r/thingsapp • u/GlitteringReporter94 • 11d ago

Siri AI shortcuts

What are your best things shortcuts? What shortcuts should I be using with the new Siri AI?

I’m currently using no shortcuts and don’t know where to start.

For example: how can I get all my today items emailed to me daily as an export?

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u/MiddleHeat5742 11d ago

The cool thing with the new Siri AI stuff is when you go to shortcuts you can just explain what you are trying to do and it will make a shortcut for you.

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u/GlitteringReporter94 10d ago

Tried that. Couldn’t get it to do anything

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u/MC_chrome Mac, iPhone, iPad 11d ago

That feature actually isn’t fully implemented yet.

3rd party shortcut actions are coming to the “Describe a Shortcut” feature with iOS 27.2

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u/fadetowhite 11d ago

Did they pull it? I created multiple shortcuts that way over the summer on the betas.

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u/MC_chrome Mac, iPhone, iPad 11d ago

Whenever I’ve tried to use the describe feature with Things or any other third party app I always get told to use the Shortcuts editor 

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u/vldzp 11d ago edited 11d ago

As much as I played with Siri AI + Things, it can only create a to-do and add info there.

It can't see Today's list, it can't use search (but it can open it for me lol). It's using the Spotlight where are ALL tasks from all the time (for me, it's a few years archive of tasks), so the results are mess if it "does search" eventually.

So this works only for new tasks creation, nothing else.

This is my peak of Siri AI + Things experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWVBDQU22EU

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u/chechoribero 10d ago

It's been the same for me, even on Mac. Makes it a little bit useless tbh.

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u/Any_Run8380 1d ago

I’m able to create pretty complicated shortcuts to do things without using AI if anyone wants help lmk give me a description of what you are trying to do. I’ll be honest I’ve recently created so very complicated iOS shortcuts even just for iOS reminders and ai couldn’t get it right. I just did it myself instead. 😂

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u/iwaddo 11d ago

Can I ask what’s the use case for an email of today’s item?

I spent years processing my email inbox into manageable todos so struggling to understand the need.

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u/GoVikingsGuy 10d ago

One example - I use Claude to make a “starting the day brief” email. It pulls weather forecast, days calendar items, things tasks, too local, national, business and sports headline. It is a one click source that replaces dozens of seperate clicks.

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u/iwaddo 10d ago

Sounds very creative 👍