So folks welcome back to keep productive YouTube channel today
I will be passing over to Geet Madon who is an Engineering Tech YouTuber
He also works very hard but creating medical devices during the day. But today he is gonna be touching on
Siri shortcuts, this is something that here on the channel
We haven't touched it too deeply on it can be a great way to automate simple processes
Now he's gonna show you a few of the Siri shortcuts that he's got set up that he uses to
Simplify daily routines that he has I fought his video about this was fantastic actually inspired me
Especially in the morning routine side of stuff to even set up stuff of very simple routines with google home
Obviously up siri shortcuts, but he shows how to actually go about
You know being able to create these sort of syria shortcuts from everything's froth at morning routine to invent routines
You know when you're winding down and also a really cool one about how to you know message people. Happy birthday
in your calendar
So you avoid you know getting anyone crossed so I will pass over to geek today his youtube channel is in
Description below a big thank you to him for coming on and doing this
He probably will be back very soon to dive into Chrome extensions, which I'm really excited for so folks
Thank you very much to eat and I'll pass over to dive into some awesome
Cereal, which is everyone's fight
Thank You Francesco and hi everybody welcome to the CV shortcuts video hi everybody, my name is geek I am a mechanical engineer
I also have a YouTube channel where I talk about technology and productivity and just general automation stuff
If you're interested, please go check it out. So I've been using Siri shortcut since I was 13
It has become the best productivity feature of iOS 13
So I just wanted to share some of the SE shortcuts I use on a daily basis with you guys
it's something that I've been developing for over a year now since I was 13 first came out and I think I am at a
Point where my CV shortcuts are pretty robust, and I might be able to share some information
and you might be able to take something away from here and maybe implemented in your
Productivity system and if you have no idea what series shortcuts are see shortcuts is an iOS app
Which is extremely powerful for automating tasks on your iPad or your iPhone
it has been made extremely powerful since iOS 13, so that has definitely
Increased the amount of things you can do with an application like this. So without further ado, let's get started
I want to keep this video a little structure
I might go back and forth but to maintain the structure, I'm gonna try to keep it within three different categories
It will be routines ideas and task capture and then we're going to talk about some fun shortcuts
The first 100 routines is my boot up sequence shortcut, which is a nested short built with two other shortcuts. Nested under it
It starts by launching my birthday today shortcut
Which goes over my calendar and contact data to check if there are any birthdays on that day if it finds anything?
It would automatically send a happy birthday message
If there's nothing it would just show me an alert about that then it proceeds to greet me with a good morning and reads out
The weather and calendar information for the day and lastly it launches a shortcut called morning apps
Morning apps is a simple menu based nested shortcut with two other shortcuts that it can launch
It presents me the list of apps and tasks that I use in the morning if I use this in the morning instead of going
through the applications on my iPad I can keep myself from getting distracted and sidetracked by other applications and then
Notifications or whatever else is waiting for me to see going from top to bottom on the menus
Plain news asks Google assistant to start playing later satellites the new sources for this action can be configured in the Google assistant app
So that's pretty simple meditation launches my meditation timer shortcut. The shortcut has links to various
Meditation videos it randomly picks one of them and starts playing them on the YouTube app
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Then I have morning general which
Circa, it starts by pulling the template for five second journal by Mel Robbins, which is then safe locally
Then it creates the copy of the template to annotate on it
And when I tap Done, it saves the annotated copy is a new file with the current date and time
Lastly there is flute music. This is just one simple action that plays instrumental bamboo flute music on YouTube music
I find listening to bamboo flute music early in the morning very soothing and if you want to try this out
Feel free to change it to whatever you find soothing
Other than these I have two more shortcuts that will fall under the category of routines iOS has an accessibility
Setting called reduce Y point which makes the screen darker than 0% brightness that you can get from the default brightness slider
So embed is a simple shortcut that enables that setting and I use it when the lowest brightness is too bright for me
They'll also make sure the brightness is set at 0% and dark mode is turned on
On the flipside out of bed reverses everything that in bed shortcut, does it turns off the reduced white point setting?
