I use my transit shortcut daily which tells me in how many minutes the next bart is going to come. Makes my life so much easier in the morning. Other shortcut that I find extremely useful is logging water(I try to hit 125oz milestone everyday) And many bizarre automations like Siri speaking out when the battery hits 80. Can you suggest some interesting and productive shortcuts?
Simple shortcut but extremely useful.
Just create a “When I tap any payment card” automation and add the script shown in the screenshot
You can access your spreadsheet any time within the Numbers app. It’s located to the following path: iCloud/wallet transactions
Wallet Transactions Spreadsheet Shortcut.
Update: A title is added to each column
With iOS 17, Apple introduced a new (hidden) feature called Transaction Triggers in the Shortcuts app. This feature allows you to automatically execute any shortcut after making a purchase using Apple Pay. While this feature may not be immediately obvious, it can be incredibly useful, especially for those who track their spending using third-party apps. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the process of automatically adding Apple Pay transactions to third-party apps using this new shortcut.
Configuring this feature involves a few steps, but it’s relatively straightforward. I’ll illustrate this process using my own app, Budget Flow, but it should work with any expense tracking app that offers shortcut integration.
Here’s how to set it up:
last image is a complementary automation to reset the counter in notes
I got the new iPhone 15 pro max and I want to set up a short cut so every time I hit the action button a bacon egg and cheese gets delivered to my house.
Is that possible?
I’ve spent the last couple of years listening to podcasts with really dark subject matter, true crime or adjacent. But lately I found myself exhausted with that so I took to listening to lighter ones (just started who shat on the floor at my wedding for example, Solve This Murder or History’s greatest idiots are some I also like). Do you have any recs for podcasts that are easy to listen to and won’t ruin my day? Any subject matter is fine except for maybe sports.
I’m looking for some absolutely mind-blowing podcasts. One’s that were just unbelievable, made your jaw drop, had twists and turns, ones that have really stuck with you. Some examples of podcasts that have blew my mind were Root of Evil, Hoaxed, and Sweet Bobby.
What’s the podcast(s) you can listen to again and again, always brings you comfort and makes you feel better, or helps you get to sleep?
Here are some of mine:
My Dad Wrote A Porno
Answer Me This!
The Allusionist
Three Bean Salad
My Brother, My Brother and Me
Witch Please/Material Girls (definitely doesn’t help me to sleep but I love it and can listen to episodes over and over again)
While it isn’t uncommon for hosts and co-hosts to eventually leave a long-running podcast, every now and then, a departure will seem to come out of nowhere.
I am currently going through this now with Voice Actress, Christian Taylor’s, departure from The Holy Post Podcast (Formerly The Phil Vischer Podcast). She was one of the original co-hosts for approx. 11 years and has been a balancing voice for the other two hosts. Her leaving seemed to be through firing from her two other hosts, which came as a shock to me because it came out of nowhere and it doesn’t really make sense.
What departure shocked you?
I will hear hosts say that they have 10,000 listeners, but yet they only have 120 reviews on Apple Podcasts. Almost every single show asks their audience for reviews or feedback of some sort.
While I don’t join discords or patreons, I can say that I’ve left a written review for every single podcast I am subscribed to. Most of them are simply thanking the hosts. But I do express my opinion from time to time if I feel a show has changed for the worse, but tend to avoid 1 stars if I can. I’d like to think they appreciate the fact that they know people are listening and it gives them validation to continue.
How about you, do you review all of your shows? Do you leave negative reviews? Do you join pages or dm with hosts? How do you or don’t you support creators?
Edit: thanks everyone! A psychology professor would get lost in the replies if they were to use this as a study on individual decision making, you all rock!
After finding joy & an escape from B.S. in life through podcasts, I’ve joined many of my favorite ones FB groups. Now even after distancing from the groups, I find myself often feeling the groups making negative impact on the pods eps. Even if they aren’t directly addressing something controversial going on in the group. Is it just me… is it the parasocial relationships negatively affecting how I feel when listening to their pods? Will it get better if I leave all groups & interacting w other listeners? Is it just in my head..?
I’m looking for books that people hate. I’m not talking about objectively BAD books; they can have good writing, decent storytelling, and everything should be normal on a surface level, but there’s just something about the plot or the characters that YOU just have a personal vendetta against.
As far as I can remember, most of books, movie and TV shows depict aliens as bipedal humanoids which is a bit boring. I want to see or read about intelligent lifeforms which are very different from humans.
I’m looking for non-fiction book suggestions only please.
Just the title
That you’ve read in 2023, not necessarily released in 2023
Because of the Rachel Hollis-types, I’m a little wary of the self-help genre in general. I’m interested to see which books people might suggest reading though! Are there any that you think are worth the hype?
Where you realise you’re the bad guy or working for the bad guys. Like the campaign/story is a whole facade and then at the end you realise after/before (preferably after) it’s too late.
Limited to PS5 but if it’s old I may be able to run it on my laptop.
Looking for games that deliberately throw you in blind and force you to discover mechanics and your place in the world as you go. Sandbox or open world would be perfect, but I’m up for trying pretty much anything. Trying to avoid long cutscenes and tutorialisation. I love the trope of waking up in the middle of nowhere and intuitively learning mechanics via environmental interactions, or fumbling around until the gameplay clicks without excessive hand-holding, especially if there’s interesting lore or story to discover.
Hi, I am a 26 year old guy who is dealing with life problems that I cannot force to be solved right away and just need some time off. Man, I do think a lot. Like a lot and it is eating me and making me sad.
Before I went to this phase of my life, I was busy and happy and not that updated into video games anymore.
Now, there’s a lot of games that’s been out there and I just want to keep my mind at peace and forgot about my problems even just for awhile. Can you suggest some? This would mean a lot to me. I just need some break and distraction. I want to have fun even just for awhile. I already have played (Red Dead Redemption and Ghost of Tsushima, if you are planning to suggest that and keep in mind that I play mainly on Steam and PS4 since I don’t own a PS5). Thanks a lot.
It’s just too much for me to bare while not doing anything. I want to be distracted. I hope this won’t get deleted.
Edited: I am reading all your suggestions and comments for this …
Lately I’ve been worrying about stuff, I feel uneasy all the time, and when I’m like this I can’t play games that requires much attention, AAA titles, story driven games because I can’t focus on it and I don’t even care
I do YouTube videos and I’m always interested in games that didn’t sell well/DOA or had a awful launch but then got better, would appreciate any games that you could suggest!
Would appreciate if they’re multiplayer also!
Any frequency of rat, in any amount. It can be a single character, the main character, a single boss, a whole enemy type, the entire theme of the game, a fevered dream of endless waves of rat, it does not matter.
So far I have:
The Dishonored Series
Ratatouille
Vermintide 2
-– Thank you for your time.
edit: y’all came through and then some. Thanks so much, folks.