Introducing Node v2

Heads up: this is the second time posting this shortcut, in the original post I shared the wrong shortcut. Please do not use that one.

I made a shortcut that uses Mistral AI API and JSON to control what items to add to your iPhone. These include events, notes, and reminders. It can also provide normal responses and has the feature to ask follow-up questions.

This is an improved version of one of my other shortcuts, AssistantGPT.

The Mistral API has multiple advantages:

- It’s free, unlike ChatGPT

- Faster than using AI apps

- I noticed it sometimes understands prompts better

I will be regularly posting updates and newer versions of the shortcut, and I hope to make it as useful as possible, so please give feedback.

Download the shortcut:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fd6fa698679d4e8388a24c968151a7d3

Activate Mistral:

https://mistral.ai/

Hey there! 👋

I haven’t been active much in the Shortcuts community lately, but I had an idea for a web app the other day to help build VCARD menus. I hope it will help novices and advanced users alike.

It’s not quite ready to release yet but I plan to make it live tomorrow or the next day. Along with helping create the VCARD menus I’m going to write a tutorial and include different methods for how it’s done.

That and there will be links to a few starter Shortcuts to get up and running quickly.

I’m building it with Astro and Tailwind, and for now I’m just using Tailwind’s base colors to get it up and running. In the future, I may try and add some more dynamic features if I can and there is interest.

It will be completely open source and I’ll be slowly refactoring the code as I get time and learn more and more about Astro and JavaScript.

Let me know what you guys think and be on the lookout soon for the release!

Many shortcuts do this using a convoluted process with notes/files/values. This is a simpler way, and as far as I know (and as long as you use Face ID) doesn’t have any drawbacks.

Simply lock the phone, wait a second, and see if it’s still locked.

If you’re looking at your phone (as you normally would be if you’re turning on airplane mode), it’ll unlock straight away when it recognises your face, and airplane mode will stay on as normal (just swipe up to go back to what you were doing).

If Face ID doesn’t unlock your phone straight away, it’ll turn off airplane mode, and do various things to make your phone more findable.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5509ab351d0e4d2e8fe1fef6c6e60cb9

This shortcut provides a step-by-step tutorial for sideloading apps with zero revokes, offering multiple different alternatives for downloading ESign and certificates with minimal redirections. It includes a repository adder and a guide to setting up your own AntiRevoke DNS using NextDNS.

Features include:

• Simple, sideloading process.

• Download ESign and certificates directly within the shortcut.

• Repo adder for easy repository management.

• Detailed guide on setting up your own AntiRevoke DNS with NextDNS.

• Upcoming features: IPA browser integration and a video guide.

Download the shortcut

I’m constantly working to improve this shortcut, and I’d love feedback on what features you’d like to see added. Let me know your thoughts!

Hi everyone! I am the developer of Enclave an app that was shared here some time ago. Given the very warm feedback I got from this community I decided to spend some time making Enclave shortcuts more useful. I was thinking how can I give you the most flexibility and power and decided it would be best to just expose a way to use ANY language model be it local or cloud.

When using the shortcut you will have access to state of the art local models like Gemma, QWEN, Llama, SmolLM to name a few. You will also have access to most of the cloud models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deepseek etc.

Local models are available on both iOS and MacOS and cloud models are currently only available on iOS. If you have any workflow that needs to understand or generate text this is the easiest way to integrate it. I use it to generate Tweet ideas, respond to messages in a pirate voice, draft emails etc.

A quick intro on the parameters you can pass to the shortcut:

• System instruction - …

Function

The shortcut creates a gauge style widget in WidgetPack using data from GoodLinks. Both apps are required for the shortcut to work.

The resulting widget displays the number of unread links in GoodLinks, surrounded by a dynamic gauge. The gauge level is determined by your read to unread link ratio.

Tapping the widget uses GoodLinks’s URL scheme to automatically open the unread links list in the app without passing through shortcuts.

Get the shortcut via RoutineHub.

Automation Recommendations

This shortcut is designed to run entirely in the background. To keep the widget up-to-date, I recommend some combination of the following:

• *Run when [app] is closed” with GoodLinks selected, along with any other apps you often save links from. (Apple News, Safari, RSS apps, etc) Additionally, because tapping the widget opens GoodLinks, this means tapping the widget should trigger a refresh.

• ”Run when GoodLinks is opened”: if you save a links from a lot of different places, or don’t …

Hi all! For whatever reason, I’m super in the mood for a podcast that just grabs you and won’t let go. Like just locked in. I prefer happier leaning stuff so no crime dramas or podcasts taking down pedo rings or anything like that please! I just want to listen to something that rocks me! I don’t care what the genre or style or length or topic is.

Thank you all!

Edit: Wow. I wasn’t ready for this amount of responses lol! I will work through all these and report back as I finish them. Thank you all!!

Edit 2: You guys are crazy! Loving all this passion and getting to see the diverse pods that changed people’s lives. I will tackle as many of these as I can but when I said the first edit there were only like 15 responses lol, so be patient with me!

