I feel so stupid for not knowing the true power of Shortcuts from last 2 years since I bought my iPhone 13PM. I always saw this app as just another usual utility app in the phone which I just removed from Homescreen. Until 2 Months ago when I discovered this sub reddit and everything changed. I am now obsessed with shortcuts and continue to play around and discover more about how to do cool stuff and automate things etc. etc.
I strongly believe Shortcuts app is probably one of the best things that has happened to iPhones. Cannot wait to see more development with shortcuts and make more cool stuff with it.
Also a MASSIVE THANK YOU to you all for sharing your wonderful shortcuts/works and being soo helpful all the time.
I previously commented this in a discussion, but thought I should post with the Sharing flair.
1st: Power Nap. It checks my calendar to make sure my nap doesn’t interfere with any events, suggests what research considers the most effective power nap times, sets an alarm, and sets my sleep focus until wake up time.
2nd: This Hydration Tracker from @AmirKamangar allows me to log different drinks, shows my estimated BAC, caloric info, caffeine content, and recommended daily limit for caffeine. Amir’s original allows you to log weight as well, but I have adjusted it for my own needs.
3rd: Order Takeout. This keeps a log of when I order takeout and automatically opens my preferred takeout app. It shows the log every time I order, and if I have ordered takeout more than 3 times that month, I hit “cancel.” You’ll also need the View Takeout Log shortcut as well.
4th: Remind me at work The typical Remind Me at Work shortcut, except it creates a reminder due today. I like viewing my Today …
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/75cf4a27683d4b9dae9ba632298f9fb6
So I recently created a pretty simple yet powerful tool!
This takes a screenshot of your screen, transcribes it into texts and then opens up the share sheet!
I use it for quick second brain Notion notes
I thought y’all would find it pretty helpful! 😎
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There are plenty of podcasts interviewing people with prestigious jobs like executives or film directors, but I want to hear about what it’s like to be a taxi driver in a great amount of detail. Or line cook or mechanic or security guard. I want to know the most usual and unusual situations they deal with, what skills they’ve acquired from their jobs, stuff like that.
Something kind of like Ologies but instead of a scientific or academic topic, each episode takes a deep dive into the behind-the-scenes parts of jobs we see people doing every day. Is there anything like this?
The number of new podcasts launched fell by nearly 80% between 2020 and 2022 — and seems to keep dropping. Has podcasting moved from gold rush to mature market?
a what do you fellow podcast listeners think and feel about this? Taken from niemanlabs dot org article . I find there is no shortage of good stuff. But would be ok with more good history podcasts, realizing that may be a niche market.
So after all this time of making fun of people eating horse paste, I figured that it’d probably be a good idea to learn what specifically was the reasoning behind such things.
Basically, Pierre Kory was a critical care doctor that found a bunch of studies showing that ivermectin was, in his words, “a miracle drug” for covid. Then, a college student in the UK was assigned to critique the most well-known of these, a study out of Egypt(?), and long story short, unearthed that this study, and indeed the vast majority of studies that showed ivermectin to be an effective treatment for covid, were either deeply flawed or outright fraudulent-as in, taking patients who had already died from covid, outside the study, and using them to inflate the number of people who were not given ivermectin and then died from covid. After a while, Canada runs a proper study that shows no significant statistical benefit to ivermectin, and that among other things, you were just as likely to wind up in the …
For good reason, many of you listening will think of this story as a desperate tragedy, a dark episode to be deeply regretted. But if I were making a film about the Fourth Crusade right now, it would be a black comedy. After all, a crusade was a pilgrimage, a sacred journey to cleanse souls. But thanks to the relentless lying, foolishness, and greed of its leaders, the Fourth Crusade quickly became a grotesque parody of such a mission.
https://shows.acast.com/thehistoryofbyzantium/episodes/episode-259-the-fourth-crusade-part-1
Pope Innocent calls for a new Crusade to retake Jerusalem. A group of French Knights decide to form an expedition to Egypt and make a deal with Venice to transport them. But when they can’t pay the bill the mission goes awry and ends up at Constantinople.
What do you recommend for ancient history that is less scholarly and more light hearted and fun or maybe even a bit funny? I love learning about this topic but sometimes it’s hard to listen when things are dry and strictly factual.
Hi,
This question has been asked a million times, but when looking through older posts I don’t find anything applicable for my taste.
I’m having trouble sleeping, and the usual sleep podcasts like Sleep With Me don’t really do it for me. However, podcasts surrounding a topic usually do the trick for me. Examples that I’ve used to listen to are Inside The Black Box, Stuff You Should Know, Dan Carlin Hardcore History, Revolutions and Unexplained Mysteries. I basically like a podcast that’s interesting enough to grab my attention, but not so intriguing that I can’t fall asleep.
