Download App Store Icons
Discover how I leveraged iPadOS Shortcuts and ChatGPT to create a tool that fetches App Store icons, enhancing organization in Contacts and 1Password.
I've created a shortcut using the iPadOS Shortcuts app, and I'm so damned proud of myself. Shortcuts is ridiculously finicky. In reality, it needs a lot of work.
I'll be honest, I didn't create the shortcut. I stole the shortcut from RoutineHub and cleaned it up using ChatGPT, but wow, I had to learn that I don't understand Shortcuts before I decided to steal an existing shortcut.
I've been trying to learn Shortcuts for years. When I was a kid, I'd type BASIC programs into my Radio Shack TRS-80 in an effort to get some simple program to run, but I'd always make a mistake and have to parse through thousands of characters before giving up.
ChatGPT has been a game changer. I fed it screenshots of my stolen shortcut, and it did a great job of answering my questions with solid advice. I feel as though I'm ready to take on the world of productivity with the newly found power of artificial intelligence.
My shortcut doesn't do much. It grabs app icons from the App Store and saves them to either iCloud or the Photos app. In reality, I add those icons to my Contacts app, which allows me to easily visually identify emails in my Mail app from companies with which I do business.
I also add those icons to all types of items within my 1Password app.
I've added the shortcut to RoutineHub as Download App Store Icons (Clean Version), which makes me feel like a big shot.
If you'd like to download the shortcut directly, without feeling like a big shot, I've created an iCloud link directly to the shortcut.
If you find the shortcut useful, let me know.