Spotlight on Mac, iPad, and iPhone is great. It’s useful for more than just basic search & web search, though.
Quickly Open Spotlight:
cmd + spacebar or the ‘search’ button on your phone home screen
Quick Commands
Launching Apps
Maps
Calendar Entries
Go to the store at 3pm
Photo Search
photos of ___
Calculations & Conversions
225 lbs in kg
Contact Actions
Jim
… followed by tapping on the action to take (e.g. message)
Quick Settings Change
WiFi
… although this isn’t super helpful
Spotlight > Shortcuts
Spotlight’s biggest superpower is the ability to call up Shortcuts App shortcuts to do whatever you can think of. Here’s a incomplete list of those I built/use frequently.
New Task
Receives text. Attempts to parse a date. Pushes the text (& optionally, date) to my Notion “Tasks” database Task Manager using a Google Apps Script Web App as an intermediary.
Track PDW Thing
Shoots out to a boatload of shortcuts that ultimately write to the PDW.
Source
- Experimentation