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Set up an Automation with me

This video walks through the set up of a Smart Tag automation: Tapping a Tag to set Laundry Timers. Start with this simple one, and keep exploring from there!

What’s a Shortcut… annnnd

What’s an Automation?

The Shortcuts app lets you automate little things by selecting a trigger, and setting up an action (the actions are called shortcuts). Below, I have SHORTCUTS I made for you to download, and you’ll need to make them into Automations. Apple doesn’t let me link to built-for-you Automations.

Important Downloads

Step 1: Get the Shortcuts app

Apple’s Shortcuts app is 100% free and is the most under-marketed iPhone feature of all time.

Get Shortcuts iPhone app

Step 2: Get the Shelpful app

Shelpful has an integration with Apple’s Shortcuts app 🤩. Adding Shelpful to your shortcuts sprinkles some magic into any automation … because it actually talks back and follows up with you.

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Your automations go further when you have an AI buddy circling back on stuff.

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Step 3: Install one of the made-for-you shortcuts below 👇

I built some sample automations to give you a taste of how it works! If you want to realllllly dig in, I also have an Automate Your Life 101 workshop you can watch — currently $29.99 $68.

57 Made-For-You SHORTCUTS

Tap the button from your iPhone browser to install it.

If you want to make it an Automation:

Go to Automations tab >> pick a trigger >> add the shortcut

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Smart Tag Shortcuts

Tap a Shelpful Smart Tag to trigger these — no unlocking, no app-opening, no thinking required.

🌅 Morning Reset
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Wake Up Helper

Start your morning with intention. Triggered when you turn off your alarm or at a specific morning time.

📱 Clock · Health

Download Wake Up Helper
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Morning Vibes

Automatically set your vibe in the morning using alarm, time of day, or a Smart Tag.

📱 Clock · Music

Download Morning Vibes
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Spoken Morning Rundown

Feeds your weather and calendar into ChatGPT, which reads you a personalized spoken morning briefing. Can be triggered from a Smart Tag on your pill bottle, your nightstand, or set it to auto-run when your alarm goes off.

📱 Weather · Calendar · ChatGPT

Download Spoken Morning Rundown
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Great Morning™ NEW

The complete morning briefing your phone should have been giving you all along. Weather, your calendar, reminders, and a gentle kick-start — all in one tap of your morning Smart Tag.

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📱 Calendar · Reminders · Weather

Download Great Morning
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Spoken Daily Briefing NEW

Your phone speaks today's calendar events and reminders out loud. Tap your morning Smart Tag and just listen — no squinting at your screen while half-asleep.

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📱 Calendar · Reminders · Siri

Download Daily Briefing
🚪 Out the Door
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CarPlay Shortcut

When your phone connects to CarPlay or Bluetooth, auto-send an ETA or prompt: "Anything I can do at the next stoplight, safely?"

📱 Maps · Messages

Download CarPlay Shortcut
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I Unplugged the Curling Iron

For anxious brains everywhere: tap this to text yourself (or someone else) that you unplugged the curling iron. Great for travel days, rushed mornings, and stopping the "Wait… DID I?" spiral.

📱 Messages

Download Curling Iron Confirmation
🍳 Kitchen Magic
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Dictate Low Inventory

Quickly capture anything you're running low on. Trigger via Siri, Smart Tag, or a scheduled daily time.

📱 Reminders · Microphone

Download Low Inventory
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Tea Timer + Cozy Vibes

Tap a Smart Tag near your teapot to start the perfect steep timer, ping your Shelpful AI buddy to follow up, and play a cozy song to set the mood. Ideal for grounding breaks, nightly rituals, or whenever you need a tiny moment of calm.

📱 Clock · Music · Shelpful

Download Tea Timer Shortcut
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The Cheating Chef NEW

Cooking multiple things at once? This shortcut handles the chaos. Set labeled timers for each thing on the stove so nothing burns while you're distracted. Tap your kitchen Smart Tag to start.

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📱 Clock

Download The Cheating Chef
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Recipe → Shopping List NEW

Paste a recipe URL and this shortcut uses AI to pull every ingredient into your Reminders list automatically. Tap your kitchen Smart Tag before grocery day and you're done in seconds.

