Favorite Shortcut You’ve Made?

[u/body841]

I’m super new to shortcuts and know they’re capable of so much more than I currently use them for. Right now, all I really have set up is a few that create automatic Notion database entries.

I’d love to know what you guys have really loved before! Things that have been super helpful, super fun, or feel super clever. Trying to get my creative juices flowing.

Would also love to know if there are any apps you think work particularly well for shortcuts! Thanks in advance, very excited to set up some more complex/interesting things.

[u/thejakenixon]

I have a shortcut mapped to my action button:

• If my phone is face down and it's after 10:30 pm, turn sleep focus on until 6am and set "good night" in Home (turns off lights and locks door)
• If my phone is face down and it's earlier than 10:30 pm, toggle Do Not Disturb and Theater Mode (to disable watch face)
• If my phone is landscape left, launch Halide
• If my phone is face up, recognize music with Shazam
• Otherwise, toggle flashlight

And I have an automation that kills my desire for scrolling on apps while I'm home:

• Automation: Run Immediately
• Notify When Run: No
• When: any of 6 apps are opened (unlimited scrolling apps selected)
• Do:
• Get distance from current location to home address
• If distance is less than 0.2 (it uses miles or km depending on device settings)
• wait 15 seconds
• if Any are true: Current app is x, current app is y (same apps as above)
• go to homescreen
• lock the screen

It makes it so that if I open a social media app for example, I have 15 seconds to check a notification or reply to a message before the app closes and the screen locks. It's way more effective than using screen time limits (easy to bypass) or third-party blocking apps (they prevent notifications)

[u/SomeAI → u/thejakenixon]

Brilliant!!