Siri Shortcuts tutorial: DIY Daily Briefing
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2018
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Take a walkthrough of a Siri Shortcut that’s helpful in everyday life - see what’s ahead on your schedule for the day.
Get the shortcut here: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/eee3...
Follow along to build in your own reminders, check what’s on your calendar, and see whose birthday it is today.
In this, you’ll learn about how to make a Shortcut that works with Siri, how to work with magic variables, how to repeat with multiple things, and how to use Count & If actions to make logical conditions - fancy stuff!
I also found a few bugs - time to file a radar :)
Check out my other videos for more on Siri Shortcuts:
• My TOP 10 Shortcuts! Built working at Apple • My Top 10 Shortcuts! (...
• Siri Shortcuts basics: Getting started with the Shortcuts app! • Siri Shortcuts Introdu...
• Shortcuts EXPLAINED! Did Siri actually get better? • Shortcuts Explained! D...
• Shortcuts in under 3 minutes: How to make GIFs on iPhone! • Shortcuts in 3 mins: H...
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I'm also a business strategist & marketing consultant advising app developers/brands on their Siri Shortcuts integrations. Get in touch: www.cassinelliconsulting.com
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As a computer science student, I find the shortcuts app fascinating. I love being able to build little pseudo programs on my phone to make mundane tasks a lot easier. When I’m not working on big projects for classes, I’m on my phone making a shortcut that divides my power bill by and sends a Venmo request to my roommates. Or making shortcuts to extend Spotify’s functionality through Siri. Thank you so much for making this wonderful app!
I now wake tf up Cyberpunk 2077 style and get immediately told all the shit I got to do that day as well as the weather thanks to this tutorial. Thanks so much! 😊
EXCELLENT video. You explain everything very well!
Matt! This one was great. Looking forward to implementing this myself.
Fantastic video. Great to see magic variables in action!
Fantastic! These videos are so helpful!
JOATEON Thanks! Glad to hear it - always open to feedback if you’d like to see more/less of anything :)
Thank U thank U thank U. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Very good explanation pace was good, instructions were on point. Thank you
Great video Matt. It was a lot for me to follow, but I'll review this again to make sure I got it all correct.
Awesome video, Matty C! I have been tinkering as best as I can. I have a growing list of shortcuts, that I am attempting. Shortscuts for everything!
Calvin 😎
Matthew: Thank you so much for this very informative You Tube video. I was very excited to see Siri Shortcuts come out and have been working with them. Your videos are the most clear and concise. I downloaded your Agenda shortcut but wanted to add a weather forecast and cheery message. After much cursing and deleting, I managed to do so with the free Dark Skies app. Now, after my upcoming agenda, I get a brief weather report and Seri tell me to have a Great Day! I think equally important as the shortcut is you ability to make viewers not fear to play with the programing. Thanks!!
This is great. I totally see myself using this from my watch or on CarPlay during my morning commute.
The “Repeat With Each” action always confused me until now. I have watched this video a dozen times and have referenced it easily twice that amount. I loved how you showed that the initial output was a bit jacked up but you showed how that you corrected the issues. 𝗦𝗢 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣𝗙𝗨𝗟
Thank you so much for this video! This is almost exactly the shortcut I’ve been looking to build! So glad I found this channel. Even though I am terrible at making my own shortcuts, I love learning about this kind of stuff!
Connor Duffus Awesome, glad to hear that Connor!
I expect everyone to be terrible at it, no worries there - there’s a lot to learn.
Yeah, this was very useful. However, maybe I’m thinking of Google Home, but isn’t there one of these already? That’s what I was searching for, perhaps, or I’m mistaken for Google Assistant. Anyhow, Usually, I’d instead read the watchmen video, but this video was perfectly well done and concise ll
Oops. I mean, Isn't there a template built-in, so the filters don’t have to be configured. And when you say the word “agenda,” bing bang boom, it brings up the weather, headlines, due/overdue tasks/reminders/birthdays, etc.
Very helpful video 👍
More videos like this please! 😄
Such a great channel
I just made a weather shortcut that mimics the way Siri says the weather. If anyone wants the weather read out to them in their morning routine. I based my calendar one on this agenda one. But now you can just say hey Siri give me my update and she’ll do weather, calendar and read the news. I don’t use this because I want to control HomeKit scenes and have a random fact.
This is awesome! I was trying to work on this! Thanks for the shortcut!
Magic cards land never Ca ca No problem! Glad I could help.
Working on any others?
Matthew Cassinelli something similar to google good morning routine.....tell me about the weather, my commute, todays calendar, and reminders. I found different shortcuts to do each step but I have to put them all together.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Another great video Matthew!!!
Thank you Drax! Also, cool name :)
Matthew Cassinelli Thanks! It’s short for Draxillian. It’s an old family name and dates back to Ancient Rome.
Nice... I haven’t realize I could rename magic variables, neither that Repeat Item and Repeat Result would store the entire array of data, I had to iterate an array in one of my shortcuts and the logic was huge... with those Repeat Item and Result I’ll be able to simplify them...
