iOS Shortcut

[ykz4qjn7jj]

A lot of my work is around how easily iOS shortcuts can extract information from Reminders and send to someone on Whatsapp. For example if my Reminders has a shopping list, I can easily write a shortcut that marks completed items as a and items yest to buy with a and arrange them nicely in a list and send to my partner on Whatsapp. At the click of a button. Literally!

I tried to replicate the same in Agenda but couldn’t. On investigation I found that in Agenda “item” on iOS shortcuts there is no “type” as a “reminder” or a “subtask”.

I feel this puts a massive gap in majority of my shortcuts to work with Agenda.

Is there any workaround?

[heyscottyj]

Absolutely! The way I would do it would be like so:

Take the content of an Agenda note as text, then use a Split Text action to divide the whole text by new lines. You can then Repeat With Each and use an If action to look for lines that begin with - [ ] , which is the plaintext/markdown notation of a task. If true, do something cool with it, if false, maybe do nothing, or do something else.

Hope this helps, let me know if you need more help and I can make you a proof of concept or starter Shortcut.

Cheers,

ScottyJ

[ykz4qjn7jj]

Managed to achieve this but I am using Public Beta so the shortcut is unstable for now. Let’s wait for September when iOS will finally be upgraded and I’ll redo it.

Also, sorry for rating spoilers. I am a bit strict

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Animated

10 Lives
Despicable Me 4
Fixed
Pink Unicorn
The Canterville Ghost
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
The Inventor
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
The Tiger’s Apprentice
The Wild Robot
Untitled Wallace and Gromit Movie
Wish
Zootopia 2
Inside Out 2
Robin Robin
Robot Dreams
Woody woodpecker goes to camp
Megamind Vs. The Doom Syndicate
Kung Fu Panda 4
Migration
Elemental
Nimona
Orion and the Dark
The Boy and the Heron

[ykz4qjn7jj]

Have you managed to do this with Subtasks? Can you share the shortcut please?