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Shortcuts in Lumberyard

March 03, 2025 - Lumberyard

I almost completely forgot that Lumberyard supports Shortcuts. This means you can automate interacting with the app and quickly use that information in other apps.

As of now, Lumberyard supports the following actions:

Last Time Chore Done

This one will ask which chore you're curious about, such as "clean the filter" on your dishwasher or "clear out the drain" on your roof, and tells you the last time it was done. You could generate a handy summary report with this or just quickly find out without needing to look around in Lumberyard.

Mark Chore as Done

With this action, you can mark any given chore as done. Maybe you want to trigger this with a Shortcute so that you do this every time you also do some other recording or work in another app.

Urgent Chores

This action will give you a list of chores the app considers urgent. This means the task is either overdue or due today. You might pipe this directly into your TODO app's list for today or maybe just ask to see if there's something you need to check on.

Siri

Any Shortcut you setup using actions from Lumberyard can also be called up with Siri. Without even looking at your phone you can record you've washed the inside of the dishwasher or make sure there's nothing you need to do today.

You don't get full on Applescript on the phone, but this will get you quite a bit of the way. If you do something nifty in a shortcut, please do let me know, I'd love to hear about it!