Integrate ChatGPT with Apple Shortcuts: A Game-Changing Shortcut by Federico Viticci

Do you use Apple devices and wish you could seamlessly integrate ChatGPT with all your shortcuts across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Federico Viticci, the literal sage of Shortcuts over at MacStories, has created a shortcut that integrates with the ChatGPT API, allowing you to interact with ChatGPT within a shortcut on any of your Apple devices.

To get started, head over to the MacStories article where Federico explains the entire process. Then, create an account on platform.openai.com and set up billing, which is separate from the $20/month ChatGPT Plus plan. You will need to set up billing since it uses the API rather than just straight ChatGPT.

After setting up your payment method, go to API keys, create a new secret key, and use it to set up the Shortcut on your Apple devices. You can place the Shortcut on your home screen for easy access. When you tap the Shortcut, it will run ChatGPT and automatically show you a prompt in which you can type anything you would normally put into ChatGPT.

For example, you could ask it to write a limerick about the iPhone 12 camera. The Shortcut even allows you to continue the conversation, and you can keep typing prompts without ever leaving Shortcuts. If you're worried about the cost of using the API billing, you can set a maximum spend limit in the OpenAI platform. After using it dozens of times in one day, it cost a total of 1 cent.

One of the ways you can use AI more is by taking articles you might be talking about on a podcast and automatically generating titles and descriptions. With the ChatGPT Shortcut, you can integrate it into the Shortcut workflow you're already using for your show notes and generate those titles and descriptions automatically.

For example, you could use a shortcut that takes a long string of text, either copied to the clipboard or via the share sheet, and get the titles from those Safari articles. The Shortcut even allows you to choose who your co-host is and adjusts the contact information accordingly. It runs several shortcuts within this shortcut, such as for sponsors, where you can choose the sponsors for that week, and it will automatically pull in the call-to-action verbiage.

By adding a couple of steps using the ChatGPT Shortcut, you can take the same headlines you were already formatting and have ChatGPT give you recommendations for titles and descriptions. You can select everything in an Apple Note where you've kept all the links that you're going to talk about on the show and tap the share sheet. The Shortcut will format all the URLs, article titles, and links into HTML and then prompt you to run ChatGPT in the background to generate the episode description and title.

Once you've completed the prompts, the Shortcut will format all the show notes, including the title and episode description generated by ChatGPT, plus your co-host and all the links formatted in HTML. The entire show notes are complete and ready to go! This is incredibly powerful, and now you can have that kind of AI power in any Shortcut that you create.

The ChatGPT Shortcut syncs to all your Apple devices, so you can run it on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Since ChatGPT doesn't have an app yet for mobile devices, you can use the web shortcut from the home screen of your devices or even in the menu on your Mac, and now you have ChatGPT everywhere.

Thank you, Federico Viticci, for your incredible work on this Shortcut. What an amazing resource, and he's given it away totally for free! Don't forget to check out his article on macstories.net to get the shortcut, and let us know how you would be using it in your Shortcut.