#Countdown timer plus mac update
#Countdown timer plus mac download

One more thing I wanted was to have a single shortcut that would work either on my phone or my Mac.

#Countdown timer plus mac download

If you’d like to download the completed shortcut, you can find it on Routine Hub.įYI, RoutineHub doesn’t show Mac as on OS option yet, so the metadata is a little weird. I added an if statement to only pass the minutes if it’s under 60, and to do the whole calculation if it’s 60 or more. The previously entered hours wouldn’t be zeroed out. Taking the hours and the minutes you get 2 hours and 20 minutes and then both of those can be passed to a list which is then passed to the AppleScript.įinally, there was some weirdness with this logic if it was less than 60 minutes. For instance, if you add 140 minutes to midnight, you get 2:20 AM. It then outputs hours and minutes as separate values. Basically, the shortcut sets the time to midnight (00:00) and then adds the minutes the user inputs.

#Countdown timer plus mac update

I can’t find the original source, but I’ll update this post if I find it.

Luckily, I’d seen a way to convert minutes to hours and minutes in Shortcuts. If the AppleScript tries to send 60 or more to the minute field, the value is rejected and the timer just runs with the previous time set. The Menubar Countdown app doesn’t allow more than 59 minutes in the minute field (you’re expected to use the hour field). It worked beautifully… until I used 60 or more minutes. I created a quick shortcut that asked for a number of minutes and then ran the AppleScript that would start the timer. Shortcuts on MacOS supports AppleScript so it’s able to control the Menubar Countdown app. Tell application 'Menubar Countdown' set hours to 0 set minutes to 10 set seconds to 0 start timer end tell It supports Monterey and it can be controlled by AppleScript. Like the name implies, it’s a Mac app that places a countdown in your menu bar. I pivoted a bit and started searching for apps that could be controlled via the command line or AppleScript. I came to the conclusion there wasn’t a Mac timer app that integrated with Shortcuts. There are plenty that allowed Shortcuts to start or stop existing timers, but none of them allowed Shortcuts to create a new timer based on an provided variable.

Since I have an M1 Mac, I looked for iPad and iPhone timer apps next. I searched for awhile and couldn’t find any Mac timer apps that mentioned Shortcuts. There’s no built in timer app on MacOS, so the first step was to find a Mac app with shortcut integration. Finding the right appīy default, if you ask Siri to start a timer on a Mac, it’ll create a reminder instead. A Redditor in r/shortcuts asked if there was a way to set a timer with Shortcuts on a Mac. The most exciting thing is that MacOS now supports Shortcuts.