![]() The shortcut is built entirely with native actions – no scripting necessary – and it reads Safari’s ist database without modifying it (your data is safe and this shortcut is read-only). To make the process of migrating from Safari Reading List to other read-later apps easier, I created a shortcut called Reading List Exporter. The plan was simple, and I knew what to do. plist file is nothing but a fancy dictionary, and we know that Shortcuts has excellent support for parsing dictionaries and extracting data from them. More specifically, I remembered that Safari for Mac has long stored its bookmarks and Reading List items in a file called ist, which folks have been able to read via AppleScript for years. Now that it’s available on macOS, Shortcuts can get access to application support files that are kept private and hidden from users on iOS and iPadOS. Other read-later apps such as Reeder and GoodLinks have long offered Shortcuts actions to fetch links from their databases and process them in Shortcuts however you see fit Reading List, like other Apple apps, doesn’t support any actions to get the URLs you previously saved. Sure, I could manually re-save each article from Safari Reading List to Reminders, but that sounded like a chore. That immediately posed an interesting challenge. I love this setup, and I’ve been using it for nearly three months now.Įarlier this week, however, I realized I still hadn’t re-imported old articles from Safari Reading List – my previous read-later tool – into Reminders. The full details are in the story, but to sum up: using a combination of shortcuts based on Apple’s native actions, I can use Reminders to choose between long and short stories whenever I’m in the mood to read something. ![]() A few weeks ago in the second lesson of the Automation Academy for Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members, I wrote about how I’ve been using Reminders as a read-later app in addition to traditional task management.
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