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📱 Reminders · ChatGPT

Download Recipe → Shopping List
👕 Laundry Time
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Laundry Timer – 2 Ways

Double-team your laundry. Uses iPhone Reminders and Shelpful to ping you multiple times — so there's genuinely no way the wet clothes sit there for three days. Because one reminder alone wasn't cutting it.

📱 Reminders · Shelpful

Download Laundry Timer – 2 Ways
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Laundry Reminder NEW

Tap your laundry Smart Tag to start a timer — and get a notification when it's time to move the load. No more rewashing wet clothes you forgot about for three days.

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📱 Reminders

Download Laundry Reminder
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Laundry Timer NEW

A beautifully simple 2-tap laundry timer. Tap your Smart Tag, pick wash or dry, and get pinged when it's ready to move. That's it. That's the whole thing.

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📱 Reminders

Download Laundry Timer
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Flexible Laundry Helper NEW

Set a timer, a reminder, or add it to your calendar — whichever works best for how your brain works. Pairs perfectly with a Smart Tag stuck to your washing machine.

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📱 Reminders · Calendar

Download Flexible Laundry Helper
💊 Medicine
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Meds Tracker

Tap a Smart Tag on your pill bottle to log your dose or request the next reminder.

📱 Health · Reminders

Download Meds Tracker
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MedLog NEW

Track every medication, dose, and time — and set custom reminders. Great for people on multiple meds or complex schedules. Pair with a Smart Tag on your pill organizer for instant one-tap logging.

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📱 Notes · Reminders

Download MedLog
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Headache Tracker NEW

Log when a headache hits, how bad it was, and what you were doing. Finally have actual data to bring to your doctor — instead of "I don't know, a lot I guess?"

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📱 Numbers

Download Headache Tracker
💪 Workout Mode
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Start a Workout + Tell Your AI Buddy

Pick a workout from your list and this Shortcut will start it for you and send a message to your Shelpful AI buddy so it can cheer you on and follow up later. Customize the list with the workouts you actually do—Pilates, hot yoga, lifting, walks, whatever fits your life.

📱 Workout · Shelpful

Download Workout Shortcut
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Reps Tracker NEW

Track your reps and sets during a workout — and try to beat your score from last time. A little gamification for the days motivation is barely there. Tap your workout Smart Tag to start.

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📱 Health

Download Reps Tracker
💧 Water Break
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Log Water Intake NEW

Tap your water break Smart Tag to log your intake directly to Apple Health. Choose from preset amounts so it's fast — no typing, no thinking, no forgetting you even did it.

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📱 Health

Download Log Water
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Random Hydration Nudges NEW

Schedule random reminders throughout your day. Your brain tunes out predictable alerts — but a nudge at a random time? That one lands. Great for water breaks, stretch breaks, or anything you keep forgetting.

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📱 Reminders

Download Random Reminders
🐾 Pet Care
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I Fed the Dog (Text Confirmation)

Never double-feed or forget again. One tap sends a text to you or someone else that the dog has been fed. Perfect for multi-human households and chaotic mornings.

📱 Messages

Download Dog Feeding Text
🧹 Clean Up Quickie
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25-Min Cleaning Sprint NEW

The Pomodoro method, but for cleaning. Set a 25-minute timer, go hard, then stop — guilt-free. The trick that makes cleaning feel finite instead of endless. Tap a Smart Tag in your living room or kitchen to start.

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📱 Clock

Download Cleaning Sprint Timer
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Mega-Remind: Take Out the Trash

Pings you every 9 minutes until you confirm the trash is done. No snoozing, no forgetting. For when the regular trash reminder has officially failed you one too many times.

📱 Shelpful · Reminders

Download Mega-Remind: Trash
🌙 Bedtime Wind-Down
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Evening Wind Down

Start your nighttime routine by tapping a Smart Tag or connecting to a speaker. Dim lights, open apps, play a playlist.

📱 Home · Music · Clock

Download Wind Down
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Bedtime™ NEW

Set your sleep and wake times, activate Do Not Disturb, and wind down on autopilot. Tap your bedside Smart Tag and let the routine run itself — no willpower required.

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📱 Clock · Health · Focus

Download Bedtime™
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Sleep Cycle Calculator NEW

Enter your wake time and get the optimal bedtimes based on 90-minute sleep cycles. No more waking up in the middle of deep sleep feeling like a zombie.

