It's going to find this note with the exact name. Then I'm going to click here, select Magic Variable and select the found notes. I'm going to Control Click, or two-finger click on this, select Magic Variable, and select to provide input. It will try to append a note that is here to another note. Now the Append command will actually do some odd things here. So this will find that one note and then we want to append to Note. Over here in the Notes App I already created Verbal Notes. All Notes with Name Containing and let's create a special note that we'll use for this. What we want to do is find All Notes and add a Filter. So, let's go and finish this off with a search for note. When you trigger this with Siri this will not prompt you for text on the screen that you type with your keyboard. So, how do you change this to make it so that it accepts voice input not typing input? Well, the answer is you don't have to change anything at all. We want to have Siri prompt us so we can speak the text. Now if I run this it's going to prompt me to type something which is not what we want to do. I can ask for text with prompt like that. So I'm going to search for Ask over here and there's Ask For Input. Now what I want to do is I want to ask for input. Something Siri can't confuse with anything else. So I could do something like Take a Note but actually Siri already responds to that.

It's very important to choose your name wisely if you plan to use the shortcut with Siri because you trigger the shortcut using the exact name. Now the first thing I want to do is I want to name the shortcut. The same actions you use to accept typed input can be used to accept voice input if triggered by Siri. The trick is that there is nothing special you need to do. Actually Shortcuts works very well like this but it's not obvious how to do this especially if you're on a Mac. That prompted some people to ask me if there was a way you could use your voice to provide that data rather than having to type it.

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Let me show you how you can use Shortcuts with your voice to provide input. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Creating Shortcuts That Accept Voice Input at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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