Very cool video!
Great video 👍. And also 👍 for all your videos in the shortcuts series.
I’ve adapted the agenda app and made minor adjustments, but I cannot figure how to display 2 calendars at the same time? I use an exchange and a gmail for business and private.
For looking at my events i use my Apple Watch, except for birthdays, for those i have an Special Calendar named "Birthdays" and run a Shortcut each day i make a review (Sundays), this then creates tasks for each day X person has his birthday, and includes the info of the person, in the note of a task in Omnifocus including a direct link to make a call and wish them a Happy B-day.
Dide. this is amazing! Only thing, do you have any idea, is it possible for Siri to ignore emojis in event titles? And also make a short pause between telling two event titles? Thanks!
NICE!
Can you create some that work with the weather?
great vid - also, where is your shirt from?
Still very useful after 3 years.
where did you even start from??? I'm trying to build this agenda on my phone so I can add to my morning routine "Alarm off" automation.
Great vid tut. However I can’t seems to get “hey siri” work then read all the agenda. Also, the link you have for the shortcut is no longer available. Any update??
I love your content.
I’m fiddling with it trying to fix it when there are no upcoming reminders. Right now it says, “Your upcoming reminders are Here are your events for today” which will confuse me and I’ll end up looking to see if I really don’t have any or there’s a glitch (my life is full of glitches).
0:36 Setting up the shortcut
1:20 Find Reminders
2:47 Get the upcoming reminders
4:32 Calendar events
5:37 Show results
6:28 The author runs the shortcut
6:40 Improving results
Hi Matt, I created this shortcut when you brought out this video. I did some small changes and it worked great. However, since i updated to ios 13 the shortcut does not work anymore when I run it from Siri. It says it found an issue. It still does work directly from shortcuts app. Any ideas?
Hey, Matthew. Thank you so much for your channel, so much useful and new information and most important easy to understand building commands to people who never code. I have started to use Siri Shortcuts just few days ago and I’m so happy with the results, however somehow your shortcut playing different on my devices and not like at your video. Siri after every task telling me: ‘that’s done. Done” and not showing the result at all, when I’m running this shortcut from app it’s work perfectly. Can you please explain what issues I’m fighting with? Thank you so much ones again
Hey Michael, this has been super broken and is fixed now - definitely really frustrating. I was trying to make more videos and couldn’t get it to work myself! They should be fine now, if not I’ll have to make a video and shame them for breaking our tool!
I’d love to see you walk through your Share Free Time shortcut; I’ve been trying to figure out how you thought through the logic of it.
Bryant Manning Lol I’m not gonna lie, I probably couldn’t easily in a video. It was a challenge and I basically forgot, there’s some weird inversions & I think I reversed it from another a long time ago.
Haha! I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figure it out to customize it. I use it every day.
I don’t see the show result script in my shortcuts app
Damn! That was complex!
Hello, great tutorial. I downloaded the shortcut but my iPhone Xr will not have Siri speak out when I invoke the shortcut using hey Siri. This is happening with other shortcuts I have also. Can’t figure it out and it’s driving me nuts! Any suggestions?
This bug should be resolved! It was down for a while there, pretty frustrating for sure :/
cute!
This is one of the best features on iphone imo
Hi Matthew! I assume you are running some kind of developer beta version. Are you able to setup specific alarms for tomorrow (not just to toggle existing ones)? Is that functionality coming in the future to rest of us?
Thanks for your videos! Keep them coming 🙂
Marko Glišić Stay tuned for the Apple event tomorrow ;)
@Matthew Cassinelli Just updated to 12.1 and nothing changed... :( still no option to create alarms with Shortcuts... Edit: i forgot to update Shortcuts app 🤦♂️
Hi, the shortcut link appears to be broken, is there any way I can still get a copy of this so I don't have to recreate from scratch?
Is it working now? Sorry for missing this! www.icloud.com/shortcuts/eee358a10b214708b4ead601c3d918a0
Do you know of a way to show current all day events? Say I have an all day event that runs across many days, if the start date isn’t today it doesn’t show up at all. It’s really bugging me.
By the way I love your content!
How do you get the reminder shortcut to filter subtasks within the reminders?
Julia V You might need to use Find Reminders twice, first to find the main reminder, then again to filter by the subtasks - that, or you can tap on the Reminders variable and switch it to subtasks, depends on what you’re trying to do!
Happy to help more
@@MatthewCassinelli I used the find reminders twice and it worked, thank you!
Loved the video. Thank you! Question: how could you get Siri to read everything to you?
Hey David - using the Show Result and running it from Siri will get her to speak the text out loud. Alternately you could pass the info into Speak Text - check out my HomePod video for more examples: ua-cam.com/video/8w7zDk7jmq4/v-deo.html
Matthew Cassinelli I watched the video and still don't know how to send show result to siri? Or how to make siri speak it. I hope you get back to me as it's annoying, I did everything you did and still couldn't use it I wish that could be played automatically each morning after the alarm stops.
