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Listening Post: Ambient Music Recognition for macOS Always-on music recognition for your Mac. Local first. Supports scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz, writing to local files, automation.

🚀 Listening Post β4 is out now!

New: Support for ListenBrainz-compat scrobblers, track durations are now saved, bugs were fixed.

ICYMI: ambient #macOS 15.6+ music recognition, scrobbles to #ListenBrainz, #LastFm, local files, Shortcuts. Supports #AppleMusic & #Deezer!

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Some person mentioned my app in their newsletter or podcast! This is cool, and I'm happy about the new visitors to my website.

But: Again, no idea who it was because the referrer is "convertkit".

Good stuff, as always

Happy holidays, dear customers!

2025 certainly was … a year. Thank you for your business, for the conversations, and for us all here generally getting along.😉 I like what I do for a living, and I couldn’t do it without you. I appreciate that a lot.

I wish you and your own a good, peaceful time. 🖖🏼

Release 2025.2.0 (iOS & macOS) I’m happy to announce the release of Actions for Obsidian 2025.1.0 for iOS & macOS. Get it on the App Store! Important: Please update the companion plugin Actions URI in Obsidian before using AFO’s ...

Actions For Obsidian v2025.2 is out! Required update for #macOS 26.1 users, as it fixes a nasty bug stemming from some changes introduced in 26.1.

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#Obsidian #ObsidianMD #iOS #PKM #Automation #Shortcuts

The image shows a rounded-corner card presenting an app called “Browser Actions.” Key elements: • Top left: the app icon — a stylized white gear over a colorful, gradient background. • To the right: the app name “Browser Actions” with an external-link icon. • Below the title: the developer’s name, “Carlo Zottmann,” and a “Permalink” label with a link icon. • A yellow badge labeled “25% off!” • Description text: “Use macOS Shortcuts to automate and control Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Chromium, Brave Browser, and Safari.” • A “less” toggle indicating the section can collapse. • Links labeled “Store Link,” “Other App Links,” and “Developer Links.” • A section labeled “For macOS.” • Category tags: “Productivity,” “Smart Home and Home Automation,” and “Utilities.” • A lower panel in light blue listing sale details: • “Sale Starts: 2025-11-18” • “Sale Ends: 2025-12-01” • Text: “25% off with code FCKNZS2025” • A “more” toggle. The layout uses clean typography and soft shadows, with structured grouping of information.

Treat yourself! Get some Shortcuts-powered Browser automation magic, you know you want it.

www.indieappsales.com#app-A233225A...

#macOS #automation #Shortcuts #IndieDev #BlackFriday #Sale

ACTIONS FOR OBSIDIAN users, please help me out:

If you experienced an AFO app crash on macOS 26, I'd be *very* happy if you could send me the crash logs (Finder → Applications → Utilities → Console​.app, find AFO crash log, mail to carlo@actions.work.

Reward: a free BA or BC license! 🤩

ActionsDotWork — Productivity Tools for macOS & iOS 🚀 Productivity tools for macOS & iOS that add Shortcuts automation features to apps that need them.

Mid-Nov, folks!

Treat your #Mac with some new, surprisingly useful functionality! BarCuts is a contextual #Shortcuts launcher, and Browser Actions lets you automate #Chrome, #Vivaldi, #Edge, and others. 🚀

✨ 25% off with code `FCKNZS2025` until end of Nov! ✨

actions.work?ref=bluesky-bw #automation

With the latest updates for Actions For Obsidian and BarCuts out of the way, I can finally start building that local CRM based on #Obsidian + Apple Contacts + #Shortcuts.

Bit weird, but hell – a local CRM that syncs to macOS address book, that's a cool idea! In theory 😉

I'll keep you posted

BarCuts 2025.5 As always, if BarCuts is already running on your Mac, either wait for the automatic update to pop up on its own (which might take up to 24h), or open the app window, then select “Check for updates …” ...

And if you're curious, here are the release notes: forum.actions.work/t/barcuts-20...

BarCuts: A Surprisingly Useful macOS Shortcuts Launcher BarCuts is a menu bar app that surfaces your relevant Shortcuts workflows when you need them.

I've just released BarCuts 2025.5, the newest update for my contextual #macOS #Shortcuts launcher!

This version adds running workflows by URL, so they can be triggered from, say, your notes. Works very well with #Obsidian (just saying). It also brings performance fixes.

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I finally got around to setting up the website for my automated #Anthropic Status Bluesky account, @anthroping.zottmann.dev:

zottmann.dev/anthroping/

#ClaudeCode #Claude

Thanks! I'm currently knee-deep in updates for BarCuts and Browser Actions, but UI Actions will go (back) into beta later this year. Lots of stuff I've learned since the last time, so: lots of things that need to be rewritten 😅

Notes From Email: Your New Email-to-Obsidian Service Notes From Email turns emails into notes in your Obsidian vault. Get a unique email address, send your emails, and they appear as notes in Obsidian, with attachments.

Here's one for all my fellow #Obsidian fans: I'm building a new thing, it's called "Notes From Email", and I *think* you might like it…?

notes-from.email – A hosted service that turns every email it receives into a new note in your vault, with its attachments intact.

Yes, no? 🤔

#ObsidianMD #PKM

ActionsDotWork — Productivity Tools for macOS & iOS 🚀 Productivity tools for macOS & iOS that add Shortcuts automation features to apps that need them.

Stock up on #Apple #Shortcuts apps for #WWDC25, as you will never have enough of them!

