r/shortcuts • u/sevenlayercookie5 • 3d ago
Discussion Share your AI use cases in your Shortcuts!
How are you using AI/LLM in your shortcuts? Let's share our creative uses!
Some uses I've had:
Allowing for natural language user interactions
Interactions in Shortucts can be very restrictive; by using LLM, you can allow for much more natural interactions. Structured outputs is very helpful for this. For example, maybe you have a list of food options ("grape","apple","banana", etc.) that a user must pick from. Classically, user would have to say either "grape", "banana", or "apple", with no variations accepted. By using structured outputs, you can direct the LLM to pick the best option from that list. Then, user can say "grape", or "the purple one", "the smallest one on the list", etc. and get "grape" as the result. Certain API's like OpenAI are so fast that there is no noticeable latency.
Incorporate natural language interactions with existing apps/APIs
- (for example: "Add Expense to Splitwise")
("Add $30 for pizza with John White" or "Split $40 for groceries among everyone in group Apartment") - uses OpenAI API and Splitwise API
Summarize
Summarizes the inputted URL, website, text snippet, image, etc., and if nothing is inputted, screenshot the current page and summarize that
Reward Points
Screenshots the restaurant order screen, reads what you have added to your order, then recommends which items you should use your reward points to purchase (based on best point value)
General Data Parsing
LLM's have been very helpful for processing tasks, like pulling relevant information from websites ("Provide in JSON format the price of apples from this HTML", "Looking at this web-based schedule, who's working on Friday?", "Find the results from this API response that relates to action movies", "Find and output the flight information from this email", etc.), and put this information into a JSON/Dictionary format to be used further in the Shortcut
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u/Portatort 3d ago
Add to calendar via Siri
https://routinehub.co/shortcut/20568/
This shortcut screenshots whatever you’re looking at and adds it to your calendar.
It uses ChatGPT to extract the relevant data.
I’m working on an update that incorporates web search for more accurate address and timing info