Hey everyone!

Some of you might know me from making Node, and AI assistant shortcut. Well, I have good news because version 5 is out now!

What’s new:

- Silent Run feature — You can now automate when you run Node with a predetermined prompt. You can get things like a daily briefing or instant summaries of emails.

- Share Sheet integration — Share PDF’s, images, text, or articles with Node and ask about them, just click share.

- Bug fixes — Fixed the memory system.

What Node can do:

- Node can add items like events, reminders, and notes

- You can also ask it anything else, it’s completely powered by Mistral AI.

- Complete integration with your phone, ask about your screen, schedule, or maybe the weather.

- All through Apple Shortcuts, no apps needed.

Links:

Download: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/925c128d0e9645b3b615c5fd3e84ee30

Download Silent Run: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/60019ec6e50c4e078fdd2a92e02fbfbf

My website: …

Hello, my fellow addicts!

I have the unhealthy habit of smoking cigarettes and have been trying to quit for some time now. To visualize my progress and motivate myself, I’ve built this ‘Sober Since…’ Shortcut that shows how long I’ve been quitting.

⭐️Features: - The Shortcut has two different access modes. The first is achieved by starting the Shortcut from the Shortcut App and the other mode is achieved by starting the Shortcut outside of the Shortcut App. - For a quick overview, the Shortcut label is updated every time you start it outside the Shortcuts App or have it updated by an Automation (best run shortly after the time of the beginning of your quitting). - You can place and launch the Shortcut as a widget on the home screen or in the control center to get a more detailed view of its progress. - Light/- and Darkmode support. - It is possible to restart the timer if you have a fallback (the number of attempts is counted up automatically). - The …

Here’s a simple button to play the “Apple Pay Success” sound effect. Just for pranking your friends like tapping their phone with yours and run the shortcut. A bit useless but funny :)

Download: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1b49d15cc47d4fa893de01cbcc061c82

I have made the most advanced anti theft shortcut ever. It takes a photo of the person who stole your phone. It send and organized text to whoever you want. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2e368cbec3144e68a3c3991869c1cafd New and improved

This next one is for you if you want to have some form of authentication before you do anything

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f482a98b08d5475db99ce95e289bf664

This next one is for emergency situations for you and your family. If you’re ever in a dangerous situation this will send your current location and it will give whoever you wanted to send to a video of what is currently happening. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d8a9a313736541f3962ee9f72d7c3e96

Not some big automation setup. Just a tiny thing that took 2 mins but now you use it constantly.
For me it was a GPT that turns bullet points into full emails.
Would love to steal ideas—what’s yours?

This is my first time making a complex shortcut with inspiration from this sub. I made a shortcut to bind to my action key to have additional functions based on context. Just looking to see if there’s anyway to optimize it. I plan on sharing it with my girlfriend which is why I have a few redundant if statements that all toggle silent mode. Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2842ced40f1d4e4ab7771dc81d7fb59a

Love me some crazy true crime, so obviously that is welcomed but I am doing my first solo road trip and I’ve been struggling to find something that will enthrall me enough to stay sucked in for this six hour drive I’m about to make. Can be (almost) ANYTHING (nothing with animal abuse though please! that’s my sensi area). What was a podcast or episode you just couldn’t get enough of?? True crime flair but it does not need to be!

Wondering what everyone is listening to now a days.

What podcast do you listen to religiously, never miss an episode.

Looking forward to seeing everyone list.

I’m a huge history lover and am looking for podcasts that go deep into historical topics. I’m not looking for podcasts with banter or a long opening of jokes and chit chat, but rather podcasts that dive right in and approach the subject matter seriously.

I am interested in all areas of history. A huge plus would be podcasts that don’t have ads! I know that’s asking for a lot. I listen to The History of English podcast and love it.

Any recommendations where people discuss books. Different genres and ideally more than one person episode.

Thanks

Hi everyone. A week ago I found out I got cheated on by the man I thought I was going to marry. It came out of no where- literally right after our one year anniversary. I’m grieving, I’m so sad, so hurt. I can’t listen to music and have been relying on podcast to fill some time.

I have listened to a handful of Mel Robbin’s podcasts on repeat which I have loved, but I want some more to listen to.

Please recommend the best ones to listen to to help get through this heartbreak and to feel better about myself. Thank you ❤️

Can you help?

I’m talking about the stuff that leaves u thinking about it for months, the stuff that has you crying or up thinking about it for ages, or has just genuinely blown you away. Some I’ve read & would love w/ the same vibe include; I who have never known men, piranesi, the spear cuts through water (also the vanished birds), the fifth season trilogy, the library at Mount char, Alien clay, we have always lived in the castle, & project hail Mary (okay some of these are not the best books I’ve ever read lol but also books on a similar vein as these)

I try to give books a fair chance, but there are some I just cannot push through. No matter how popular or “life-changing” they’re supposed to be, I sometimes find myself staring at the page thinking… am I missing something?

I really tried to read The Secret. So many people rave about it, and I was curious. But honestly? It felt like the same idea was being repeated over and over again just phrased slightly differently each time. After a few chapters, I realized I was reading entire pages and absorbing nothing because my mind had already checked out. I couldn’t keep going.

