Automate Your Instagram Captions with This Apple Shortcut

Edited with Serendipitous - Studio Collection

Most people have no idea what the Shortcuts app can actually do.
Can you say possibilities?

Anyhow…Since my return to the insta, I’ve been using this shortcut a automation to draft my captions.
(Notice I said draft, not write.)

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Here’s how it works:

• tap the shortcut ‘insta caption’.

• dictation opens.

• I ramble my caption idea

• ChatGPT drafts a version and drops it into the notes App. (dated, and ready to make mine)

It’s shockingly easy.

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Part One - InstaCaption in Action

In the demo, I spoke this (very rough) caption idea aloud:

I want to keep talking about the art of microfilms and how it’s easier than we think. We’ve made it feel hard, but we forget photography felt hard once too… and really, we’re just hitting record instead of the shutter.

Moment later, the draft opened in my Notes app:

At some point, photography felt confusing too. Settings, light, composition… and now look at you. Same goes for making films. It’s not that hard once you rethink what it is. Instead of clicking the shutter, you hit record. Instead of chasing motion, you let it unfold in front of the frame. That’s the shift. That’s the start.
(also it included my spacing… which I love)

The bones are there. It’s a draft…and a total time saver.

I go in and reshape it…make it more me. But it gets me out of my head and into action.
So good.

Part Two: The Setup

Here’s what You Need to Make this Work

☐ Mac, iPhone or iPad

☐ Apple’s built-in Shortcuts app (it’s already on your device)

☐ The ChatGPT app… desktop and/or mobile

☐ Apple Notes, with a new folder for your captions

Once you click the shortcut link it will prompt you to open shortcuts. Right-click or tap and hold to select EDIT and refine the following.

☐ the prompt ChatGPT uses

☐ select your Notes folder of choice.

☐ If you wanna be extra (like me) add it as a widget to your desktop and/or an icon to your phone and/or iPad.

This takes a few minutes. But after that… it’s a tap-and-go caption creator.

And the first time you run it, you’ll just need to allow a few permissions: mic, Notes, that sort of thing.

Then it’s all yours.

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Share it with a Friend

If this helped, feel free to send it to a friend.

Please share the link to this post…not the direct shortcut. That way they can see how to use it, edit it, and make it their own.

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Thanks so much for watching and reading.

Let me know if you want more little automations like this…I’ve got some good one.

Til next time…
xx
Kim

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