Made an automation to run this an hour before lunch and dinner. I work from home, and getting vitamin D is hard for me lol.

Instead needing to open my employee schedule in Notes, since widgets only show the first few lines, I set an automation to rename the (yellow) shortcut every morning. If I click it then it opens the note. 100% made my life a little easier.

Red also has an automation so I can see how many days it’s been, purple I made as an example.

I have recently fallen in love with how shortcuts adds flairs to the daily activities that we do on the iPhone. The one which is so simple and stands out for me is to keep track of my reditt addiction or monitor my good habits like reading books on my iPad/iPhone.

The trick that I use is to simply activate a stopwatch as soon as I open reditt or any other app that I want to track my hours spent.

This helps me in cutting down on my addictions or hang on longer to my good habits like reading books.

It is very basic but very effective.

The app is totally free(no IAP) in App Store and open source in GitHub: https://github.com/zizicici/Off-Day

Apple seems to never quite understand when users will have a holiday, and users always forget to turn off their alarms the night before a holiday. That’s where this app comes in.

Shortcuts Description: Users can select specific date as either a Work Day or an Off Day in this app. By combining Shortcuts with the actions provided by Off Day, users can easily automate the turning on and off of alarms.

Shortcuts Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/baede9581b5e4982b95005610c6fb7a3

Set Off Day or Work Day by Tapping

Additionally, the app offers other features such as public holiday templates and Conflict Day detection. I hope everyone enjoys it!

Actions of Off Day

And App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6501973975

Hey everyone!

So hyped to announce Node v4 ✨ already! (I know it has only been a week since v3 but I have been working on it a lot)

Whether you’re planning your day or dropping a quick reminder, Node handles the busywork so you don’t have to.

✨ What Node can do for you:

📅 Add or fetch Calendar events in plain language

⏰ Create Reminders with due times & lists

📝 Add quick Notes without opening the Notes app

💬 Ask it anything, it is completely powered by AI

📱 On-screen awareness for better integration and context

⚙️ All through Apple Shortcuts, zero setup needed

✨ What’s New in v4:

🆓 No more agent ID — just install & go

⚡️ Fully optimized with Mistral Large + Mistral Small for speed and accuracy

🐛 Bug fixes — no more infinite loops or broken flows, plus improved memory to better remember your preferences

🧠 How Node works under the hood:

Node doesn’t just react — it reasons.

It uses multi-step prompting to understand what you want, plan how to do it, and take …

Good morning! I’m trying to set up a shortcut on my son’s phone. Right now I’ve got: At 35% turn low battery on, send message to Mom, send message to Dad. I’d like it then to check if it’s charging (if it’s been put on the charger after the messages) and if it is to turn low power mode off. I tried an if condition but I didn’t see anything related to the battery, so then I changed it to a wait condition, then to get the battery status and if charging turn low power mode off. Not sure if it will work how I want or if I can do anything better. Any help would be appreciated!

I just finished the Who’s Afraid of LaDonna Humphrey episodes of PRETEND and spiraled back into the podcast rabbit hole. I want to lean in to the obsession and use it to force myself into spring cleaning.

I love immersive, investigative shows that unfold one case or person over a full season. Think In The Dark, Serial, Back to Bardstown, Scamanda, The Thing About Pam, Something Was Wrong, and The Girlfriends. I also REALLY loved Noble. That glimpse into the crematorium/death industry was WILD, with reporting that felt so human.

Really, I’m here for anything compelling, layered, and bingeable. I love the gag-worthy moments that you never saw coming. I like dark in some instances, but more than anything I enjoy a glimpse into the human psyche.

What else should I be listening to?

I saw a post recently with lots of suggestions of investigative journalism podcasts but so many were true crime. Would love any non-violent suggestions! Thank you!

I’m looking for podcasts that make you marvel at the extent of human creativity and ask how on earth did anyone come up with this? The weirder and more inexplicable, the better. Probably the weirdest podcasts I listen to are Imaginary Advice and The Beef And Dairy Network.

I really want to be able to learn more about the world, like about politics and even spirituality. I’m very far left but I want something that will teach me specifically what is going wrong in the world and like deep interpersonal type thinking on how to go about fixing it. Idk if that makes sense but I want like some deep philosophical discussion, with facts and easy to understand language. Something that feels very transcendentalist.

