Automation/Shortcut to show upcoming events for today/tomorrow?

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I had a shortcut/automation that ran every morning at 9 AM to show me the events on my calendar for the following day. I was looking at it for something, and I accidentally deleted/altered a step, and I don’t know what I did. I can’t find the shortcut again, and I don’t know how to restore it from a backup.

I know I didn’t build it, so it must have come from somewhere, but I can’t find it again at all. Is there any help anyone can offer?

Thanks!

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Hard to debug a shortcut we cannot see and have no original clue to the source.

Here’s a basic shortcut that dumps out some info about tomorrow’s events. Amend it to suit your particular needs.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a6295926fad0421abd86f5f594662bb8

Hope that helps.

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Thanks; that should get me started. If anyone recalls the one I’m talking about (maybe it was built by @matthewcassinelli or somewhere else around here?) that works directly as an automation with Fantastical, that would be great. Also, if anyone knows how to restore a deleted/removed shortcut via Time Machine, that would be great, too.

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There shouldn’t be any benefit for using Fantastical over inbuilt Calendar app functionality for reading event data. Fantastical excels at natural language entry and a few other organisation features, but otherwise it is often just interacting with the same data store behind the scenes / standard calendar data.

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The more I play with this, the issue I’m noticing is that if I run this as an automation or from the notification, I don’t actually see the agenda. I have to run the actual shortcut, but I want it to run at 8:30 every morning and show up on my home screen.

Do I need something like Toolbox Pro to make that happen? Anyone know?

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Is this different to how your original worked? If not it would be useful to see the original shortcut, even if broken.

If it is different, then I would say it sounds like you want a widget of some sort. You could dump the Shortcut output into a specific draft and show a Drafts widget to display it, or you could build your own widget in Scriptable if you want something more bespoke.