LaunchCuts 1.2 Available: More power and customization for organizing your shortcuts

#1

I am happy to announce the latest version of LaunchCuts, which is now available on the App Store. Here’s a look at the new features and improvements in LaunchCuts 1.2. As always, full documentation available at: https://launchcuts.com/docs/

Folder Icons and Colors

Customize the look of your folders with icons and colors.

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Custom App Icons

Choose from up to five icons to represent LaunchCuts on your iOS Home screen. More icons will be added in the future. If you’re a designer, send us a new icon design, and it may be featured in a future release of LaunchCuts!

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Quick Actions

Easily access your three favorite folders or shortcuts by long-pressing the LaunchCuts icon from the iOS Home screen, the Spotlight search results screen, or the Siri Suggestions screen in Spotlight.

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Filter and Analyze Shortcuts Actions

Two new actions join the Get Folder , Get Folders , Launch Shortcut , and Open Folder actions to give you more control of LaunchCuts from your own shortcuts.

  • Filter Shortcuts allows you to find shortcuts using multiple criteria.
  • Analyze Shortcuts can tell you which of your shortcuts interact with select apps (e.g. Toolbox Pro, Pushcut, or Scriptable) or have specific actions (e.g. Comment or Set Variable).

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Enhanced Keyboard Support

Control nearly every aspect of LaunchCuts from the keyboard:

  • Navigate through your folders.
  • Change the sort setting for folders and shortcuts.
  • Move through your shortcuts using the arrow keys.
  • Run the selected shortcut by pressing Return twice.

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#2

Great release! LaunchCuts continues to Sherlock shortcuts of mine. :slight_smile:

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#3

Amazing update! Does anyone know a good resource for the wfworkflowactionidentifier for each shortcut action needed for the analyze step? Thanks!

#4

I just returned to this thread to post this very question. I agree. That would be extremely handy for the analyze shortcuts custom action.

#5

@adamtow, if I create a new folder, I’m seeing the folder and icon/colour sync between devices. If I edit an existing folder, the update to folder/colour doesn’t appear to propagate, even on force quitting and reloading the app.

Is this unique, intentional, or erroneous behaviour?

I can manually get around this if required, but seems unusual to have mixed behaviour.

#6

You can run this shortcut to get a list of all actions:

Shortcut Action List: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b6ee7f1739a84e448ec9a891307baf5b

#7

They definitely should sync. How much time are you waiting? It’s not instantaneous.

#8

Shortcut Action List will display a list of action identifiers for you. They are pretty self-explanatory what action they refer to: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b6ee7f1739a84e448ec9a891307baf5b

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#9

Well, I set the icons and colours first. Hours passed. No sync. Created new folder, near instant sync. Changed folder colour on other device just before I last posted and waited maybe two minutes, then checked back a few minutes later for that but it didn’t sync then… but checking now, that has synced since, but certainly took more than 5 minutes. First set of changes has still not synced.

Maybe it is just a glitch for me? I can easily manually fix it in about 5 minutes of effort, but it is curious behaviour.

#10

Try updating the problem folder on both devices. Then, wait a few minutes before changing the icon/color on one of the devices.

I had to push a change to the database schema, and that might be why they aren’t syncing for that one folder.

Do changes happens quickly with newly created folders? e.g. after creating a new folder, edit the icon. Does it change on the other device?

#11

As above, new folders changed quickly.

I went through a few hours ago and manually updated them all, so now everything is in sync on both devices. Once I did that, I tried a few subsequent changes and they were completed in-step within a few seconds.

It feels like the earliest updates were locked out-of-sync. Once a new update was applied that match, the lock was released and then changes were the same as for new folders.

#12

hi adam,
is there a LaunchCuts tutorial available?

thx in advance

#13

I’d first take a look at the documentation: https://launchcuts.com/docs/

There are a few tip videos on Twitter: https://twitter.com/launchcuts/

I’ll start tagging future videos so they are easier to find. And, I’ll be making more of them in the future.

If you have a specific question, let me know. Happy to help!

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