{"id":25546,"date":"2021-11-30T15:23:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25546"},"modified":"2021-11-30T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T00:11:38","slug":"blog-this-shortcut-for-ios-or-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/30\/blog-this-shortcut-for-ios-or-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog This Shortcut for iOS or macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/shortcuts\/fad3a92d9eeb429892f2a5a618802cdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/blogthis.png\" alt=\"Blog This shortcut button image\" title=\"blogthis.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"177\" height=\"107\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><\/a> I&#8217;ve been working for the past few days on constructing a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/shortcuts\/welcome\/ios\">Shortcut<\/a> to use for quickly sending a link and block of text to whatever blogging software I&#8217;m using on whichever device I&#8217;m on at the moment. As of today, I&#8217;ve hit a point where it does everything I wanted it to when I started playing, so I&#8217;m designating this an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/shortcuts\/fad3a92d9eeb429892f2a5a618802cdf\">official &#8220;version one&#8221; release<\/a> (for posterity&#8217;s sake, I suppose I can refer to the prior two versions as the <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/27\/25527\/\" title=\"Eclecticism: Figured out how to...\">alpha<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/11\/29\/25538\/\" title=\"Eclecticism: Updated my iOS...\">beta<\/a> releases).<\/p>\n<p>The Shortcut is now cross-platform, with many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/10\/building-cross-platform-shortcuts\/\" title=\"Six Colors: Building cross-platform shortcuts\">Jason Snell<\/a> for giving me exactly the final pieces I needed.<\/p>\n<p>Selecting some text on a webpage and then using the Share Sheet on iOS or the Services menu on macOS will grab the webpage link and the selected text, convert it to <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/projects\/markdown\/\">Markdown<\/a> format, convert any relative URLs in the selected text to absolute URLs, and then place the final text into a new <a href=\"https:\/\/ulysses.app\/\">Ulysses<\/a> sheet on iOS or <a href=\"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/marsedit\/\">MarsEdit<\/a> post on macOS, all ready for any final edits before publishing to your blog.<\/p>\n<p>If this shortcut might be of use to you, either as-is or with some modifications for your particular needs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/shortcuts\/fad3a92d9eeb429892f2a5a618802cdf\">download<\/a>, tweak if necessary, use, and (hopefully) enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/blogthis_macos.png\" alt=\"Blog This service menu item on macOS\" title=\"blogthis_macos.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"381\" style=\"float:left;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/blogthis_marsedit.png\" alt=\"MarsEdit window with shortcut output text\" title=\"blogthis_marsedit.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"346\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-platform iOS\/macOS shortcut for blogging with MarsEdit or Ulysses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2039,2040],"tags":[1548,1645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}