{"id":27603,"date":"2019-12-17T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27603"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:06:22","slug":"toolbox-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/17\/toolbox-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Toolbox Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/toolbox-pro-review-a-must-have-companion-utility-for-shortcuts-power-users\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/toolbox-pro-review-a-must-have-companion-utility-for-shortcuts-power-users\/\"><p>When I covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/ios-and-ipados-13-the-macstories-review\/13\/#shortcuts\">updated Shortcuts app<\/a> in my iOS and iPadOS 13 review earlier this year, I argued how, thanks to parameters, Shortcuts actions provided by third-party apps could become native features of the Shortcuts app.<\/p><p>With his debut app <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/toolbox-pro-for-shortcuts\/id1476205977\">Toolbox Pro<\/a>, released today on the App Store, developer Alex Hay has taken this idea to its logical conclusion: Toolbox Pro is a new kind of &ldquo;headless&rdquo; app &#x2013; a utility whose sole purpose is to complement and extend Apple&rsquo;s Shortcuts app with over 50 new actions, providing a native implementation of functionalities that Apple hasn&rsquo;t brought to Shortcuts yet. After having used Toolbox Pro for the past couple of months, not only is the app a clever idea well suited for Shortcuts&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/videos\/play\/wwdc2019\/213\/\">parameter framework<\/a>, but it&rsquo;s also a must-have for anyone who relies on Shortcuts on a daily basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like the equivalent of AppleScript&rsquo;s Standard Additions.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/ios\/introducing-musicbot-the-all-in-one-apple-music-assistant-powered-by-shortcuts\/\">MusicBot<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci: When I covered the updated Shortcuts app in my iOS and iPadOS 13 review earlier this year, I argued how, thanks to parameters, Shortcuts actions provided by third-party apps could become native features of the Shortcuts app.With his debut app Toolbox Pro, released today on the App Store, developer Alex Hay has taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-17T22:06:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"be3e1be2-c496-4ad4-992e-6188e7f56a33","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-17T22:06:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Avj4b4sSWStSZLmGI5_VqMw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1667,1686,1900],"class_list":["post-27603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-shortcuts","tag-toolbox-pro"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27604,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27603\/revisions\/27604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}