{"id":27816,"date":"2020-01-08T17:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27816"},"modified":"2020-01-08T17:01:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:01:45","slug":"launchcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/08\/launchcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"LaunchCuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/launchcuts-review-a-better-way-to-organize-your-shortcuts-with-folders-advanced-search-and-custom-views\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/launchcuts-review-a-better-way-to-organize-your-shortcuts-with-folders-advanced-search-and-custom-views\/\"><p>Like the aforementioned Shortcuts utilities, LaunchCuts was born of its <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atow\">developer&rsquo;s<\/a> frustration with the lack of folders in Shortcuts &#x2013; a basic feature that is still bafflingly absent from the app in 2020.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>LaunchCuts can only read data from your local Shortcuts library by <strong>running an additional helper shortcut<\/strong> inside the Shortcuts app. This shortcut is based on an advanced technique that uses the native, Apple-developed &lsquo;Get My Shortcuts&rsquo; action to generate a list of all your installed shortcuts and extract metadata from each. I&rsquo;m oversimplifying what the LaunchCuts Helper does, but, essentially, the shortcut <strong>scans the entire contents of the Shortcuts app<\/strong> and parses details such as the names of your shortcuts, their colors and glyphs, whether you&rsquo;re using them as widgets or action extensions in the share sheet, and even the contents of certain actions contained inside them (more on this later).<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>There are caveats to this approach. In addition to being dependent on a technique that Apple may easily close off in the future (see footnote above), it means you&rsquo;ll need to run the LaunchCuts Helper shortcut manually and periodically to give the LaunchCuts app a fresh database with your latest shortcuts and modifications to existing ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci: Like the aforementioned Shortcuts utilities, LaunchCuts was born of its developer&rsquo;s frustration with the lack of folders in Shortcuts &#x2013; a basic feature that is still bafflingly absent from the app in 2020.[&#8230;]LaunchCuts can only read data from your local Shortcuts library by running an additional helper shortcut inside the Shortcuts app. This [&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":"2020-01-08T22:01:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"304315f9-9867-4289-ac92-df427ea109a0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-01-08T22:01:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMEMV-ZhnQomskt9CfqEJoA","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":[31,1667,26,1915,1686],"class_list":["post-27816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-iosapp","tag-launchcuts","tag-shortcuts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816","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=27816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27817,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816\/revisions\/27817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}