Based on your Shortcut screenshot above (to get the name of your custom shortcut as “Emotional Diary” and what @jayelevy has described in his posts, I believe you should simply copy and paste the following into the title of each of your six Due reminders.
Shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Emotional%20Diary
When the reminder comes up, the title should be this URL and should be actionable. When you tap and open the URL it shoudl take you into the Shortcuts app and run the “Emotional Diary” shortcut.
Okay thanks! Now I understand. So I change the title of all the 6 Due reminders to that link? Actually the title of my Siri Shortcut is “Modetjek” so I guess it should be: Shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Modetjek
So I have been using this workflow for a day now. It is going well. Just a few things that I would like to hear if they could be improved upon.
This Due reminder goes off and I tap it on the Home Screen and open my phone and it opens the reminder in Due where I tap the link. That takes me to the Siri Shortcut where I select the emotion from the list, which quickly opens Drafts and inserts the text and then it goes back to Siri Shortcuts and I press OK and exit the Shortcuts app. However, I have still not completed the Due reminder so I have to go back in to Due and complete that reminder so it doesn’t go off again in 10 mins.
So it basically goes like this:
Home Screen —>
Due —>
Siri Shortcuts —>
Drafts —>
Siri Shortcuts —>
Due —> Finished.
So this workflow could be better if:
The Due Reminder was completed by tapping the link… Impossible, I know. But that would be better.
I didn’t have to exit the Siri Shortcuts app after coming back from Drafts. Basically if the Shortcuts quit itself after completion would be great. Or if it took me back to the Due app… is that possible?
Thanks Rose. I will put in an action to have it open Due at the end… I guess it is not possible to have it automatically complete the Due Reminder that began the shortcut
For me, when I use the callback to set the reminder in Due, when it pings me and I tap on it Due marks the reminder complete and launches the Shortcut.
Are you saying you need to mark it complete after writing the Draft, rather than before (when you tap on the first reminder?)
Here’s a couple of screenshots showing what I get.
Tapping on the Shortcut at the top takes me to Due.
Tapping the tick in Due let’s me Mark done and Open Shortcuts…
Yes. It does not mark as complete when I tap the link. It just starts the shortcut. Then it sends me to Drafts and return to Shortcuts and now I have set it to open Due back up and I can mark it as compete then, as the final step.
You now have a Due reminder that runs your Diary Shortcut. You don’t need the Due Shortcut anymore, it was just a helper to get your Diary into Due.
If I understand you correctly, that should achieve your goals.
Thanks a lot for your note and help. I’ve decided to not change anything about it. It really works well for me and it’s superfast. I realise that it might be even faster with your suggestions but I just don’t have time at the moment to fiddle anymore with this It is working really well and the way I want it to. Thanks a lot again and I might come back to your post later on and change it all when I have time.
Have a great day