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📱 Clock

Download Sleep Cycle Calculator
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SleepMode NEW

One tap activates Do Not Disturb, sets a custom alarm, and plays soothing sleep sounds. Pair with your bedtime Smart Tag for a zero-effort wind-down trigger every single night.

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📱 Clock · Music · Focus

Download SleepMode
🔓 Open-Ended
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Quick Note Capture NEW

Voice memo meets sticky note. Speak it, type it, or snap a photo — this shortcut drops it into Notes instantly. Trigger it with a Smart Tag on your desk, nightstand, or wherever thoughts tend to strike.

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📱 Notes · Microphone

Download Quick Note Capture
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Focus Mode Timer NEW

Turn on Focus mode for a set amount of time, then have it automatically turn off. No forgetting it's on, no manual toggling. Tap any Smart Tag on any surface you want to be your "focus zone."

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📱 Focus

Download Focus Mode Timer
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All-in-One Health Check-In NEW

One shortcut to log almost anything: weight, water, steps, heart rate, sleep, meds, and more. The all-in-one health check-in for people who want to track things without juggling 12 different apps.

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📱 Health

Download Health Check-In
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Deep Work Pomodoro NEW

Work mode: activated. This Pomodoro timer automatically plays focus music and manages your breaks so your brain doesn't fry. Perfect for deep work sessions — tap your desk Smart Tag and go.

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📱 Music · Clock

Download Deep Work Pomodoro
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Shelpful Mega-Remind

The persistent nudge for things that really can't be forgotten. Works great as a Siri command — "Hey Siri, stalk me" — or trigger it at a set time, when you arrive home, or via a Smart Tag. It'll keep going until you actually deal with it.

📱 Shelpful

Download Shelpful Mega-Remind
✨ Works Without a Smart Tag

Trigger with Siri, a scheduled automation, or the iOS Share Sheet.

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Celebrate Steps

Pulls your daily step count from Apple Health and sends it to Shelpful (or anyone you choose). Trigger with Siri: "Hey Siri, celebrate steps."

📱 Health · Shelpful

Download Celebrate Steps
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Read Aloud

Highlight text → Share → Run Shortcut → instantly turn it into audio so you can listen instead of read.

📱 Share Sheet (works in any app)

Download Read Aloud
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Share Your Availability

Stop writing messy scheduling texts. This Shortcut checks your calendar, lets you pick a date, and drafts a clean message with your open time windows to send via text or email in two taps.

📱 Calendar · Messages

Download Availability Sender
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Screenshot Roulette

Your phone picks a random screenshot from the last week, shows it, then asks: what do you want to do with it? Options like: add to Inspo, add to Work, Snooze, or Delete. (AKA: the gentle screenshot clean-up game your brain will actually tolerate.)

Automation ideas: run it when you open Instagram (before you scroll), at a set time each day (like 8:30pm), or via a Smart Tag on your couch/bedside table for a "one screenshot and done" ritual.

📱 Photos

Download Screenshot Roulette
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Braindump to Shelpful AI Task Manager

Say whatever's on your mind and get it out of your head fast. This Shortcut lets you speak a thought, task, question, or request, then sends it straight to your Shelpful AI task manager to organize, remember, and follow up.

Automation ideas: set it to run every day at 9am so it simply asks, "What do you want to tell Shelpful?" and you just start talking. No buttons. No tapping. You don't even have to pick up your phone. You can also trigger it with Siri or a Smart Tag on your desk, nightstand, or car.

📱 Microphone · Shelpful

Download Braindump Shortcut

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The “little” things are HARD for ADHD minds

my iPhone is such a happy place for me right now. Everyday, small stuff feels lighter because of 2 factors:

  • I have a shelpful AI buddy (i named him task daddy) that nudges me to show up for the bare minimum. Wash one dish, take 3 steps outside. Open the damn browser and that’s it. It’s like a to-do list that talks back, like a 24/7 habit coach.

  • I’ve honed the free iPhone app from Apple: Shortcuts so that things JUST HAPPEN on my phone. Apps open, playlists start, doors lock, reminders are set. Just by me moving through the world.

    These 2 things together are like and AI-Automation Peanut Butter & Jelly Sando. Like:

    • When I pull into this parking lot, the app opens that I need, it starts a playlist, it pings my AI buddy that I just picked up my kid and to send me ideas for dinner.

    • When I tapped the sticker on my dog food, it would text my husband so my dog didn’t get fed twice.