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I love Apple Shortcuts and have made a few to help me capture ideas quickly.

Quicker note capturing

I use the Back Tap Accessibility feature to let me open up a quick note or start a voice recording, transcribe it, and dump the text and audio into a new note. First, I created my Transcribe Shortcut. Here’s what it does: Transcribe Shortcut Next, go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch and scroll down to turn on Back Tap. I have my Double Tap set to show a Quick Note and my Triple Tap set to launch the Transcribe Shortcut. It might only save me a few clicks, but the fewer menus I have to go through or things I have to tap, the more likely I am to actually remember what I needed to capture.
Gotta say, you have to REALLY tap the back of the phone pretty sharply. Good for not accidentally taking a voice memo, can be annoying if I'm not tapping hard enough. Works through Apple Wallet.

Better Recommendations

Friends tell me about books and movies I should check out and I constantly forget:
  1. What the actual name of the thing was
  2. Who recommended it
  3. Why I should check it out
So, I cobbled together a Shortcut to ask those questions, tag it as a Book/Movie/Other, and save the output in my Reminders App under a Recommendations List. I have this saved as an icon on my Home Screen and when I tap it, I get a prompt that asks:
  1. Is this a book, movie, or other?
  2. What’s the title?
  3. Who recommended it?
  4. Summary - why they recommended it or a synopsis of the plot
It ends up looking like this in my Recommendations Reminder list: From there, I can sort it into the relevant column (Books/Movies/Other) based on the tag. Recommendations Shortcut
  • Rae