Explore the User Interface
Before we start building shortcuts, let’s explore the user interface. Shortcuts is almost the same everywhere, but there’s a separate section for each platform where we can explore the various areas of the app.
Cross-Platform Similarities
While Shortcuts has its differences across platforms—as all good apps do—it also has many commonalities. This makes it much easier for you to understand and translate your knowledge from, say, an iPhone to a Mac.
A Shortcut Is a Tile
A shortcut is represented as a colorful tile. When you’re in the Shortcuts app, the tile has an icon in the top-left corner, and at the bottom is the shortcut’s name and the number of actions in it (Figure 1). And yes, you can configure these options: ...
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