I’d really love to know what one episode kicks around in your brain from that podcast you love so much.

I enjoy ever8from true crime to UFOs and cryptids.

I love a good mystery, whether it be scientific, historical, paranormal etc. I like to hear the host talk about the mystery, list out everything and try to solve it.

One good example is TheWhyFiles. It’s nicely paced, funny but not too funny, and lists out everything from all angles. I am looking for something similar to it.

Another is PBS eons. They are a science-focused channel but episodes like “Why wasn’t there a second age of reptiles” are good mysteries as well.

I just want it to not be true crime. I would mostly be listening to it while doing mundane work or going to sleep.

Hey there,

I’m looking for new or old podcasts to binge. Here are a few examples of ones I liked and got really taken by:

• Darknet Diaries
• Reply All and Search Engine (and Hyperfixed)
• Breaking Down Collapse
• If Books Could Kill

I also listen on regular updates to podcasts like Hard Fork, Ezra Klein, Embedded, Decoder Ring, Uncharted…

Some of the podcasts I thought I’d like but haven’t managed to get caught by: 99% Invisible, You’re Wrong About, The Moth

Looking for something that you can listen to all day long without getting tired of, deep dives into specific subjects or thrilling matters, societal subjects or laid back conversation with a genuine intent to help…

Any suggestion welcome, thanks so much for your help !!

In the wake of the Adolescence series on Netflix, I’m wondering if there has been any investigative journalism on this topic.

Genuinely interested in learning more about this growing phenomenon in our society. Would be great if Rabbit Hole came back and covered this.

It can be an episode or a full series.

Also, name the books if you can, ones with 5 stars or close to 5 stars (if you rarely gave one).

Any genre, fiction or nonfiction.

Book in the same series counts, if an author has like 20+ books in a series, and at least 3 of them get 5 stars then it counts

edit: thanks all for flooding up my TBR with new authors

I’ve done this before and at the end, there were some people with unanswered posts. If you would like to answer some of those, you can visit my profile and look for the newer comments on the post.

This is quite simple and actually kind of fun:

Name three books you’ve really liked and other users will comment on your post with recommendations they also think you might enjoy.

Mine:

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (I have read other books by him)

EDIT: I wish I could highlight the ones that haven’t been answered yet. If you see that someone hasn’t received any recommendations and think you know what they might like next, please comment on theirs. I’m sure they will appreciate it!

Which books made you realize a lot of things? A book that changed how you perceive the things around you or the way you see the world. A book that inspired you to change your ways and become better.

Some groundrules:

1. The book must be over 650 pages.
2. It can’t be Lonesome Dove, Count of Monte Cristo, any King, any Sanderson, Shogun, because I ’ve read them all and they are amazing. I know that, you know that, we all know that.
3. Focus mainly on the book being easy to read despite its size, not on its overall quality (i.e difficult book, slow pace but amazing).
4. Bonus points if someone has an opinion along those lines about Musashi. I know it’s a good book but I haven’t figured out if its fun or it will take some serious effort to get through it.

Update: Thank you all so much for your amazing suggestions!!! I will read each comment! A lot of great, long books to go through!

Say your favorite song and I’ll recommend you a book I read last year (i have lots of comments to answer, maybe, MAYBE I’ll answer, I’m getting a little overwhelmed by it.)

I’m tired of seeing the same book recommendations everywhere, and I feel like I haven’t read a GOOD book in forever. Give me your recommendations please!

It can be in any way really. You could have finished the game and thought it was the best experience ever, or maybe it was so bad you were moved in some strange way. I’d love to know what game/why it moved you.

I know many others feel similar to my answer, but finishing Red Dead Redemption 2 hit me right in the gut.

Like in early The Boys and Invincible. You play as a normal human but the target or enemies are superpowered. Would be cooler if there’s an organization like SHIELD taking down rogue superheroes, instead of individual people or a group.

Closest I could think of are Resident Evil games, but they’re BOWs.

I’m aware of all the diablo-likes floating around, or most of them… but I wanted to know what other games outside the style have a similar loot system.

Meaning:

• Random loot can drop from anything
• The loot itself can roll with different powers / affixes, suffixes, etc.
• Grinding is assumed to be part of the gameplay loop

To get started, an example would be something like Nioh 1 and 2. They are souls-likes but have a more diablo-centric loot system, with random stats, upgrade / crafting paths, etc.

EDIT: I probably should have mentioned I’ve played most looter-shooters like Borderlands, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, The Division, etc. Oopsies!

I love the absolute brutality of games like dying light, rdr2, cyberpunk, etc. and I would like some recommendations for games with the best gore/dismemberment mechanics. I just love hacking and slashing enemies and seeing the results.

I mean like FPS games where you’re playing as the evil forces?

when I first saw gameplay of Skyrim over 10 years ago, I thought it was really cool how you could put pots on people’s heads, carry the pots around, use shouts to fling items all over the place, rob people, etc. but I finally played it recently and it either doesn’t have the 100s of small things like I imagined, or maybe waiting too long to play so I wasn’t as interested in carrying pots around