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Are You Living Like The Jetsons?
We may not live like The Jetsons, but tools like Apple’s Shortcuts help us save time and make living in the real world more enjoyable.
Did you ever watch The Jetsons? It was a cartoon from the early 60s about a family in the future. The show ran in syndication and returned for a brief stint when I was a child.
The Jetsons lived in a dome in the sky where cooking was automated, and Rosie the Robot took care of household chores. Cars both flew and drove themselves. Technology simplified all tasks. Today, Apple’s Shortcuts help get us one step closer to living like The Jetsons.
It’s well-documented that I love Shortcuts, the Apple app that lets users create automation sequences. Over the years, I’ve tried to share that love with everyone by documenting my daily journal shortcut and using the app to create a MadLibs story. Shortcuts truly are the killer feature on all Apple devices.
As of this writing, I have 45 custom-built shortcuts in my arsenal, many that I use daily. Matthew Cassinelli recently shared two of my shortcuts, who worked on the Shortcuts team at Apple and now shares his app knowledge with everyone. He caught wind of a Shortcut I shared on Twitter and highlighted my shortcuts in issues 19 and 20 of his excellent…
