New app from Sindre Sorhus, an enhanced shortcut-runner menu app

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I’m not enough of a Shortcuts power-user to need it yet, but I feel like plenty of people here might be interested:

From the description:

Features

  • Instant Access – All your favorite shortcuts available from the menu bar
  • Smart Organization – Organize shortcuts into sections and submenus
  • App-Specific Shortcuts – Show different shortcuts based on the active app
  • Keyboard Shortcut – Toggle the menu with a customizable hotkey
  • Customizable Menu Bar Icon – Choose between multiple menu bar icons to match your style
  • Launch at Login – Always ready when you need it

Short Run benefits (compared to the built-in Shortcuts menu bar item)

  • Choose the order of shortcuts
  • Organize shortcuts into sections and submenus
  • Show some shortcuts only when a specific app is active
  • Cleaner interface with just the shortcut name
  • Menu closes automatically when running a shortcut
  • Open the menu with a keyboard shortcut and navigate to shortcuts using arrow keys
  • Customizable menu bar icon
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Sindre Sorhus makes excellent, creative and reliable apps. Great to see him release this one.

Katie

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Nice, I will have a play, although I don’t remember thinking there was any friction with the native Shortcuts menu options.

One thing I have done recently though (last 2 months) which has been a quality of life improvement is assign keyboard shortcuts to my most used Shortcuts. I’ve then mapped them on my keyboard as keys so that I only have to press a button or couple of buttons to run certain shortcuts. This has eliminated the need to navigate the Shortcuts menu at all for common shortcuts. For example, I have one that changes screen settings and office light settings for when I’m tired, and I can just trigger it from my keyboard now.

I’ve been experimenting a little with more automated Shortcuts as well (when this happens, do that), but I still like to be the trigger a lot of the time at present so I’ve found that less interesting.

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