Siri, Shortcuts, and Action Button

Pinwork supports Apple automation surfaces for quick capture, navigation, and task completion.

These include Siri, Shortcuts, App Shortcuts, App Intents, and Action Button setups that run a Pinwork shortcut or control.

Siri phrases

Pinwork registers App Shortcuts for:

Quick Add
Show Today
Show Inbox
Show Upcoming

Siri phrases for Quick Add include:

Add a task in Pinwork
New task in Pinwork
Capture in Pinwork
Quick add in Pinwork
Add to Pinwork

Siri invocation phrases can be localized. They identify and start the Pinwork shortcut, but they do not change how the title supplied to Quick Add is handled.

Quick Add from Shortcuts

The Quick Add App Intent accepts a title and queues a task creation request. The main app later runs that title through Pinwork’s natural-language parser. Dates, tags, project syntax, recurrence, estimates, and calendar commands can be applied just like a pinwork://quickadd capture.

Pinwork’s metadata parser currently uses English grammar on the capture paths that explicitly support parsing. Localized Siri phrases do not enable localized metadata parsing.

The shortcut records the current date, calendar, time zone, and default Quick Add destination when you invoke it. A parsed When date takes precedence. If the sentence does not include a When date, Pinwork uses the captured Inbox, Today, or Tomorrow destination.

Complete Task from Shortcuts

The Complete Task App Intent lets Shortcuts complete a task without opening the main app.

It uses Pinwork’s task picker. The picker can suggest incomplete tasks from the widget snapshot or the broader intent task index.

Shortcuts can complete tasks, but reopening a completed task is handled through the app UI, widgets, Watch, deep links, or AppleScript.

Show Today, Show Inbox, and Show Upcoming open Pinwork and store the requested destination.

The main app consumes that destination when it launches or returns to foreground. Pending navigation targets expire quickly if the app does not consume them.

Navigation shortcuts can be ignored while first-run navigation is locked.

Action Button

On supported iPhone models, configure the Action Button in system settings to run a Shortcut or supported control.

Use Pinwork’s App Shortcuts or Control widgets when you want the Action Button to open Quick Add, Today, Inbox, or Upcoming.

Access checks

Quick Add and Complete Task through App Intents require shared Pro access.

If access is missing or interrupted, Pinwork asks you to open the app to restore access.

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