Automate Your Mac with Shortcuts
Mac users have long had a great many choices when it comes to automation. There’s the venerable AppleScript, of course. Among many other options are Automator, shell scripts created and run in Terminal, and macro utilities such as Keyboard Maestro.
In iOS and iPadOS, however, Apple took a different approach to automation: the Shortcuts app, based on an earlier third-party utility called Workflow. Shortcuts proved to be quite popular, and has reached a sufficient level of maturity and usefulness that Apple has now brought it to the Mac, too, in Monterey. For the time being, at least, it supplements the existing options rather than replacing any of them, though (as I explain shortly) Apple does seem to be treating ...
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