Kieran Hunt

I have a simple approach to note taking. Every day I make a new Apple Note. The note is titled the current date. ISO 8601 of course. Today’s note is titled 2025-02-23.

I wanted Apple Shortcuts to automate this. The idea was fairly simple:

• If today’s note doesn’t exist, create it and then open it.
• If it does exist, open it.

It turns out that Shortcuts is just smart enough to make that happen:

I think that counts as an idempotent (archive) Apple Shortcut… 🤓 And happily it works on both MacOS and iOS.

Find it @ Open today’s Apple Note on Apple Shortcuts.