Increases the brightness to 10% which is just a little bit over 0% making it ideal for early morning
Let's talk about adding tasks with shortcuts
Sometimes it's essential to capture ideas and tasks without actually going through a whole list of
Tasks on your task managers that are pending or overdue at a shortcut is exactly that so when I tap on this short there presents
Me with a text box where I can capture tasks without ever navigating to my to-do list
when I'm done, the shorter puts all those tasks in my inbox project and to do it and
I can organize them whenever I have the time to
So my new video shortcuts basically automates creating tasks from a template in two different applications
It starts by asking me the title of the video then it copies that title to the clipboard
Then it launches the URL to my todoist video project template
Which I can manually rename using the clipboard and when I back out of to newest the shortcut creates new project an agenda
Which is my note-taking app of choice
The shortcut then proceeds to create notes based on the template the whole process happens in less than 10 seconds
So if I were to do this manually it would take 5 minutes
Although that sounds like nothing but 5 minutes a week over a period of year is about 250 minutes
The next one is a very useful shortcut. It is actually a feature that I copied from Outlook
His outlook has this ability to create meeting notes based on a calendar entry
So this shortcut starts by checking if you have a meeting within the next 15 minutes or one was started in the last 15 minutes
If it finds one
it will take all that information from the calendar event and put that in a note and
Open that know for you to start taking meeting notes
And if it doesn't find a meeting, it will open a template know with prompts for you to enter the meeting details manually
Now those were all the productivity ones let's talk about some fun shortcuts
So let's make hafiz a simple shortcut that basically is a digital progress assistant kind of a shortcut
so it starts by asking you how many cups of coffee you are making and then it does all the
Calculations and guide you through the process of making coffee
Instead of talking about it. I would love to show you this one. Well, let's get started
Just one before we get started heat a little more than 12 fluid ounces of water to about 190 degrees
But coffee you will need to grind 22 grams of coffee beans tap ok when you have the coffee grounds ready
Now let's get the apparatus ready tap ok when you have your Chemex hot water filter and coffee ready
Start pouring hot water to wet the coffee and let it bloom for 30 seconds starting a 30-second timer now
a few more seconds
All right, now you can pour rest of the water until the scale reads 355 grams
If you haven't guessed that wasn't the only coffee with a shortcut that I developed for myself
I find it extremely creative and productive to go to coffee shops and get work done which is why I developed this shortcut
Which presents me the list of all coffee shops and walking distance if I choose one from the list it starts a walking
navigation for that coffee shop on Apple Maps
it is super fun to discover a new coffee shop this way the short guy uses the current location so you can try to find
Coffee shops nearby in any location. The next one on the front one is quick article shortcut
It is a very simple shortcut is primarily designed just because I'm lazy and I hate reading. I mean, I'm also slow at it
So it's kind of inefficient as well
So this shortcut takes a web page as an input and it runs to the reading list functionality of Safari
that
extracts the article from the web page and gets rid of all the fluff that exists around the article and then it reads back the
Content of the article using the voice of Siri you can definitely customize the pitch and the rate at which Siri speaks
so you can listen to it as fast as you want or as slow as you want as
Somebody who kind of doesn't want to read efforts. This definitely has come in handy
honestly
It's not like having audiobooks cuz there's no there's no
Emotion to the text but for something as short as an article, this definitely can do the job
so PDF is definitely one of the most important file formats on the internet, but
IPhones and iPads have definitely stayed away from it. You can't really make PDFs except if you have third-party applications
It's a total mess
Which is why I have this short book on make PDF make PDF is a simple shortcut that takes whatever input you want to parse
Into it as soon as it gets that input. It will try to convert it into a PDF document
You can take a bunch of images and turn them into one PDF document
You can take a website and turn that into a PDF or you can just take multiple PDF documents and combine them into one PDF
And then you can open that PDF into a markup if you're gonna annotate on that using iPad
Or you can just save it to your files app or send it as an email or whatever you want to do with it
Thank you all for watching and thank you for an chesco for letting me have the opportunity to come here and talk to you all
about shortcuts