My entry for the MacStories Automation April shortcuts contest is one I use almost daily.
When I go for walks, I like to listen to podcasts using Overcast and my AirPods Pro. Often I’ll want to checkout various links and products mentioned in the podcast, which are included in their show notes.
Luckily Overcast includes an action to get show notes for the currently playing episode. Originally I wrote a shortcut to save the show notes to Drafts, but it didn’t seem like the best place to save reading material. As a heavy user of Instapaper, I realized it would be a much better place to save them.
Unfortunately the Instapaper shortcut action only take in URLs and not text to directly. Instapaper provides users with an email address that can be used for saving text, but when I tried doing that in a shortcut, Siri would tell me that I needed to unlock my phone first in order to send an email.
Siri can call URLs without needing to unlock my phone, so as a workaround, I created an If-This-Then-That recipe to send emails to Instapaper when triggered via a webhook. (Note: I tried sharing the IFTTT recipe, but it won’t let me make it public for some reason.)
I stored the IFTTT webhook API key in Data Jar to make it easier to share across other shortcuts, but it could easily be hardcoded into the shortcut or stored in a iCloud Drive file.
Shortcut Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/075d30c36cc64f5b8107d1581d72a0ac
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