Here's a 20% code for both BarCuts (my contextual Shortcuts launcher) and Browser Actions (which adds Shortcuts supports to your favourite browsers that aren't Arc or Firefox):

DUBDUB25

actions.work #appSale

Front matter format in Obsidian 1.9, and how to deal with it Obsidian 1.9 introduces a breaking change for some of the front matter: We have officially removed support for the properties tag, alias, cssclass in favor of tags, aliases and cssclasses. In additi...

#Obsidian 1.9 changes its front matter format for array values, so "tags: tag1, tag2, tag3" no longer works. If your vault is full of front matter in that format (aliases, note IDs etc.), then here's what you can do about it:

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#ObsidianMD #PKM #ShortcutsApp

Store 🚀 Productivity tools for macOS & iOS that add Shortcuts automation features to apps that need them.

Birthday week 2025 is on!* 🎉

Save 19.74% on my non-AppStore apps over at actions.work/store/?ref=b... with code BIRTHDAY2025 – that works for both my #macOS apps BarCuts and Browser Actions, on top of their current introductory prices!

And even if this #deal isn't for you: Mind reposting? 😉🙏🏼

My man @ileif.de penned a super-detailed review of my contextual #macOS #Shortcuts launcher, BarCuts – including the new #Raycast and #Alfred functionality! It's so thorough I might link it from the official docs…

en.ileif.de/2025/05/05/b...

German: ileif.de/2025/05/03/b...

#ShortcutsApp

INPUT/OPINIONS NEEDED:

Who are your favourite Apple Shortcuts people? Creators, developers, anyone that comes to your mind when you think about #iOS & #macOS Shortcuts stuff?

♻️Boosts/reposts are highly appreciated, thank ye 🤙🏼

BarCuts: A macOS menu bar app showing only the shortcuts that are relevant for the active app BarCuts is a menu bar app that displays your Shortcuts workflows where you need them, when you need them. It allows you to "tag" workflows to an application. When that app is active and in front, BarC...

I've just released #BarCuts 2025.0.6, which contains a fix for an issue with the #macOS 15.4 betas (which broke a CLI tool that BarCuts relied on). Had to rewrite the workflow runner code for that but oh well. 😅

actions.work/barcuts

So yeah, the beta is still ongoing, who knew?

Thanks for all the shoutouts, @johnvoorhees.macstories.net & @viticci.macstories.net! It means a lot to me, honestly! 💚

BarCuts: A macOS menu bar app showing only the shortcuts that are relevant for the active app BarCuts is a menu bar app that displays Shortcuts workflows. It allows you to "tag" workflows to an application. When that app is active and in front, BarCuts will show its tagged workflows in a menu.

Released v2025.0.4 β of my new #macOS app #BarCuts (actions.work/barcuts) last night, and I have a feeling that it'll be the last beta version before release! 🤞🏼

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(BarCuts shows your #Shortcuts workflows where you need them, when you need them. It's quite handy.)

BarCuts for macOS YouTube video by @ActionsDotWork

Give me 55s of your time, and I'll explain my new app to you!
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#BarCuts is a #macOS menu bar app that displays #Shortcuts workflows. It allows you to "tag" workflows to an app. When that app is active and in front, BarCuts will show its tagged workflows in a menu.

BarCuts: A macOS menu bar app showing only the shortcuts that are relevant for the active app BarCuts is a menu bar app that displays Shortcuts workflows. It allows you to "tag" workflows to an application. When that app is active and in front, BarCuts will show its tagged workflows in a menu.

Start your weekend in a good way with my NEW PUBLIC BETA:

BarCuts is a #macOS menu bar app that displays #Shortcuts workflows. It allows you to "tag" workflows to an application. When that app is active, BarCuts will show its tagged workflows in a menu.

actions.work/barcuts/

Reposts welcome 😅

Current challenge: "Build that new #macOS app, release the first beta within two weeks". Halfway point – I'm cautiously optimistic! It's going pretty well, I've implemented 2/3 of the core functionality already.

Anyways, if you're into #Shortcuts: I'll likely need some testers soon 😅

#ShortcutsApp

Release: Actions URI 1.7.1 Actions URI 1.7.1 was released today. Find it in Obsidian’s Community Plugins Check the GitHub release page: Release 1.7.1 · czottmann/obsidian-actions-uri · GitHub No longer broken Fixed output ...

Thanks again for bringing this bug to my attention. For anyone else finding this here post: The issue has been fixed in an update to the companion plugin, Actions URI forum.actions.work/t/release-ac...

macOS/iOS Shortcuts Quick Tip: Rename Results Variables YouTube video by @ActionsDotWork

#macOS / #iOS #Shortcuts Quick Tip: Rename Results Variables

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Browser Actions: Your favourite browser, now with macOS Shortcuts support macOS Shortcuts support for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Chromium (including Ungoogled Chromium), Brave Browser. And for Safari.

New #beta release of Browser Actions for #macOS!

2024.0.9 fixes umlauts & special characters set in Set Form Field Value etc. (Yes, it was encoding issues. It’s always encoding issues.)

Release notes: forum.actions.work/t/browser-ac...

Download: actions.work/browser-acti...

ActionsDotWork — Productivity Tools for macOS & iOS 🚀 Productivity tools for macOS & iOS that add Shortcuts automation features to apps that need them.

Hi, I'm @zottmann.dev, and this here account @actions.work is the soapbox for my one-man #macOS / #iOS dev studio, ActionsDotWork (actions.work).

Here I will publish updates and news about my apps. German engineering, baby! 😉

(Please note the comma – don't inquire about German engineering babies.)