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9 Genius Apple Shortcuts to Simplify Your Life
Tracking expenses to increase your productivity is all just one click away.
The average person unlocks their phone 96 times a day. Most of those taps? Repetitive, forgettable tasks that quietly eat into your focus and energy. Apple Shortcuts changes all of that by providing a no-code automation setup that lets you chain together actions — from tracking expenses to generating QR codes to reducing your social media distraction. Yet most people have never opened the app.
In this article, I will share 10 shortcuts that have genuinely changed how I manage my day. Each one is practical, easy to set up, and designed around a real problem. I’ll walk you through exactly how to build each one from scratch.
I’ll also share some pro tips and my personal setup — the exact shortcuts I run every day, and how they’re organised, that helped me improve my productivity and reduce distractions.
Let’s start with the one that attracted me to explore the shortcut app even more.
1. Expense Tracker
One of my personal favourites and most used shortcuts. It helps you log any expense in under 10 seconds — amount, category, and payment method — and it lands automatically in your Notion database. No…
