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Re:Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap" by superb_dev on Monday May 05, 2025 @07:29PM (#43900392)
I’ve built a lot of small little things with shortcuts, but the only thing I still use is one I made to change my background/lock screen to a random photo from an album. I set it to run every morning so I wake up to a new photo. I shared the album with my partner too so they can add photos to the rotation. It’s small but I love it!

I also made a shortcut that lives on my home screen to open a notes page for today, creating a new one if it doesn’t exist already. That one would be more used if I could ever get a journaling habit to stick.

It’s certainly very limited and suffers a lot from a poor interface, but I don’t think people give it enough credit.

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