonverting an OmniFocus Shortcut for use with the new Things 3.17 Shortcut actions ( currently in beta released publicly!), here is a Shortcut that asks for the name of a tag, then adds anything with that tag to a list in an email. ![]() I like this because I can select a bunch of tasks for tagging at once (read: inbox) and not use the tag selector. Here is another Things Shortcut that takes selected tasks and tags them with a tag named through ask for input. Useful for referencing files in a Things task or Agenda note! → 2:38 PM, Apr 17 I use this via Finder Quick Actions, so that I can right-click → Quick Actions → Copy link to file, and then I have a link to the file on my clipboard. It doesn’t work cross-platform, because there doesn’t seem to be a URL scheme for Files on i(Pad)OS (but please let me know if I’m wrong!). At least some cursory web searches suggested I’m not the only one, so even if there is a simple way, it is not simply found □ I worry that this is wildly engineered, but I couldn’t find an easy way (or way at all?) to quickly grab a URL to a file on my Mac. ![]()
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