On Wasting Time With Apple Shortcuts
Today, I spent far too much time fucking with Apple Shortcuts just to do something simple: append the current date and time to a specific Bear note on iPadOS.
After all the time I spent trying, I still didn’t have a working shortcut. Even with help from Claude.
For comparison, I had created the exact same behavior on my Mac using a shell script and Keyboard Maestro. It took about 15 minutes.
Here’s the timestamp Apple Shortcuts and I argued over:
#### 02 February 2026 07:03 PM
This is why I will never be iPad-first.