Since Ijust got it today, I’m still learning how to use it.
I’ve created “actions” (actions are basically macros- sequences of events that you chain together) for sending a group txt msg to my family, one action to turn off WiFi, turn Bluetooth on, and start my podcast app. I do this when I leave work and get into the car. Although, I’m having problems with several of the actions, I dont know why.
When I kept hearing David, Katie and Rose talk about automating things, I thought that there’s nothing that I do that can be automated. Well, I was wrong, and I’ve already created a handful of automations, even though they aren’t totally reliable yet.
@tonycapp sounds good. I just get confused and don’t see the point cause you can make Siri Shortcuts to do things also. I’m just confused. I just don’t see the difference. I guess I gotta give it time and maybe I will understand.
I did cover some of this (overlaps and whys) in an earlier reply in this thread. if you haven’t read that, maybe it could help clarify things a little.
I’m really getting into using LCP now that I bought it. One issue I’m up against and I"m sure it’s just not knowing all of the ways to launch an app, is that I can’t launch the DiscourseHub app from LCP. Or I haven’t figured it out. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
One more thing: I’m noticing I’m getting low on the spots to put things (groups or actions). Is there a way to get more sheets of them aside from grouping? I didn’t see a way to create a group within a group. Or is there a better, different, mechanism I’m missing?
To launch the discourse hub app, the registered URL is discourse://. Put that into LCP. I haven’t seen any additional parameters for it to say jump into a particular forum, but that’s not to say there aren’t any.
The Discourse developer’s approach to documentation is more just in time… which has the disadvantage of leaving gaps and not providing a structured way to find relevant information.
You currently can’t have nested groups or additional spots; without getting a bigger screen. What you can do currently is use lists to put multiple action options onto what would be a single action entry (see earlier in this thread). Note that lists can be nested (see my example here).
I did see reference on Twitter from the devs to a planned change in the way to access action groups that makes me suspect something else is on the way that may allow for more launch options. At the very least it will pave the wave for an option to expand.
I do several group texts each week and text and call my wife regularly. All those are in the bottom row of LCP and those are what I use it for daily. I also have the omnifocus perspectives that I use most often in LCP and I use that to quickly get into OF where I want to go. So I use it several times a day and save 1 or 2 keystrokes each time.
How are you doing group messaging? I can’t get the url scheme for sms: to send to more than one number and everything else I’ve found seems to hacky. Everything I’ve tried usually involves some sort of extra step or app to get into the group in iMessages.
Yeah. I was hoping there was a way that’s as fast as messaging a single person that also brings up iMessage immediately. The two ways I’ve found so far are either above, which only allows you to enter text in LCP thats then passed to iMessages, or having it trigger a shortcut, which unfortunately causes the shortcuts app to open before going to iMessage and can sometimes be slow with my iPhone 6.
This is what I did. I just use LCP to open iMessage with the addresses filled in and I type in or paste the message. I have also setup a “thing” in drafts to send group texts, just to test it out.
@BBech I have to send group messages out to about 20 people a couple times a month. I always did it in drafts and would send it that way. Now I only use drafts when I have to type a lot of information then send it. For a couple sentences for a quick text I made a shortcut to send it out. All the names are automatically saved in it and I’m sending it to people on IPhone and android. It’s quick and I never had trouble with it. It can also get a photo if needed to send also.
This is the shortcut. I made a rough shortcut and @RosemaryOrchard made it 1,000 times better.
This episode prompted me to look again at LCP, which I haven’t played with much since first installing it. After some trial and error I managed to create an action so that 1Writer prepends a note to a one-line-per-day diary text file in Dropbox.
I would love to be able to insert a timecode at the start of the text input. Is there any way to do this?
If you have textexpander you can put [textexpander:ddate] (or whichever text snippet you use) before whatever the text is - however I don’t know of any other way to do this directly in LCP.
TextExpander was the only option I could se to do this as well … but if you are going out to other apps, then you could use, for example, Shortcuts, and use LCP to call a custom shortcut which builds the date and time into the 1Writer x-callback-url and then calls it instead of calling directly from LCP.
Ah. I have TextExpander on OSX but not on iOS (slowly moving to Alfred to expand snippets). I’ll have to research Shortcuts. I didn’t know LCP could chain different apps together. Can you point me to a guide, please?
I see a menu of actions. But I don’t see it very well.