![]() ![]() I’ve remarked on it before, but what has always impressed me most about Streaks is Crunchy Bagel’s ability to maintain the app’s elegant design while adding more powerful features with each iteration. John: Streaks is a task manager and tracking app for forming new habits that we’ve covered since its earliest days on MacStories. In another custom shortcut I’ll share later this week, you’ll see how I was able to put together a custom contact creation flow that combines Shortcuts’ native ‘Ask for Input’ actions with Quickness’ action to let you quickly add new contacts without having to use the Contacts app’s clunky UI. When used in the Shortcuts app, Quickness’ ‘Create Contact’ action contains parameters that can be filled with plain text or other variables such as dates and URLs. ![]() The app is based on a deceptively simple idea: by default, you can’t create new contacts using Shortcuts or voice interactions in Shortcuts with the actions installed by Quickness, you can. Quickness is precisely what I had in mind when I argued how, thanks to parameters, third-party apps can extend Shortcuts and Siri via actions that are just as native and deeply integrated as the ones built by Apple. This is where Quickness, a new utility by developer Zulfiqar Shah, comes in: thanks to parameters and conversational shortcuts, Quickness can expose native actions to create new contacts from the Shortcuts app or Siri with support for specific fields such as company name, email address, street address, social usernames, and more. ![]() Quicknessįederico: Shortcuts has long offered the ability to integrate with Apple’s Contacts app and framework but, much to my surprise, it still doesn’t come with native actions to create new contacts. I’m going to share at least one custom Fiery Feeds shortcut in this week’s installment of the Shortcuts Corner RSS automation is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, and Fiery Feeds’ integration with Shortcuts is opening up some fascinating possibilities. There’s a bunch of other new features worth checking out in the app’s changelog for version 2.3, but I want to call out its extensive integration with Shortcuts: thanks to parameters, Fiery Feeds can now offer actions to subscribe to a new feed’s URL in a specific account, save links for later, fetch article attributes, and more. I’ve been taking advantage of multiple windows in Fiery Feeds to catch up on unread articles more quickly and with more flexibility than ever before I like how, with just a few swipes, I can now open multiple stories as Safari windows in Slide Over, where I can flip through and close them once I’m done reading.Ī context menu with a preview in Fiery Feeds. Furthermore, as you may expect from an app that supports iPadOS multiwindowing, you can always open the Exposé view and create a new primary Fiery Feeds window from there – which is my favorite workaround to create standalone views for individual websites or folders. As I detailed in the latest issue of our newsletter, MacStories Weekly, you can now open articles in new windows from Fiery Feeds in two ways: you can open the article view of an individual story as its own window (either by using drag and drop or context menus from the article list), or long-press on a story’s headline to open it as a new Safari window. The big news in the latest version of Fiery Feeds is its adoption of multiwindowing in iPadOS. With iOS and iPadOS 13, Fiery Feeds received a massive update that further cements the app’s role as the premier RSS app for iPhone and iPad. We’ve covered a lot of the best app updates for iOS and iPadOS 13 in individual articles and through our Club MacStories newsletter, but today the MacStories team has a roundup to share of several other noteworthy app debuts and updates of late.įederico: We last took a look at Fiery Feeds earlier this year, when Ryan covered the ability to set up the popular RSS client with an iCloud account, as well as its Notes-inspired three-pane view and miscellaneous additions. System dark mode has been adopted not just by indie developers, but also major social media apps multiwindow has empowered users to work more flexibly on the iPad context menus have introduced a new layer of functionality to both iPhone and iPad and of course, Shortcuts is now simultaneously more powerful and more user friendly in iOS 13, unlocking possibilities that are only beginning to be explored. IOS and iPadOS 13 have been in users’ hands for several weeks now, and with the abundance of new capabilities those releases brought has come a wealth of third-party app updates.
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