Today’s Note Link

Stones1853

Hi There,

I’m really sorry if this has been asked in another thread. However, I can’t get the following link in the actual Notes app to work: shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Today%E2%80%99s%20Note

If anyone could simply cut and paste it rather than a screenshot, it would be much appreciated as I’m in the UK and can’t see any of the pictures.

Many thanks

trxonspeed

Stones1853 i copied and pasted the url to notes and tried it, it works fine. That makes me think that the problem is with your shortcut’s name. My shortcut is called ”Open Today’s Note”. You may have accidently added a space in the name of the shortcut. Or edited the name in some other way by accident.

Stones1853

trxonspeed Many thanks for your reply. All of my shortcuts just seem to go to the current month and not to yesterday’s, today’s, tomorrow’s etc note. I haven’t changed anything and have been using the system for over a year, and they’ve all just stopped working for some reason.

if you’ve got any other ideas or where I can re-download the shortcuts (if you think that may work), that would be great.

Once again, many thanks 👍

CatarinaDK

This Is the original Todays note url:
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Today%20’s%20Note

trxonspeed

Stones1853 Since the latest IOS update there is a problem with the function Find note in shortcuts. The solution is to edit the shortcut and replacing Find note with Open note. Here are links to working shortcuts:
Open Today's Note

Open Yesterday's Note

Open Tomorrow's Note

Open Current Month

The thing is, you need to edit your shortcuts to look lite this, you cant replace your shortcuts with new ones. You would have to change all your links in every note if you swap them.
Basically you format the date to be dd MMMM. Then you use the function Open note, press and hold where it says Note and insert Formatted date. With tomorrow and yesterday you need to adjust the date. With current month you need to format date to only display the month name, then put it inside a text box next to a ✱.

MikeH_BayState

I came to a different conclusion and solution for this error and wanted to share my experience in case it helps. If it sends anyone on a wild goose chase, my apologies up front.

My Shortcut Logic was good.
The Mac OS error I encountered was "Could not find the shortcut “Open Today’s Note.”
When I opened the Shortcuts app on my Mac, there it was… Open Today's Note.
When I played the Shortcut from that app, it actually opened the right Note.
The problem wasn't in the logic of the shortcut (e.g., 'Find Note' vs. 'Open Note').

The Link to the Shortcut is the issue.
Back in a #ForeverNote, I edited the link to "Today" and saw the special characters representing spaces and the apostrophe or right single quote in the Shortcut name (Open Today**'s** Note = Open%20Today**%E2%80%99**s%20Note)
URL encoding substitutes ACII characters for spaces, puncutation, etc.
The trouble seems to be that different character mappings are applied and used in different places.

%27: This is the standard URL-encoded ASCII character for a basic single quote or apostrophe.
%E2%80%99: This is the UTF-8 hexadecimal sequence for a typographer's "smart" apostrophe or right single quotation mark (’).

The shortcuts I had in Notes all used the UTF-8 character mapping …%E2%80%99

Mac OS now seems to want the standard URL ASCII encoding … %27

The Fix(es) - you have a choice

Assuming your Shortcut, Open Today's Note, works independently of any links to it…

You can leave it as is and globally update the links to it from:
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Today**%E2%80%99s**%20Note
to
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Today**%27**s%20Note
You can take the extra steps of renaming your Shortcut to remove the apostrophe AND update the link globally.
Open Today's Note becomes Open Todays Note

The link update globally looks like …
Before: shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Today**%E2%80%99s**%20Note
After: shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Todays%20Note