So I now have a Shortcut accessible from my iPhone Lock Screen. When I press on icon to launch it, I am presented with a window to type some text. When I am finished typing I press Done. I’m asked if the text has a category on my blog, and from there it is published. Like this one 🥳
@peroty I created a Shortcut that allows the user to type in text that gets published straight to Micro.blog. Ideal for short posts. It needs to be tidied up a bit, has some superfluous leftovers from another Shortcut, but works.
As it is useful for a quick thought that I want to post, I thought that it would be great if I could access it from the Lock Screen. Enter Quick Launch which amongst other things, allows you to run a Shortcut as a Lock Screen widget.
So now I can press the icon for the Shortcut on the Lock Screen, am taken to a screen to enter text and from there to publishing it to Micro.blog.
@crossingthethreshold Quick launch looks very cool! I’ve played with Shortcuts but always end up getting frustrated and giving up.
I’ll have to check out quick launch as that may be a missing piece for me.
And I would be interested in seeing the shortcut if you want to share.
@peroty Quick Launch, in some of its uses makes use of Shortcuts, and so it can seem like a Shortcut dance at times, but it is over quickly, is unobtrusive in my opinion and does get the job done.
I need to tidy up the Shortcut. Once I have done that, I’ll share it.
