Today, Greg Pierce posted a tweet about the new #ShotOniPhone Challenge:
My favorite part of this #ShotOniPhone contest announcement is the specification of a file naming convention.
I bet less than 0.1% of iPhone owners know how to save a photo as a file, rename it, and attach the renamed version to an email.https://t.co/1DOwvaOjvh pic.twitter.com/7C0Yh5xxlz
— Greg Pierce (@agiletortoise) January 24, 2019
Rene Ritchie followed up with this tweet:
— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) January 24, 2019
And my reply:
#ShotOniPhone #RenamedViaShortcuts
— Tim Nahumck (@nahumck) January 24, 2019
When I first saw Rene’s tweet, I knew he was being snarky. However, my first thought went to Shortcuts when I saw it (hence my tweet). Renaming of files on iOS is a perfect use case of Shortcuts. But rather than stop at just simply renaming a file, it’s possible to submit the entry all with a couple of taps on iOS. And now that I’ve said that you can do it with Shortcuts, I figured I should make one if I’m going to put out the thought. So, with a little bit of work, I created the #ShotOniPhone shortcut.
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