I need inspiration for cool (and even useful) things I can do with shortcuts on Mac. Share you ideas I might even build them if your don’t know how to do them. I think it will inspiring for other people as well. SHOOT.
My first useful shortcut I made is very niche, works only for Swedish medical students but I will share the idea just for inspiration:
It is a quick action that looks if the word I have marked is on the Swedish MeSH (medical dictionary) and opens the link to the search results. It will play the MacOS error sound if there are no search results, instead of opening the link.
Also post the bugs you still find with Shortcuts here so that we all can submit feedback.
Here’s a previous post of some fixes found in the 15.1 Beta.
Some fixes found in the official release:
Issues still noticed:
This post (or something like it) has been made before in this sub but not in a long time. Would love to get some recommendations from people with better taste than me so drop your own favs in the comments!
In no particular order my favorites are:
The Jeselnik and Rosenthal Vanity Project - “TV Show Done… Podcast Still Going” Anthony Jeselnik is the greatest standup maybe ever and this episode of him black out drunk is one of the funniest hours you will ever spend.
This Is Actually Happening #148 - “What if you killed someone?” One of the most raw and emotional stories I’ve ever heard someone tell. Such amazing vulnerability and perspective.
Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend - “Marc Maron” Not the best interview either of these two have been a part of but for some reason I keep coming back to this one. So genuine and hilarious at the same time.
Hardcore History #59 - “(Blitz) The Destroyer of Worlds” There is nobody in the world who can make history stick in your brain like Dan Carlin. …
EDIT: I have checked out several of your suggestions so far and can’t thank everyone enough! I’ll be checking some more out tonight after work. Thank you!!!
I listen to about 6-8 hours of podcasts 4-5 days a week for the last few years. I’m getting to the point where I am struggling to find new podcasts. I would love some suggestions. Here is some of what I have listened to.
Comedy
The Hound stall Discussion Series
You made it weird
Dynamic Banter
The Valleycast
How did this get made
The TryPod
Conan O’Brien needs a friend
Films to Be Buried with
Off Menu
Fake Doctors Real Friends
Life is Short with Justin Long
ID10T
I Don’t Know About That
Gus and Eddy Podcast
Working it Out
A Conversation With
Good for You
Guilty Pleasures
SmartLess
Narrative
The Bright Sessions
Limetown
Blackwood
Video Palace
The Last Movie
Rondstat
Aftershock
Blood Ties
See You in Your Nightmares
The Burned Photo
NoSleep
Borrasca
Edge of Sleep
The Left Right Game
Ghost Tapes …
This is likely more a reflection of me and my free time than a judgement of any particular show, but if I see runtimes approaching or passing an hour, I just cannot commit. Half an hour is my sweet spot. I will make exceptions if a show is an instant favourite (No Such Thing as a Fish) or if longer episodes are infrequent (Ear Hustle). I know I’m probably missing out on so much good stuff.
Have been loving this show, really interesting stories, weird little mysteries and investigation, especially since a certain other podcast had an existential crisis and massively declined in quality.
Just looking for that ‘late night DJ’ experience, I guess. Do you know of any podcasts that give anything like that? I’d also be interested in a podcast that was just recordings of old broadcasts, if that type of thing even exists.
Do you patronize any of the podcasts you listen to? If so, how many? Do you rotate between shows each month, or is your support consistent throughout the year?
As a black person, I don’t want to read about the black experience. I turn to books to escape my reality, not relive it. At the same time, I want to support black authors. I get it, “write what you know” but is there a book out there written by a black person where the main part of the story line isn’t centered around race??
Edit: thanks everyone for all your suggestions! I’m gonna read Queenie next and then dive into The Wedding Date series. If you have any recommendations for thriller/suspense (non sci-fi) please comment!
I figured I might as well create a thread dedicated to this topic because as much as I hate to admit it I’m, unfortunately, quite transphobic. More specifically transgender. To the point where I’m suspicious of everyone’s pronouns and have this irrational dread that every person I talk to wants to abandon the sister or brotherhood. But it is something I would like to work through. My biggest hang ups are transwomen but transmen also make me rather sad. So are there any good fiction books that could help? I would prefer books that are “transparent” about the nature of their characters.
Note: I created this thread because I added something about the inclusion of trans characters in a thread dealing with another topic entirely and figured I might as well also create a thread dedicated to trans books.
Hello all. Im looking to read some dystopia with good wroldbuilding, plot and characters. Something more mature than the teen love stories yet still filled with emotion and not-too-old characters. Help me out with some suggestions! Also, any books that you personally love that fall in this category, feel free to suggest them.
I am trying to understand the state of mind before committing suicide. Recently finished “No Longer Human” by Osamu Dasai, who committed suicide not long after writing that book. The book is in a way his suicide letter.
Is there similar other books that depicts the state of mind before suicide? Preferably non-fiction, but if there’s a good fiction please also suggest.
While I play video games, I will say what types of games I like that may help offer a suggestion in a book.
Games that take place in space that have adventure and mystery (No Mans Sky, Subnautica, Outer Wilds)
Red Dead Redemption. I like the time period and storyline that goes with it
Survival games like The Long Dark because it deals with nature and survival (obviously) against nature and all that comes with it.
Maybe this can help somebody guide me to an easy book suggestion! Thank you :)
EDIT: thank you all SO much for these suggestions! Many great suggestions that are enticing and getting me excited to dive into a book for the first time in a long time!
I’ve never played adult games before and I’m interested if there are any good games.
Genre doesn’t matter, better if it runs on low spec systems.
She’s not a big time gamer, but loved BOTW and we enjoy playing games together sometimes. We mostly play on Switch but I have a PS4 too.
She doesn’t like a lot of talking/reading in games, and the lego games we tried haven’t worked out for us. Normally we just play platformers but I’m looking for something with more depth.
Thanks
Games like paint the town red and postal: brain damaged but with less resistance against my killing spree, for some ungodly reason murdering people in videogames calms me down alot and helps me manage my anger issues.
I don’t want to bore you telling my whole videogame history, so I’ll try to be brief.
Basically, it has been a few years since I could find a game that I enjoy playing for more than a week or two. The fact that I started working might be one of the issues, but now I really want to find a game that I can focus on for a year or two, like WoW in the old days.
I need to find something that has the content, the playerbase and a decent life span ahead to immerse myself in. I guess it is a “mindset” problem, but I would enjoy myself more in a game that is going to be there for the foreseeable future.
With that said, I’m more than open for suggestions, the only real criteria I have is that the game must have some kind of “open world continuum”. I dislike all of those games where you start a match, it develops and it ends there, because I feel like there is no sense of long term progression at all.
I would ideally like something like Destiny 2 or …