Time Travel: 2014

Although submitting a vulnerability is procedurally easy.

However, after submitting two or three submissions, Lin Hui still felt a bit boring.

Is there no way to get tens of millions of dollars in one go?

Lin Hui's state of mind at this moment was a bit like the moment he just finished the college entrance examination.

Just want to make money.

But at that time, Lin Hui was thinking about how to make millions of dollars.

And now Lin Hui is thinking about how to make tens of millions of dollars at once?

At that time, I was looking for millions of business opportunities.

Lin Hui thought of the mobile phone in his previous life.

At this time, there is a business opportunity of tens of millions of dollars.

Lin Hui still unconsciously thought of the mobile phone in his previous life.

The process of rummaging through your phone.

Lin Hui was attracted by a system built-in application on his mobile phone.

The name of this application is:

——Shortcut commands.

It was also called a shortcut for a while.

The app itself has little functionality.

But users can use the action modules it provides in the application to form various tools like building blocks to meet their own needs.

For example, users can make a shortcut command to capture the cover of certain videos;

You can add new words you encounter while reading to the vocabulary library you are memorizing;

Can convert videos into GIF;

You can also convert GIF to video in reverse;

You can use it to recognize pictures from pictures;

You can use it to identify QR codes in mobile phone screenshots...

Can……

As mentioned above, the shortcut software is characterized by functional diversity.

But functional versatility is just one of several features of shortcuts.

Lin Hui believes that the biggest feature of the Shortcut Command software is its efficiency that surpasses similar iOS software at the same time.

With the help of the shortcut software, Apple phone users can now complete operations that originally required many steps to complete in only a very limited number of steps.

For example, under normal circumstances, if a user wants to realize the simple function of taking a screenshot of web page content and then sharing it, at least a lot of steps are required:

Take a screenshot → Open the photo album → Select the screenshot just now → Circle the part that the user thinks is worth sharing → Save to the photo album → Share with friends → Delete the screenshot

(ps:...Don't use the current situation as a substitute.

It is true that screenshots taken from previous Apple phones cannot be edited directly, nor can they be shared directly)

Is it troublesome to follow the traditional operation method?

But with the Shortcuts app, everything is different.

Use pre-edited actions in shortcut commands.

When users want to quickly share the content on the webpage with friends, they only need to take a screenshot, and then click the [Share Screenshot Content] tool in the shortcut command.

At this time, the custom tool [Share Screenshot Content] will automatically obtain the picture you just captured.

Then directly enter the picture editing mode through the Aviary SDK built into the shortcut APP.

After editing, the iOS built-in sharing options will automatically pop up.

After the user finishes sharing, the custom tool [Share Screenshot Content] will also automatically delete the screenshot just now.

The same thing is about sharing web page screenshots with friends, with the help of shortcut command software.

The actual operation performed by the user is as follows:

Take a screenshot → Click [Share screenshot content] in the shortcut app → (User circles the part that is worth sharing) → (Share with friends)

Normally, seven steps of operation are required, but with the help of shortcut commands, this software can now be completed in only four steps.

In reality, fewer steps may be required.

If the user has a fixed sharing partner.

By editing the corresponding sharing tool, set the sharing to a specific contact of a specific application in advance.

In this way, only three steps are needed in the actual sharing process.

And if all the user needs is to take a screenshot and share it with fixed contacts.

No need to edit the picture.

Then with the help of shortcut commands, the actual operations required by the software user are reduced to two steps.

It’s just a few steps missing. Is it worth the hype?

Of course it’s worth it!

It's just a few missing steps, but it's a great victory.

The steps can be reduced because the shortcut software transforms a process that originally required coordination in many different software into a one-stop process.

When using shortcuts to share web page screenshots.

When users share, whether it is two steps, three steps or four steps, all steps are actually performed in one software with shortcuts.

No need to jump between various software.

If you need to jump between various software.

Then the user's attention is likely to be attracted by other software during the actual sharing process.

In short, one-stop processing seems to be just missing a few steps.

In fact, user efficiency is greatly improved.

Sharing screenshots of web content is just one example.

In fact, with the help of shortcuts, this software can improve the efficiency of many tasks or processes.

At the same time, with the help of the shortcut command software.

Some software, such as long image stitching, short video image rotation, and animated image conversion to short video, are likely to be retired in place.

In addition, there are many functional built-in actions in the shortcut command software that are unique to productivity applications.

For example, compress the file, make the result into a PDF, save the content to iCloud, etc.

This software also has many unique features for some third-party application shortcuts...

In short, the shortcut command software is very powerful.

However, all this is defined at this point in time in 2014.

It actually doesn’t make much sense to talk about value apart from the times.

Things that seem valuable now will be worthless in a few years.

But it doesn't matter, as long as this software is valuable to Lin Hui at this time, it is enough.

Although the shortcut command software can achieve many functions.

But what Lin Hui is concerned about is not the functionality of this software.

Lin Hui is concerned about the shortcut command software itself.

Although the shortcut command software appeared in the next few years as a built-in application of the Apple mobile phone system.

But it wasn't originally developed by Apple.

The original name of the software "Shortcut Commands" was not called "Shortcut Commands" either.

Instead, it’s called “workflow”, which literally translates to “workflow.”

However, among the many names of this software, Lin Hui still likes the name shortcut command the most.

Other explanations are more or less vague.

The software Past Life Shortcuts was developed by Ari Weinstein and others at the end of 2014.

According to the normal timeline, the Shortcut Command software only landed on the Apple App Store in December 2014.

When it first landed in the Apple App Store, the Quick Commands software appeared as a paid app.

Lin Hui remembered that it still costs 18 yuan to download in China.

Although Quick Command is a paid software, it does not affect the spread of this software.