I am curious to know what podcasts do you listen to as soon as they are released? Here is my list in no particular order:

-Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend -We’re Here to Help -Bad Friends -Arm Chair Expert (particularly Arm Chair Anonymous episodes) -This American Life -Good Hang (Amy Poehler’s new podcast that seems pretty great so far) -How Did This Get Made -Nobody’s Listening Right -Search Engine

Thought this would be a fun game. I’ve taken a lot of recommendations from this sub, but my favorite has been Breaking Points so far

Like the title suggests: I am a 32F mom of two. I’ve been battling leukaemia for about a year and half and two weeks ago I got told that there isn’t anything to be done. I have less than a year.

Not afraid of death, and in a way this doesn’t feel like a surprise to me. I’m horribly sad to leave my 4yo daughter and 6yo son.

I’m looking for a book to help me navigate planning my own death.

I am curious if there are some books like that. I read one a long time ago that I can’t really remember. But the MMC was sexualized in that book but that was kind off the point of his character.

I want my jaw on the floor. I want to be gagged, gooped, discombobulated. I want my edges snatched. I want to be in need of eye drops because my eyes have been bugged out for so long they dried out!

I’m open to any genre just NOT fantasy (I cannot deal with stories with dragons and made up languages, I’m sorry).

Y’all got anything like that for me?

Which book or books made you rethink life?

I want to read a book again that I can barely put down. Personally I prefer something in the scifi, fantasy, dystopia or YA genres, but if you think there’s a book from a different genre that I must read, I’m open to suggestions.

Last few books I enjoyed reading:

• A deadly education - Naomi Novik

• Scythe - Neal Shusterman

• The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin

• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

• House of Stairs - William Sleator

My 11 year old daughter devours books at an alarming rate. Her current fixation is stories that can pull emotion from her. She wants to be a writer and is interested in expanding her abilities to do this in her own writing. She just finished Bridge to Terabithia. She LOVED it. She can read and understand quite a bit above her age/grade, but isn’t interested in anything with “bow chica bow wow” as we put it lol she’s okay with some gore- she has read most of the Warrior Cats series and arcs. Not too big on spooky, as she reads at night on her kindle, mostly.

Thanks!

EDIT: thanks for all of the wonderful titles! She will pick her way through these as she reads the suggestions. Should keep her busy for the summer!

Me personally I’d say the walking dead game.. it definitely had me crying more than once

Preferably with character customization

So im basically looking for a singleplayer game, im fking tired of mmos, p2w, subs, expansion, and never ending focus on dungeons/raid focus + i want to play at my own pace and time.

The thing is that i love things that usually are only or mostly present in mmorpgs, like character customization, and the whole leveling progression in which u start killing wolfs and the like with a club or piece of wood then at the end u a fking god and look badass af.

Idk if my explanation was good but i cant word it better, sry

Edit: i was not expecting such high number of replies 😅, thanks everyone, and so far i have seen some veeery interesting recomendations that i will surelly take a deeper look and even try out some of them. Keep the sugestions coming 👍🏻

When I heard you couldn’t ride the subway, or order some noodles at a food stand in Cyberpunk, it actually put me off the game. I’m not saying I’m right, and it’s not a good game because of it, but I’m saying that these sorts of things are important to me, particularly in open world games.

I think RDR2 probably does it best? But other than that, what games do you actually feel like you’re living in?

Looking for immersive mechanics, and interactive worlds where you cannot only behave like you live there, eat, drink, sleep, but what you do affects the world and the people in that world too.

Any suggestions along these lines?

Thanks for any help! :)

I love fallout and cdda and many other games like it but i feel like most post apocalypse just fall between those two categories so im wondering if there are any interesting games with other apocalypse causes (ie frostpunk), game genre doesnt matter.

Hi there! I am loving the improved archery in Oblivion: Remastered and it got me thinking: What are some of the best games featuring the best archery gameplay?

This is wide open - it can be first person like Oblivion or even third-person like the elven archers in Warhammer! Just awesome archery. Thank you!