Using Shortcuts

First, a name clash I have to clear up: this page is about Shortcuts, Apple's automation app, not keyboard shortcuts. People mix these up all the time, and I don't blame them. Keyboard shortcuts are the key combinations you press to run a command (those live in the Commands Explorer). Shortcuts, with a capital S, are little automations you build by stacking actions together. Different things entirely.

Shortcuts are a newer automation technology available on Apple platforms.

They're similar in capability to AppleScript, but easier to get started with (you build them by dragging actions around instead of writing code), and they're actively developed by Apple. If you want to automate Bike and you don't want to write a line of code, this is where I'd start.

You can use shortcuts with Bike on macOS 13 and later. Find Bike specific shortcuts on the extension wiki. If you want to create your own shortcuts see Creating Shortcuts. This post introduces shortcuts in Bike.

Apple's macOS shortcuts documentation teaches you how to run shortcuts, place then in your menu bar, assign keyboard shortcuts, and more.

See also

• Creating Shortcuts
• Using Scripts

[^1]: These are not the same as keyboard shortcuts.