Next week on AppStories, Federico and John share their favorite third-party apps with deep Shortcuts integration. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John dig into Severance, the TV+ show that is one of their favorite shows of 2022 so far....
Member Story: Matthew Cassinelli
Twitter: @mattcassinelli; Website: matthewcassinelli.com. Teaching Apple tech and automation with Shortcuts and creator of the Shortcuts Catalog. The Backstory of Matthew Cassinelli’s Shortcuts Catalog Hello fellow Club MacStories members! Federico asked me to write about the backstory to my Shortcuts Catalog that I released last week, so I’m thrilled to explain why I’m doing this...
In This Issue
Alex fixes a shortcoming of Discord, John recommends Triage 2, a reader story from Matthew Cassinelli, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStories podcast episodes....
Introducing Discord Links that Open Directly in the App
Discord allows users to share links to messages, which is a great way to share a conversation on a specific topic, except that they don’t open in the Discord app by default. Unlike other messaging apps that use URL schemes to open message links in their associated app, Discord takes you to the web, often...
Automation April: Shortcuts Workshop Part 2
Club MacStories Town Halls are part of the monthly and other special live audio events we hold in the Club MacStories+ Discord community. The show is a recorded and lightly edited version of the Town Halls that we produce, so Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members who can’t attend the event live can listen later. To learn more about Club MacStories+ and Club Premier, visit our Club plans page.
Federico and John are joined by Joe Hribar, the creator of Timery, the Toggl time tracking app, to talk about magic and declared variables, action parameters and how Timery makes use of them, automation triggers, and our hope that Apple will allow third-party apps to act as triggers in the future.
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Interview: Rodrigo Araújo
Twitter:@rodrigoaraujo. Developer ofChartyandChatStats. What do Charty’s Shortcuts actions allow users to do? Charty’s mission is to provide an easy way to create beautiful data visualizations on iOS. So, its actions were designed to provide quick ways for users to input data, style their charts and export them as images. This way, Charty users can create...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John cover some of the shortcuts they’ve created for Automation April and how they went about solving some of the trickier challenges each of them posed. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico recommends WeCrashed, the story of the rise and fall of WeWork, the TV+ series based...
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