178: Siri Shortcuts: From the Experts!

Shortcuts is the most important addition to iOS since Extensibility in 8. With it, you can not only set up convenient voice commands to perform any action, you can create actions that are combined into powerful workflows without sacrificing any of that convenience.

Thanks to a bunch of product launches — and some controversies — I haven't had as much time to deep dive into Shortcuts as I'd like so, for this video, I asked some friends to help me out!

• Chris Connelly, who you should subscribe to right now at https://www.youtube.com/dailytekk

• Christina Warren, follow her at https://twitter.com/film-girl

• Mikah Sargent, who you read and listen to via all the links at https://chihuahua.coffee

• Matthew Cassinelli, forming Workflow team member who just started a new, automation focused channel you should check out at https://www.youtube.com/user/MatthewJCassinelli

• And Federico Viticci, famously of https://www.macstories.net

They have some great tips on how we can get started with Shortcuts and some favorite and super useful Shortcuts of their own to share.

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