It’s still early days, but the progress so far has been impressive. (Yes, there’s also a LaunchBar Action by Christian Bender that will automatically add a Run Shortcut action to LaunchBar-and it automatically indexes your list of shortcuts, so every single one is available without needing to add it to the Dock.)īit by bit, it’s exciting to see ways that Shortcuts is starting to reach out into how I use my Mac. John’s example uses Alfred, but I was able to add that path to LaunchBar, and it worked too. (Unlike AppleScript scripts or Automator actions, the actual code of shortcuts doesn’t reside in the file-it’s safe in your Mac’s Shortcuts database.) If you use any app launcher that is capable of indexing ~/Applications, you can save shortcuts there and they’ll be available for quick launching.
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While there’s also an Applications folder inside your user folder-and in the early days of Mac OS X there was a real debate about where best to install software on a Mac-it’s largely unused.īut that’s where Shortcuts saves a link to your shortcut. Now, what most Mac users think of as the Applications folder lives at the top level of your Mac’s boot drive. At that point, not only will the shortcut appear in your Dock, but it will also be saved to ~/Applications. It’s a bit hidden-you need to select or open a shortcut and then choose Add to Dock from the File menu. Strangely, while on iOS you can save a shortcut as a home-screen icon, there’s no option on the Mac to save a shortcut into the file system… or is there?Īs John wrote (and then expanded on in the latest MacStories Weekly), Shortcuts on Mac also lets you add any shortcut to the Dock.
Shortcuts show up in a few places in macOS Monterey: in the menu bar, in the Services menu, and in Finder Quick Actions. This week, thanks to an article by John Voorhees at MacStories about integrating Shortcuts with the Elgato Stream Deck, I discovered an incredibly useful tip about Shortcuts integration on the Mac. Tip: Make Shortcuts into Mac Apps (sort of)
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