Jason Liu 用 dots + Shortcuts 打造 iOS 截图助手

I built appshots for iOS, powered by dots + shortcuts. It has been life changing.

I spend hours scrolling, reading and bookmarking things, then forget all of them. Now, I just say “Hey Siri, run dots” and keep going. Siri takes a screenshot and sends it to dots, which handles everything in the background. It finds the shoes the woman in the reel was wearing, signs up for a free gym class from an ad I saw, orders the book mentioned in the podcast, saves the video referenced in the x post to watch later, and more.

dots reads the screenshot, and listens to my voice notes. Uses its own browser, to look up stuff: youtube videos, x posts on its computer. For walled apps like Instagram, I gave dots its own account, and it has been able to find the source post and from there find the products/places I am asking it to further research more accurately.

Everything is saved to a ChatGPT Site and Google Doc, so I can look back anytime. An iOS shortcut can’t talk to dots directly. so it emails the screenshot to an inbox that dots checks regularly.

The accuracy has been great. It finds exactly the right thing every time. It also is a much better solution than trying to use any bookmark tools within an app or a browser.

Next, it would be so cool to have friends’ dots talking to each other, exchanging notes and building a shared feed.