Hello, Productivity Friends!

My name is Carlo and I'm the author of the Actions for Obsidian app for macOS & iOS. You're receiving this email because you signed up for updates about the ActionsDotWork apps on my website some time ago.

Actions for Obsidian 1.3 (macOS/iOS)

Well, I've only missed my self-imposed "End of August" deadline by a hair, didn't I? (No.) But even though the new features were a bit more involved than I expected, Actions for Obsidian v1.3 is finally out. Here are the headline features:

• Better vault handling: AFO will now keep track of successful vault connections and allow you to choose from this list when configuring your actions.
• Support for Periodic Notes: A long time coming, but in addition to Daily Notes, you can now also use Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Notes
• Support for triggering Obsidian commands: Run Obsidian Commands, i.e. what you see in Obsidian's command palette, right from your Shortcuts workflows.

See the full release notes for more details!

Announcing: Browser Actions!

It's no secret that I love me some Shortcuts, and also that I live in my browser, so this idea just popped up naturally:

Browser Actions adds well-rounded macOS Shortcuts support for Brave Browser, Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi. And also for Safari.

It comes with unified Shortcuts actions, meaning there's one (big) set of actions that works and behaves the same for all supported browsers, like in this uncomfortably weak teaser screenshot:

And Browser Action can do a lot: Creating, accessing, manipulating and closing tabs and windows. Getting page information, like title, URL, current selection, the up-to-date (!) DOM document, all of the text. Filling out and submitting forms. Running arbitrary Javascript in tabs. etc. And more to come!

A TestFlight will start in the first week of October, and everyone on this here mailing list will get a front-row spot if they like. So stay tuned!

If, however, you're super-interested and willing to earnestly kick the tires before the public TestFlight gets going (so that I don't embarrass myself), please leave a post on the Browser Actions board. Thanks!

PS: macOS 13.3+. One-time purchase for personal/family use. Commercial use will require a subscription.

Thanks for reading!

If you have questions or ideas for actions or tutorial videos, or have written or recorded something about my apps, please email me, say Hi on Mastodon, or post on the ActionsDotWork Forum! I'm always happy to chat with customers! 🤙🏼

Thanks again for your interest in my work, it means a lot to me 🙏🏼

Talk to you soon,
– Carlo