Has this happened to anyone else? What’s a book you genuinely couldn’t finish, and why? Was it the writing, the tone, the repetition or just not for you?

It can just be that the writing was so confusing that the book was nearly incoherent. It can be a book where the characters continually made weird choices. It can be a book that’s really well written but what’s happening is so far out of left field that you can’t stop asking, “What????” The good kind of unhinged, the bad kind of unhinged, the kind of unhinged you aren’t sure about, the grotesque - tell me about any of these.

They’re all (that I’ve read) are: In America or Future America or Pretending Not to be But Actually America or Surprise! It Was America All Along and I Was Keeping It a Secret Until Now! or Protagonist So American They Can Americanise the Planet

Every. Single. One.

Bonus points if it’s well written and not a Hunger Games copycat

Nothing is hitting, every book I start feels meh, and my TBR is judging me silently from the shelf. I need a book that will ruin me in the best way — romance, thriller, fantasy, I don’t care — just something unputdownable.

Drop your favorites. Save a reader today.

P.S. Thank you so much, everyone, for your amazing book recommendations! I did my best to reply to all your comments. There are now so many books I’m excited to read, all thanks to you. My to-be-read list is officially bigger than my lifespan! I’m not sure which book or audiobook will truly help me right now, but trust me when I say—I’m trying. I really miss reading, and there’s nothing I enjoy more than getting lost in a good book. Your comments have been incredibly helpful!

People here recommended Dungeon Crawler Carl enough times that I eventually just said, “ok, I’ll check it out.” I bought the first book and about half way through, I bought the next 6. It’s been a while since I was this distracted by the desire to read instead of do anything else. I’m halfway through book 3 and I can’t get enough. So, I just wanted to thank everyone. I’m loving this series.

I’m interested in any kind of game where there’s a world/universe full of NPCs just going about their own lives, but not just on the surface level to make the world appear alive. I want there to be a deep simulation going on so that however I interact with the world and the characters, it has consequences that might be difficult for me to predict.

Not Dwarf Fortress/Rimworld - I tried them, but they’re not for me. I guess I want something that’s got that kind of deep, underlying world simulation, but with game mechanics that are easier or more casual to get into.

I just love the concept of “go to the mountain village and find no one remembers who they are”, “go to the fishing village where all the fish are poisoned” etc. Something great about them all having a little theme and mystery to solve. Dragon Quest games are usually a pretty good example.

Want to know about some games where the tutorial gives you wildly wrong information, either making you play the game wrong or setting a trap to try and kill you.

I just love the idea that the tutorial helper who is supposed to teach you the game mechanics purposefully teach you the wrong things.

The only game that comes to mind so far is Flowey from undertale.

Edit Don’t tell me who the betrayer actually is! Or how they trick me. I want it to be a surprise when I play the game.

I believe that everyone has encountered a situation where a game they thought they wouldn’t like actually ended up being - if not a favorite - then at least much, much better than they would have given it credit for at first. I’m no exception to this.

Just to give a quick example, while I was searching for something casual to play at work, I found Ctrl Alt Deal, or the demo version of it that’s out right now. My first thought was - what is this goofy looking cyberpunk office simulator? But that “wtf cyberpunk office simulator” turned out to be pretty nice for the free bang it gave me that day at work. Some deck management coupled with decision making, so all in all a decent couple of hours of casual fun to take real office problems off my mind during my downtime.

Also, one other game that took me a long time to try, but once I did, I ended up spending 20 hours in it, was Schedule 1. I never imagined that being a drug dealer could be that fun. Since I …

I find it very frustrating that it is so hard to find a game that lets me play a sword wielding magic user who sucks the life or souls from their victims.

I’m talking the Lich King fantasy from the Warcraft universe, death knights akin to that.

Specifically NOT diablo 4 necromancer, and not a necromancer in general - a warrior/necromancer hybrid who uses a sword (not just as a stat stick). I feel like no game lets me immersive myself in that fantasy.

I’ve played Elden Ring and Dark souls, diablo 3 and 4, a little bit of PoE 1, PoE 2 still hasnt gotten swords yet so no luck there. Baldurs Gate 3 is in my library but I was hoping for no turn based combat.

Is it at all possible? Is there an ARPG out there in which I can wield a Runeblade and swing it around while sucking the life energy from my foes?

I’ve been struggling to find the right game and I feel like I’ve tried everything. So I’m hoping someone here can help me figure out what I’m actually looking for.

What I’m looking for:

• A long-term game I can keep coming back to for weeks or months
• Keyboard + mouse preferred (not really into controller-heavy stuff right now)
• I want to build something — a base, a city, a civilization, a farm, etc.
• I want progression: making things more efficient, stronger, better over time
• Ideally something a bit relaxing — not super fast-paced or stressful
• Something I can enjoy in short bursts (30–60 min sessions) but also get hooked long term
• Bonus points if it’s satisfying/addictive and feels great to improve in

What I’ve tried:

• Clash of Clans: This has been my go-to for years. I love seeing my base grow over time. Now I want something like that but on PC.
• Palworld: Didn’t click. Too much grinding just to make exploration viable. Felt like a chore.
• Civilization VI: Too many buttons and menus. …