Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using iOS Shortcuts to keep going

Using iOS Shortcuts can be a powerful way to do some custom things with your tasks.

This week’s tip—tips!—is pszaro showing three different ways to use Shortcuts: to add tasks from webpages, to show upcoming tasks quickly, and to complete a repeating task when doing something else.

Three great ways to show you what kinds of things can be done with iOS Shortcuts!

Creating a task to follow up from Safari

I am currently using a shortcut to create a task to follow up from a particular URL in Safari. Basically, once setup, when in Safari, I click the share button and select “Create Task in RTM to Follow Up”. Behind the scenes, it performs the following:

Creates a task: “Follow Up With This: ”, due today, with a high priority and an estimated 15 min. It also adds a note with the exact URL pointing back to the original URL.

So, when I have time to follow up, I click on the link in the Tasks and perform the needed action.

Today and Tomorrow shortcuts

I also have two shortcut icons on the phone, called “Today” and “Tomorrow”. Inside each shortcut, it performs a bunch of queries (Show calendar schedule, Check for any scheduled deliveries, etc). One of those entries is to show my tasks that are due “Today” and “Tomorrow” in RTM, depending on which shortcut I execute. It’s a quick way to see what is happening “Today” and “Tomorrow”.

Tracking your daily walks

I have been going for daily 4 mile walks now for years. Likewise, I have a daily repeating task called “Daily Walk!”. I have it set up now with Personal Automation that once I end my “Outdoor Walk” workout on my Apple Watch, it will automatically complete my “Daily Walk!” task.

Thanks for sharing these tips, pszaro! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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