Now that there are a lot of online events bubbling up, I decided to make a shortcut to quickly add them to my phone's calendar. Just run this shortcut out of the "Share" menu when you see an event you'd like to attend and the shortcut will do the rest.
Continue reading →You can schedule shortcuts to run automatically whenever your phone detects certain things. These are some shortcuts that I set up to run whenever my wakeup alarm goes off in the morning.
Continue reading →I always forget to add things to my phone's calendar. This shortcut is designed to make it a quick and easy process by eliminating some of the pointless steps and smoothing out the tedious steps.
Continue reading →How to be at a certain place at a certain time: 1. Remember what date, time, and location the place is, and continue remembering for days. 2. On that day, get the address, plug it into Google Maps and find out how long it will take to get there. Subtract the ETA from the time you want to be there. 3. Decide that you want to leave about 20 minutes early to make a stop along the way. Subtract 20 minutes from the time you want to be there subtracted from the ETA. 4. You will need to remember to warn yourself to start getting ready beforehand, so subtract another 10 minutes. Keep all 4 of these numbers in your head at the same time. OR download this shortcut and let your phone do all of this for you.
Continue reading →On a day when you're heading to the airport, in order to get yourself to the place where they let you on the plane at the right time, you need to remember & find out several different numbers and plug them into several formulas. This shortcut teaches Siri how to do all the math, create alarms for the right times on your phone, and email your schedule to yourself so you can reference it later. I made this shortcut to save myself from doing all of this math and it works great!
Continue reading →These are shortcuts for setting different types of alarms. I'm not that good with doing math in my head, so I made these to let me skip having to do math when setting alarms. One is for setting multiple alarms with the same interval apart, and the other one is for setting an alarm for a certain interval of time from now.
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