IA WRITER TUTORIAL MANUAL

This contains all the drafts that have been saved. To start off, the shortcut gets the list of drafts from Data Jar. It’s a bit long, so I’ll put the long screenshot below, and then explain why it may seem pretty complicated for what it does, and the things I had to work around. Transform the various pieces of data into a link post outline.Show the list, and allow the user (me) to select an option.Retrieve the list of link post ideas from Data Jar.This shortcut is a bit more complex, as it has to do quite a few things: Store this dictionary at the end of my drafts list in Data Jar.ĭownload the Shortcut: Add to Drafts List Starting a Link Post.Although I’ve found the author to not be very reliable. Create a dictionary with four pieces of data – the title, URL, any text that was selected that I want to quote, and also the author.Add a new reminder with the title of the article to my blog list.It accepts input from the Share sheet, in the form of a Safari web page, and then has just three actions: To start off, the Shortcut I created to do the initial data storing and reminder creation was relatively simple. That’s when I thought about using the recently released data store app, Data Jar, which is a fantastic tool for storing all kinds of data. So I came up with an idea of two shortcuts, one to store relevant data about the article I wanted to reference, and then another which I could use to select from the list and kick off a draft in iA Writer. And seeing as I would have had the article loaded at the time of reading, it made more sense to store this data, and then be able to reference it at a later date. However, that would require me to then later load the URL, and fetch the details from it. I started to think that I could simply create a reminder in the Reminders app (I’ve switched from Things), possibly with the URL as a note so I could get back to it when I needed it again. I just wanted a way to remind myself that I want to link to this at some point.

IA WRITER TUTORIAL MANUAL

Except I didn’t want to start creating drafts in iA Writer, or doing any manual work. Last night I spent some time reading on my iPad, and I noticed a few articles that I might want to link to from my blog. How I’m Using Shortcuts and Data Jar To Help Write Link Posts # 18th April 2020

Ia writer tutorial