Apple Notes and Shortcuts

[vsp]

Just dipping my toes into Shortcuts on MacOS…so I may be missing the obvious.

End Goal is to have a Smart folder in Apple Notes that shows just my pinned notes across all my folders. I don’t see a built-in way of doing this so it appears I have to use a #Pinned tag and apply that or take it away when a note is pinned/unpinned.

So I need an automation that will Pin a note, and apply a #pinned tag. If already pinned it would unpin it and remove the tag.

Looking through the Shortcuts app, I don’t see any options for this in the Notes actions, either pinning or applying a tag (looks like I can do it in Bear, but I’m trying to reduce subscriptions).

For shortcuts, am I only limited to what actions I see available to me in the righthand sidebar?

Is this something I’d need a more advanced tool like Keyboard Maestro for (meaning I could only do it on my Mac, not my phone)?

[Bmosbacker]

This is probably not what you are needing but if you click on “All Apple” all of your pinned notes appear above the “Notes” label.

[vsp]

Yeah, and that works fine. I was hoping to clean the list up.

Smart Folders seemed a good solution for having both options. And an excuse to see what I can learn in shortcuts.

But it does seem I can do what I want in shortcuts itself.

[nationalinterest]

I’m pretty sure it’s not possible. The actions only allow plain text note creation/append and features like tags and checkboxes aren’t recognised.