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iOS Shortcuts for SoloMD

Three ready-to-build Shortcuts that send notes from your iPhone or iPad to the SoloMD desktop app on your laptop, over your local Wi-Fi — no cloud account, no third-party server, no signed extension. v2.4 ships the receiver; this page is the sender.

Status: hand-build recipes today. iCloud share links with QR codes will appear here once Apple's signed-shortcut review completes (the URLs you'd paste below get reviewed for URL-scheme misuse). The hand-build path is permanent and never breaks; the iCloud links are an optional convenience layer.

Before you start (one-time setup)

  1. Open SoloMD on your Mac/Windows/Linux.
  2. Go to Settings → Capture endpoint.
  3. Toggle Enable on. Tick Allow LAN access.
  4. Copy the bearer token. Note your computer's LAN IP (System Settings → Network on macOS).
  5. Make sure your phone is on the same Wi-Fi.

That's the entire pairing. The token never leaves your devices — it's stored once in the Shortcut and reused on every run.

Recipe 1 — Quick capture

Type a thought, hit Run, it lands in your SoloMD inbox. Add to the Share Sheet so highlighted text from any app (Safari, Mail, Messages) triggers a one-tap save.

  1. Ask for Input — Text, prompt Capture to inbox.
  2. Get Contents of URL
    • URL: http://YOUR-LAN-IP:7777/capture
    • Method: POST
    • Headers: Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN and Content-Type: application/json
    • Request body (JSON):
      • body → Provided Input
      • title → Quick capture <Current Date>
      • inbox → true
  3. Show Notification on success / failure.

Recipe 2 — Append to today's daily note

Avoids accumulating a new file per thought. Uses v2.4's new append_path mode — if today's daily note doesn't exist, the endpoint creates it; otherwise it appends with a leading newline.

  1. Ask for Input.
  2. Format Date as yyyy-MM-dd.
  3. Get Contents of URL with body:
    • body → \n- {Provided Input}
    • append_path → daily/{formatted-date}.md

Recipe 3 — Clip a Safari URL via Share Sheet

Highlight nothing — just hit Share → SoloMD: Clip URL on a Safari page. iOS extracts the article body, converts to markdown, prepends YAML front matter, and POSTs to the inbox.

  1. Get Contents of Web Page (input: URL).
  2. Make Rich Text from HTML.
  3. Make Markdown from Rich Text.
  4. Get Details of Web Page for URL + title.
  5. Build a Text action with the YAML front matter + markdown body.
  6. Get Contents of URL with that text as body.

For technical pages with code blocks, the desktop browser web clipper extension gives a much cleaner conversion (uses Mozilla Readability + turndown). The iOS path is best for blog posts, news, recipes.

Privacy

Every Shortcut talks to the URL you typed and only that URL — there is no third-party server, no telemetry, no Apple-side relay. The token authorises a single SoloMD desktop instance on your LAN. Anyone on the same LAN who guesses the token (it's 32 hex chars) could write to your workspace; rotate the token in Settings → Capture endpoint if you ever share Wi-Fi with people you don't trust.

Full protocol: /security § capture.