Hi David! Did you figure it out? I still have the same issue :(
@@BassmahOnline Didn't see Matt's response so I haven't tried yet.
David Rathbun Thanks for your reply. I still don"t know how can I ask siri hey siri what's my day like and make siri state all of that? I am slightly close to the point of making it speak inside the app during the setup of the shortcut but still can't link siri to it and make siri answer my question what's my day like. :(
I copied everything, and the test run gives me the desired data output, but once I tell Siri to run the shortcut, she just answers "That's done". Any idea what I might have missed?
Hi mate I found a flaw in the Birthday’s sections. (In a lot of cases it’s not a problem since you don’t usually have more than one birthday a day but if there are, instead of passing the repeat with results into the Birthdays statement, you’ve passed the text, only adding the first birthday. Furthermore. For birthdays it’s actually better to use a birthday calendar, instead of reading all your contacts, it’s significantly faster. That way you don’t have to go and edit all your contacts too, you can just import a Facebook calendar for instance. The reason calendar events work faster is because they’re preprocessed and are a small list, using contacts you have to parse about 400 contacts or more depending.
How do you import Facebook calendar?
But what will happen if there are no calendar or reminder events to read?
Rowan Strang You could add in the logic for that too! I guess I fill up my stuff a ton so there’s usually something.
Instead of Nothing you could add some text that’s like “No events today”.
How can I add a shortcut to Siri with iOS 13? I’m too stupid... 🙁
Matt, everything works except for the birthdays. Any idea why?
Those are likely All Day events which this is designed to avoid
@@MatthewCassinelli Hello Matt, thanks for sharing your shortcut. This agenda shortcut works well apart from birthday...... I am expecting it to tell me who's birthday is today but it doesnt work..... any idea why? Thanks
I think I know why it's not working but dont know how to fix it. When the birthday in contact doesnt have a year then it won't work, so it will only work when the birthday in contact contains year.
How did you get it so that siri doesn't say "shortcut says" before the shortcut output?
Jasper Peters I’m on the latest beta, but I’m pretty sure this is a server-side thing that’s being fixed soon. I have a feeling the next version will drop with iOS 12.1 tomorrow, so hopefully everyone gets it quickly!
Glad it wasn’t showing up for my video :)
It’s been that way for everyone for a few days now
Yep seems to kind of work now. Strangly it only works with shortcuts I add/readd now, any that were already added still have this "issue".
Jasper Peters Ah nice, needing to update the older ones is good to know. Thanks
Where do I put today’s weather ?
Pat Fraser It’s coming soon - there’s a new Weather action in Shortcuts 2.1, I think it’s launching tomorrow. Will make sure to mention and link an updated version when the time comes!
Are you in a hurry, you're going so freaking fast lol
Doing this for each day is Too much work just to be reminded of your things on that certain day
Jet Modos I agree that it does seem like a lot for every single day - was mostly saying you *could* now because of Shortcuts.
It’s taking me a while to adapt to more voice stuff but when the opportunity arises it’s nice to have it - I’ve been waking up earlier and trying to protect my mornings, so leaving my phone aside & triggering this from my Apple Watch has been handy while I’m getting ready.
Matthew Cassinelli is there a way to sync the reminders and calendar default apps to automate this?
He’s mine I tried it in my iPad and it didn’t work
Can you update it to when you don’t have anything on your calendar it doesn’t read or say “here’s your calendar events:”
Korie Jenkins I can - I’m curious if you could based on what I built for the other two! It’d be a similar logic, just Count, If, and Text the same ways.
Try it if you can, learning yourself is the best for the future - otherwise if you can’t get I can jump in again.
Just doing my sherpa thing :)
When you need to know programming just to write a fucking shortcut. Fucking Apple. This shit is so easy and intuitive in Google Assistant it’s insane.
Please link me to where you can easily create Google Assistant answers and I’ll do so
Way past being a pensioner, I can see you're doing brilliant stuff but, sadly, far too quickly for me to even take notes. About 1/4 speed would be about right. I'm now going for coffee then will be running this again and again (x4). Regardless, I thank you for the trouble you've taken.
Hi. Love what you do. But, if this is a tutorial video, you need to slow it down. I'm starting to learn shortcuts but if you doing it at this rate I can't even follow. Just my opinion.
If only you could have done it bit slowly!
I’m making a new one - it’s hard to edit down a shortcut-building process and not have it been fairly quick. I do livestreams occasionally on how to build them that are easier to follow along.
Guys I’m a UA-camr
No doubt this is correct, but You are going so fast i got irritated and skipet following allong. 😒
Too fast
Nice video! I’m enjoying the content but can you stop saying ‘go ahead’ quite so much please.
Kieran Devlin Good call, that’s one of my verbal ticks right now. I keep saying “basically” and “so...” a bunch too.
Thanks for the feedback!
Cool but not as helpful as I hoped
Making a new one now 🔜
Your instructions are awful and not clear, slow down if u wanna followers thx
Andy Wang Your comment was awful and not nice, stop doing this to people you follow