No longerShortcuts is coming to the Mac this fall with macOS 12 Monterey, and it looks amazing.
The Mac has way more power than the iPad and iPhone when it comes to automation.
you’re able to pretty much program it to do whatever you want.
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The Old Way vs the New Way
Automation is as old as the Mac itself.
Shortcuts started life as a third-party app called Workflow.
Apple bought it, turned it into Shortcuts, and has been making it better ever since.
Automation might be the ultimate power-user feature, so its great to see it finally coming to the Mac.
When you fire off the shortcut, it executes these steps, and gives you the result.
The neat thing is, ever since Shortcuts was launched, tons of third-party developers have added support.
Its a thriving ecosystem.
I have hundreds of Shortcuts on my iPad, and dozens I use multiple times daily.
And every time I go back to my Mac, I miss them.
Thats why Shortcuts for Mac is such a big deal.
This means you should be able to run your old Shortcuts on the Mac, with no tweaking necessary.
But Monterey also will add a lot of new Shortcuts features that are Mac-specific.
That aforementioned resize-screenshot-to-JPG shortcut could work like this: drop an image, and it gets converted.
Try getting your Mac to automatically save selected incoming emails as PDFs, for example.
On the iPad, its easyusing Shortcuts.
Automation might be the ultimate power-user feature, so its great to see it finally coming to the Mac.
