RoutineHub • RoutineKit

RoutineKit

Run your daily briefings and routines using multiple shortcuts for various information and actions

Description

This shortcut is designed as a "platform" or "utility" to run multiple other shortcuts to gather useful information for your day and/or or trigger actions that you want to run.

v2.0 Significantly expands the output options. In addition to View, Email, and Speech, you can now output to Day One, Evernote, or Drafts. This is great for automatically building your journal entries!

It works best with shortcuts built specifically for RoutineKit, but other well-behaved shortcuts can be used as well (although they may have menus or output as dialog boxes instead of formatted rich text).

Compatible shortcuts include:

Say Hello
Say Something
Say Goodbye
Battery Level
Weather
Remaining Schedule (meetings and reminders)
Quote of the Day
Word of the Day
Joke of the Day
Bible Verse of the Day
Horoscope
Random Shower Thoughts
News Feed (Reuters, NYT, MacRumors, etc.)
Active Energy
Steps & Distance
Heart Rate
Playlist
HomeKit Scene
Low Power
Full Power
And many more to come…

It is recommended that you do NOT make edits directly to this shortcut (other than configuring the shortcut inputs designed to be configured). Instead, please use one of the shortcuts designed to work with this one, such as My RoutineKit.

This shortcut incorporates the UpdateKit shortcut so you can receive a notification to download a new version when I make updates to this shortcut.

Keywords: briefing, morning, afternoon, night, schedule, calendar, appointments, reminders, to-do's, news, jokes, quotes, horoscope, health.

Uses: RoutineKit, UpdateKit.

Compatibility: iPhone, iPad, Watch (limited), HomePod (limited).

Latest Release Notes

2.1 - Sept. 30, 2019, 3:48 p.m.

Fixes for iOS 13.1 and for output to Drafts, Day One, Evernote, and Speech.

Past versions

Feedback

@Chibasen

Awesome update! Is there a way to get it hands free like The Morning Routine shortcut? I see you have the voice set in there but it doesn’t seem to work. And can I add music and weather along with a direction option for scheduled appointments?
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@timnicholson Author

Thanks! I sure spent a lot time writing it and am glad folks are starting to use it. Also thanks for finding that bug where the output format couldn't be changed by configuring the shortcut itself. I just released an update (v1.5), which contains the fix. BTW, I would recommend downloading the My RoutineKit shortcut as it's best to edit the dictionary of what runs there. But you will need to change the "RoutineKit" entry in the dictionary to change OutputFormat to Speech.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@Chibasen

Done. And runs great. Thanks
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@timnicholson Author

Weather should already be in the delivered RoutineKit dictionary. I haven't written a shortcut for music yet, but I'm planning on it. You should be able to add any existing shortcut for music to the dictionary to run it. You would want one that doesn't use alerts unless you don't mind them popping up while running your routines. I think I saw a directions to next appointment shortcut on this site. You could add that too and see how it works.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@Chibasen

How can I add A sports and tech Feed?
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@timnicholson Author

I just released a new version of My RoutineKit (v1.3) for you that fixes the Reuters news feed and adds ESPN.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@timnicholson Author

I just released a new dedicated ESPN News shortcut that lets you pull from 9 different sports! :-) https://routinehub.co/shortcut/1623
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@timnicholson Author

BTW, I wrote you a Playlist shortcut to let you trigger music from your routine. Playlist [https://routinehub.co/shortcut/1588]
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@Chibasen

Error message on Date conversion
Reply · 10 months, 1 week ago

@timnicholson Author

There aren’t any date conversions in RoutineKit itself, so it must be in one of the shortcuts you are running. Are you able to tell which one is causing the error?
Reply · 10 months, 1 week ago

@Chibasen

Weather and calendar
Reply · 10 months, 1 week ago

@timnicholson Author

I updated RoutineKit itself as well as the Remaining Schedule and Weather shortcuts. Note that iOS 13 broke calling of UpdateKit, so you’ll need to manually download the new versions from this site. Can you let me know if they work now for you?
Reply · 9 months, 4 weeks ago

@Chibasen

All good now. Thank you
Reply · 9 months, 4 weeks ago

@DandyLyons

I would love to use RoutineKit. But for some reason it keeps crashing. It keeps getting the error message: "Shortcut Not Found: Make sure a valid shortcut is selected in the Run Shortcut action." I'm not sure why. I know that the shortcut names need to be exactly the same as the dictionary entry or else it won't call it but I'm not even sure which shortcut is hanging it up.
Reply · 3 months ago

@timnicholson Author

Put a QuickLook before the Run Shortcut and you should be able to tell which shortcut it is crashing on.
Reply · 3 months ago

@DandyLyons

Wow thank you for the quick reply. That worked. The quick look showed me "Weather" and I didn't have the Weather shortcut installed. Surprisingly it broke the whole shortcut instead of just throwing up an install message. No matter. I have it installed now and it's working nicely. Right now I'm working on trying to get it to speak and show text at the same time.
Reply · 2 months, 3 weeks ago