Shortcuts Library
Note that this page is in progress. I’m working on bringing all my shortcuts home to this website. But until they’ve been moved into their permanent home here, you can continue to find some on RoutineHub.
Welcome to the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library! It’s the home for shortcuts created by me, Jarrod Blundy. I love automation generally, and Shortcuts specifically. It has unlocked endless creative possibilities for making my gadgets work better for me, and maybe it will for you, too. Whether you use the shortcuts below only once, every single day, or just to learn more about automation, I hope they help make your computers more useful.
You can find all of my Shortcuts-related blog posts, including step-by-step explainers, right here.
Library Stats
Total number of shortcuts in the library: 36
Last updated: 2024-12-13
Clean up long Amazon item URLs and apply your Affiliate ID.
Upload a bunch of images to Micro.blog at once.
Convert a Markdown-formatted text post into a Threads-compatible one, complete with auto-threaded image descriptions.
Count the number of rich text characters in a post so it can be edited to be within the Timeline’s limit.
Automatically create both a Things to-do and a Drafts note with links back to each other.
Dictate a note into a variety of apps without any fuss or on-screen buttons to tap.
Learn more about any emoji.
Quickly and effortlessly follow a list of YouTube channel subscriptions in Play.
Automatically generate an image description using OpenAI’s API.
Get basic info about a YouTube video and package it up for use elsewhere.
Create URL(s) to run shortcuts from anywhere that you can paste text.
Fetch a random bit of Merlin Mann’s wisdom.
Calculate a per day, week, and month amount you’ll need to save up for the Vision Pro.
Create a spoken version of any text and save it as an audio file.
Easily save and share your favorite memes as Markdown text.
Set up and post your daily photo for the Micro.blog Community Photoblogging Challenge.
Upload any file to Micro.blog and format it for your blog post.
Open the full conversation for a reply on Micro.blog from its URL.
Open the Threads app as a step of a posting workflow.
Open the website to play Wordle, delete the screenshot of your grid, and then go back to the task to complete it.
Publish a copied blockquote, with or without commentary, to Micro.blog.
Publish text to your Micro.blog without any frills.
Easily rewrite text with ChatGPT to be within a given character limit.
Save different kinds of links to specific apps for reviewing later.
Get the currently playing podcast’s show notes from Overcast and save them for later.
Easily add your weekly work shifts to your calendar on particular days of the week.
Upload an image to Micro.blog with minimal interaction and frills.
Get Apple Watch Stand Goal credit in an hour of your choice when your watch doesn’t accurately record your stand hours.
Help track the hours that Overcast’s Smart Speed has saved you over time.
Easily share any file online using Micro.blog uploads.
Encode any text to be used in a URL.
Be the fastest to whip out the meme about whispering the titular character of a movie’s name to your date when they first appear on-screen.
Make shared Wordle results even more accessible by converting emojis to images and adding alt text.
Launch directly into specific parts of the YouTube app without distraction.
Commissions
Got a shortcut you need made? I make (and fix) them on commission! I’ll make a bespoke automation to speed up your workflow. Want to chat about it first? Please reach out!
Here’s a public example of a commission I completed for Matt Langford’s Tiny Theme plugin.
How to Use
After downloading a shortcut from its library page, it will live in your Shortcuts app. There, you can tap on one to run it. Or tap the … button to edit it.
Anyone is welcome to freely download, customize, and redistribute shortcuts from the HeyDingus Library. They are provided for free out of love for the Shortcuts community and in the hope that they’ll help someone else to create or do something wonderful. Although it isn’t required, I would appreciate attribution if you use or share my shortcuts.
If you’re new to building or using Shortcuts, you can find my Shortcuts Tips and related blog posts here.
Here are a few resources for getting started with the Shortcuts app:
- Apple’s official Shortcuts guide
- The Shortcuts User Group on Discord, run by Matthew Cassinelli, for finding other folks interested in building and using Shortcuts
- And some other places that are great for learning about Shortcuts
Unless necessary to communicate with a third-party web API, my shortcuts don’t rely on any external framework and/or dependencies to automatically update shortcuts or perform API calls that are not explicitly mentioned in the shortcut’s description. You can find my Terms of Use below.
The library will be updated with new shortcuts over time. Updates will be shared on the social web via the @jarrod and @heydingus@mas.to accounts.
Terms of Use
The shortcuts in the HeyDingus Library were tested for compatibility with the then-current versions of Apple’s operating systems and the Shortcuts app when they were added to HeyDingus.net. You are welcome to use these shortcuts and modify them to suit your needs. However, please note that there is no guarantee that they will remain compatible with future updates to Apple’s operating systems or the Shortcuts app.
It’s important to understand that the shortcuts on HeyDingus.net are provided free of charge and “as-is,” without any express or implied warranties. This includes warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. The writers at HeyDingus.net (the “HeyDingus Team”) do not make any specific promises about the shortcuts, their specific functions, reliability, availability, or ability to meet your needs.
Furthermore, the HeyDingus Team will not be liable to you for any lost profits or other consequential, special, indirect, or incidental damages arising from or related to your use of the shortcuts.
Other Awesome Shortcuts
Here are some more shortcuts I use that were made by other talented people.
Follow Mastodon User on Micro.blog by Robb Knight
Special Thanks
I want to recognize some folks for their help in bringing the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library to life:
- The MacStories Team for the inspiration to curate and host my own library and for permitting me to reuse some of their legalese for this page.
- Matthew Cassinelli for always being game to troubleshoot a pesky issue, plus for running the ever-helpful Shortcuts User Group and the What’s New in Shortcuts newsletter (where he’s highlighted a few of mine 😊).