{"id":36802,"date":"2022-08-18T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36802"},"modified":"2022-08-18T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:30:29","slug":"suggested-shortcuts-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/18\/suggested-shortcuts-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggested Shortcuts Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcassinelli.com\/apple-adds-shortcuts-for-mac-support-to-pages-numbers-keynote\/\">Matthew Cassinelli<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcassinelli.com\/apple-adds-shortcuts-for-mac-support-to-pages-numbers-keynote\/\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/04\/07\/iwork-app-update-version-12\/\">Today<\/a>, Apple released updates to their iWork suite of apps that adds actions in Shortcuts for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on macOS, bringing powerful first-party actions that Mac users can take advantage to automate their work[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One oddity worth mentioning is that the &ldquo;Add Row&rdquo; action requires Numbers to physically open the spreadsheet and insert the data, just like it does on iOS &#x2013; Apple should make this action work in the background <em>without<\/em> opening the app, otherwise it creates an inconsistent experience with every other action in Shortcuts that doesn&rsquo;t require opening the app to insert data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imore.com\/apps\/apple-isnt-doing-enough-for-new-shortcuts-users-heres-how-they-can-fix-it\">Matthew Cassinelli<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.imore.com\/apps\/apple-isnt-doing-enough-for-new-shortcuts-users-heres-how-they-can-fix-it\">\n<p>One piece of low-hanging fruit that Apple could grab onto to improve the onboarding experience is to do an overhaul of the quality of action descriptions in the app.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the flow of information throughout the Shortcuts app is still very confusing and not immediately obvious for new or even intermediate users. [&#8230;] Apple should implement a step-through mode like the one implemented in their Swift Playgrounds app, which allows users who are learning coding basics to see what&rsquo;s happening in between each step.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Many of the categories in the Shortcuts gallery haven&rsquo;t been curated recently &mdash; I literally programmed them myself when I worked at Workflow &mdash; and there are many more examples including third-party apps from the App Store that could show people the power of Shortcuts beyond simple use cases.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/21\/mail-merge-returns-to-pages\/\">Mail Merge Returns to Pages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/09\/app-shortcuts\/\">App Shortcuts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Cassinelli: Today, Apple released updates to their iWork suite of apps that adds actions in Shortcuts for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on macOS, bringing powerful first-party actions that Mac users can take advantage to automate their work[&#8230;] [&#8230;] One oddity worth mentioning is that the &ldquo;Add Row&rdquo; action requires Numbers to physically open the [&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":"2022-08-18T13:30:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"f2787d77-c2d8-4252-9aa2-ca7f9a49dd8a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-08-18T13:30:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8nh9d8LYQlKaosp_mkndig","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":[471,473,30,2077,241,472,1686],"class_list":["post-36802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-iwork","tag-keynote","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-numbers","tag-pages","tag-shortcuts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802","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=36802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36803,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36802\/revisions\/36803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}