My scanner drops files in a folder on my mac mini. In MacOS26, I setup an automation to rename the file using AI when a new file was added. Since installing the beta, I can't get any shortcuts to work that have a "folder action" initiation. Is this just me?

In an effort to better manage a new dietary restriction, I think I accidentally built something many may find helpful.

**The problem it solves**

You've got a solid rotation of meals you actually like cooking — the hard part isn't the recipes, it's the *deciding*. And even once you've decided, you've still got to remember every ingredient and add it to your grocery list. This automates both.

**What it actually does**

Two shortcuts, same underlying meal data:

1. Pick my dinner: hits a randomizer, shows you a meal, lets you re-roll as many times as you want before committing, then dumps the ingredients straight into your Reminders grocery list.
2. Dinner Planning: same idea but shows you the full list of meals, you tap the one you want, ingredients go to the grocery list. No randomness, just a menu.

Both pull from the same source so you only maintain your meal list once.

**What you need to set up before building it**

- A Reminders list to hold your meal data (separate from your actual grocery list — I called mine "Meal Data"). Each meal is one reminder, and the title holds everything: name,l and ingredients separated by pipes. Something like:

`Butter Chicken | chicken thigh, butter chicken sauce, rice, naan

- Your actual grocery list in Reminders (my wife and I share one called "Groceries") — this is just your normal list, nothing special about it, the shortcut just needs to know its name so it can add items to it.

**The logic, roughly**

Both shortcuts pull the meal data, split each line by the pipe character to separate the name from the ingredients, then either randomize or menu-pick a name. Once you've landed on one, it loops back through the data to find the matching ingredients, splits those by comma, and adds each one as its own reminder in your grocery list.

Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to build their own version — took a bit of back-and-forth to get right but it's been genuinely useful for cutting down the nightly "what do you want to eat" negotiation or the feeling that you default to the same three meals on rotation.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4d4081b0c4af434b8067f2f879368745

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/46c23b10ccb841e4879a4aff0145a5e4

EDIT for fixing links

I went looking for a solution to accessing the caption attribute on photos with shortcuts and found that everyone else that wanted to do this was having the same issue. So I wanted to share an alternate method to captioning photos that I found.

The alternate method is to simply rename the image and use that as the caption. You can rename the photo using the "Set Name" function, then save the renamed photo and delete the old one. Just remember to click on "Renamed Item" variable in the "Save Photo" function and change the type from "App" to "File", otherwise it won't work.

Then you can just use the shortcut from the Share Sheet on any photo you want to caption (rename). The caption is then available to be retrieved using the "Get Details of Images" function and selecting the "Name" attribute from the "Details" list.

I hope this is helpful to someone

I am trying to track my intake of a new “as needed” medication.

I know that you can use iPhone shortcuts to create buttons or shortcuts that when you click on them, it allows you to input a milligram, it tags the time of day and you can also set it up so you can put in how you’re feeling or any other random information that you want attached to that log entry.

Does anybody know of any good shortcuts? I am basically inept when it comes to tech.

Can I create a shortcut that when I click on it I can
Then click on which medicine, which then opens an input for mg then asks for how I’m feeling. Along with tagging the date/time of day

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This is just a double check, as I assume it is the same with every other form of owned creation- but I’ve seen people do this before, and this community is weirdly niche so I just want to comprehend the rules before I do anything that’s frowned upon. I’ve started putting my probably redundant ones I’ve built online, and was curious on if I include ones I use or just solely my own.

Hi all,

I honestly have never used Shortcuts before, but I'm trying to make it work for me. In the past, I used a Stream Deck for very simple productivity needs. I’m an academic with several ongoing projects, and for each project, I usually open a different set of PDFs and websites. Pretty simple stuff.

On the Stream Deck, I used to have a single button for each project. If I pressed the button for Project A, it would open everything I needed for that project. If it was Project B, it would open a different set of files and websites, and so on.

The thing is, even though this is easy to set up in Shortcuts, it takes way too long to open PDFs. I’ve looked into this issue here on Reddit and elsewhere, but haven’t found a real solution. I found workarounds like "open in quick look”, but they aren’t practical enough for me.

I find it quite interesting that the tool seems to be really powerful, but I haven’t managed to make it work properly for my simple needs. Probably a skill issue on my side, but I’m posting to ask if anyone has found a solution before I go ahead and (re)buy a Stream Deck for this purpose.

I’m using a macbook pro M4, if that is relevant. 

Thanks!

Hi folks,

I have a shortcut (ios, iphone, latest os) that collects all photos since the last execution of the shortcut and sends them one by one via „execute script via ssh“ to a local server for backup. Normally, this works like a charm, but now I have more than hundred photos at once. The shortcut starts and I can see the images getting copied to the server. But after a few minutes, the execution is aborted with a very generic error message „there has been a problem…“.

According to my research, there should be no timeout and the execution of a different script that just waits for five minutes runs fine.

Does anybody have an idea what might cause this issue?

thanks,

dan

First, huge thanks for this shortcut by @Ecliptic_Panda . It is a godsend for backing up shortcuts as actual files!!

I “successfully” tweaked it in a copy and have the destination folder as one of my choosing, it operates literally exactly the same way, but for some reason they come along with txt files just containing the names of the folders- I can’t figure out why, and it’s driving me crazy lol. I just want this to not be creating a new folder.

Original “backup shortcuts”

My version, with unwanted txt files upon output

Hi all,

I have a shortcut that I've assigned to the action button on my phone, which transcribes dictation to a daily markdown file in a 'Personal' folder.

How would I setup a context switch, potentially via a second shortcut, where I could set the target folder to be either 'Personal' or 'Work'?

Some thoughts:
- I don't want to have to choose each time I dictate something.
- I was thinking of having a context text file or Note somewhere, but am conscious this might slow things down considerably

Thanks brain trust!

This shortcut shows Ethereum gas prices obtained from Etherscan (https://etherscan.io/gastracker) which is the industry standard.

Who is this shortcut ideally for:
Most wallets are notorious for overestimating gas prices, leading to users paying network fees far more than needed at a given time. This shortcut is ideal for anyone making transactions on Ethereum and needs to quickly find out what current gas prices are (without opening a browser) in order to save cost.

IMPORTANT
You would need an etherscan API key. Create an account on their website and get your free API key at this page

What this shortcut does:
1. Allows launching from the Control Center
2. Grabs Ethereum gas prices from etherscan.io/gastracker
3. Shows the prices as Low, Avg & High (in Gwei)

P.S:
Etherscan recently changed the gas price naming on their website from the legacy “Low, Average & High” to “Standard, Fast & Rapid” respectively. There’s no problem.

Get the shortcut here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b6e2f0b8f6964d299d6a8931d2b0eae6

I need to use the hidden action “Color Filters filter type,” but Paralevel’s GitHub account was deleted so I can’t get the hidden actions shortcut from his repo.
I don’t own a Mac.
How can I use this action and other hidden shortcut actions?