In episode 29 of Automators we got to talk to Adam Tow - creator of awesome automations. I met Adam at the Automators WWDC meet up this year and he demoed some of his wonderful shortcuts for me. I've seen them before and even tried them out, but once I saw Adam demoing them David and I knew we had to get him on the show to share how this all works!

Adam walked us through a few of his amazing automations:

• MsgFiler: A way to file messages in Mail extremely quickly. I've been trying this since we recorded and I'm sold, I'll admit I love using the keyboard and tend not to reach for the mouse unless I have to but this is a great utility!
• Photo Magic: Adam has an amazing setup whereby photos taken on his DSLR end up automatically sent to him via iMessage, added to Photos, uploaded to Google Photos, oh, and the RAW photos are uploaded to Amazon too. Sounds crazy? There's a bunch of very good reasons for this!
• The Dark Dungeon Text Adventure: Did you know you can play a text adventure game in Shortcuts? Or have it translated into (almost) any language? Adam made it easy!

For more details you'll have to listen to the show.

As a note, in the show I said I thought you could get a public link to a Dropbox folder through Shortcuts. You can get links to files, but for some reason links to folders no longer works - this is a shame, but we can hope that Dropbox offer this as a parameterised Shortcut in iOS 13.

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Episode 29: The Dark Dungeon with Adam Tow