I prefer mysteries (not true crime though), but anything that has a documentary or storytelling vibe to it is up my alley.
Thanks!
Edit: Thank you for all the answers! I’m not on Reddit that often, but I’m super happy that this got a fair amount of answers. You’ve given me a ton of good recommendations that I’ll definitely check out!
My hobby is reading bad books because I like reading them aloud to my husband and having a chuckle. We’ve already made it through fifty shades of grey so any other recommendations would be welcome.
Looking for light fun reading with some sexy energy, but every book seems to have a tortured terrible main male figure and dumb woman, who overlooks it because he makes her vag quiver. I just can’t get into it. It reads so stupid to me. I believe good men are sexy. Not criminals or men with severe mental trauma. And I don’t like it being suggested that women give all of themselves to terrible men. It is such an old narrative.
ETA. Thank you all so much!! This list looks great. And you all are so fast to respond. I just started to get back into reading and I really want books that suck me in and are fun to read. I am excited to check all these out!
i recently read agatha christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and my dumbass thought i was sooo smart thinking i had nailed the murderer after 20 min of reading it to the point that i almost DNF’d it thinking the book was super lazily written and the killer TOO obvious, but then when it was revealed who actually did it, i screamed and threw my book because i was SHOCKED! i love being thrown for a loop like that and i want to feel this way again!!
i already know the spoiler for Murder on the Orient Express and Behind Her Eyes so please no recs for those, please.
thank you!!
I am really looking for a good smut book. I am an asexual person and reading that makes me cringe. I just can’t. But I want my bff to start to read and we made this deal. PS: She is into hard core stuf not rape but close.
Edit: you guys are the BEST. I didn’t expect any responses and I got TONS. So many new books to try out!! Thank you!!!
I hesitate mentioning the title even, because automated or keyword searches keep just recommending flippant sci fi or military sci fi when these books aren’t really overtly comedic and they’re definitely not military.
What I loved is that these books are about a nonhuman character gradually and cautiously learning to be around humans as other than a tool or weapon. It identifies as “it” and others continue to use that pronoun. It’s not a story like Frankenstein where everything goes horribly wrong. It has violent elements that are well-executed, but they are tools of the story, not the purpose of it. And it’s not like the Asimov robot books where it feels like it’s 90% talking about theory (although I have read all of those and agree that they’re good overall).
So I’d love to find more “nonhuman …
Any recs would be greatly appreciated!
I feel like no matter what my request is, 90% of the recomendations are just for the most popular games in the world. I’m curious what you’d all recommend outside of games that you’d expect to see outside of a top 100 games of all times list.
I know about God of War. I know about all the PS3 and PS4, and PS5 exclusives. I know about all of the Switch exclusives I know about, and I know about all of the Bioware and Bethesda games. I know about all of the big EA, WB, Activision, and Ubisoft games. I know about all of the Square Enix games too.
I also know all of the most popular indie games from the last decade. I know about Ori and Hades, and all of the big devolver digital games. if it’s got 40k reviews on steam, and a 90% positive rating, I probably know about the game.
What can you recommend to someone that’s been gaming for over 30 years, and knows about all of the big big games?
Sorry for the vague title but I am looking for more games where the environment or place the game is set in is “mysterious” or the player doesn’t know everything about the world/setting. Games I have played that fit this are
1. Stanley Parable
2. Portal 1 and 2
3. Superliminal
4. Entropy Centre
If anyone has any suggestions id really appreciate them ! Also please only recommend games available on PC , thanks.
By economies, I mean – I want the quality feeling of really starting a business and dominating a market. Your suggestion can be as abstract as you want it to be.
I know mmos are probably going to be the top suggestion, and that’s perfectly fine – know that I’m just not *really* looking for that. PvP economic stuff is fun, and I appreciate those recommendations – but I mostly want a single player simulated economic experience.
i have no idea whether or not this game exists but, i wanted to see if it exists somewhere.
a game with a completely randomized world with somewhat random scenario’s. a kind of game where the world is still moving and you are just a tiny piece. something different where I’m not really the main character if i don’t have to be, that’s the kind of game I’ve been craving.
originally i had thought something similar to Starbound, but top-down, or maybe a world similar to worldbox, how it’s constantly moving no matter where you are looking. i know worldbox has mods that could make it like that, but i’ve tried those and they just don’t have much playability, i’m not locked to anything and can switch whenever.
PC or PlayStation.
I’ve played the Fallout series, and Skyrim.
Looking for games with a big open-world where what I choose to do is not constantly hijacked by the “main story”, cut scenes, and linear missions.
A truly free open world that I can discover for myself and most importantly, forge my own path.
Pretty much Forspoken, but good. I’d prefer if the game was on console.