Melissa was psyched to figure find this out on her own - we use a shared google doc for a shopping list, and she wanted a link right it from her iPhone homescreen.
The steps, taken from apple.stackexchange.com/questions/285696/create-google-sheets-shortcut-in-homescreen, are:
- Open the document in GoogleDocs app on your iPhone.
- Tap the three dots in the top corner
- Share & export
- Copy link
- Leave the GoogleDocs app and open Shortcuts app
- Create Shortcut
- Add Action
- Search for Safari
- Open URLs
- Tap the little gray field that says URL
- Type googledocs://
- Tap and paste (the link you copied from GoogleDocs). The result will look something like http://googledocs://https://docs.google.com/document/d/bunch-of-random-characters
- Tap where it says “New Shortcut” at the top in big bold letters and name the shortcut
- Tap the three dots
- You can change the icon (the gray square with the magic wand in it) to what you want and give it a shortcut name.
- Tap Add to Home Screen
- Add
- Done
- Done/Next
Pretty keen!
The Daring Fireball's The Talk Show had Rosemary Orchard on talking about her book Take Control of Shortcuts, and she says there are tons of things to automate. I'm not sure if it's my lack of imagination, the way I am pretty good at building tools for my own workflows, or a distrust of formalizing activities that sometimes ned flexibility, but I have trouble thinking of more I'd like to do for myself, on either phone or laptop...
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