Fingertips
Shortcuts
Five Shortcuts built on the same App Intents the app uses itself. Free, signed, and yours to pull apart.
The one worth looking at first is Find a Snippet. Its search action hands back real snippets that the next action consumes, which is the difference between an app that is scriptable and an app with a share sheet. Swap the last action and you have built something else.
You need Fingertips installed on the device you run them on. These are shortcuts into the app, not a copy of it.
The first time you run each one, iOS or macOS asks "Allow <name> to run actions from Fingertips?". That is the system doing its job for any app's actions, once per shortcut. Nothing here asks for a permission of its own.
The seven
Find a Snippet
Ask for Input → Search Snippets → Choose from List → Copy Snippet
Type a word, pick from what matches, and it is on your clipboard. The whole library from a Shortcut, without opening the app.
Copy My Signature
Search Snippets → Get Item from List → Copy Snippet
One snippet, no prompt, for the Action button or Back Tap. It searches for the
word signature and copies the best match.
Edit that word after importing - it is a plain text field in the
first action, and it is the whole point of the shortcut. A search term is used
rather than a fixed snippet because a snippet's identifier belongs to the library
it came from and would mean nothing in yours.
Copy My Email Address
Search Snippets → Get Item from List → Copy Snippet
The same shape, searching for email, for a hardware button.
Worth knowing before you run it: a signature block usually contains an
email address, so on a real library the word email often finds the
signature first. Change the search term to something only the snippet you want
has - the title works best, because a title match outranks a body match.
Save to Fingertips
Share sheet → Save to Fingertips
An Action Extension, so it appears in the share sheet of every app. Select text anywhere, share, and it is in your library.
Save Clipboard to Fingertips
Get Clipboard → Save to Fingertips
Whatever you just copied becomes a snippet. Built for a Back Tap or a keyboard trigger. The clipboard is read by Shortcuts rather than by the app, so this one runs on the Mac too.
Show a Snippet as a QR CodeiPhone and iPad
Ask for Input → Search Snippets → Choose from List → Show Snippet
The same four actions as Find a Snippet with the last one swapped, which is the clearest demonstration that this app is scriptable rather than just share-sheet deep. It puts the snippet on screen as a QR code, which is the only way to get one onto a device that does not have Fingertips on it: a wifi password across a desk, a reference number at a counter, an IBAN a colleague photographs.
Search FingertipsiPhone and iPad only
Search Fingertips
One action, no parameters, for the Action button or a Back Tap. It opens the app with the keyboard up and the caret already in the search field, which the Home Screen icon cannot do: the icon restores wherever you were last, and what you want from a hardware button is always a query. It pairs with the Control Center control of the same name. iPhone and iPad only, because it is built on a Control Center intent and Control Center has no macOS equivalent.
How to install one
Tap Download. On iPhone or iPad the file lands in Files - tap it there and Shortcuts opens with the actions laid out; scroll down and choose Add Shortcut. On a Mac, open the downloaded file and Shortcuts adds it.
They are signed so that anyone can run them. You will not be asked to turn on "Allow Untrusted Shortcuts", which is not a thing anyone should have to switch on to try something.
One more is comingiPhone and iPad
Quick Save Clipboard saves whatever is on the clipboard from a hardware button, in one press. It is built and signed, and it is held back for one honest reason: the only time it has been run, it asked for text first and then said there was nothing to save, which is not what it is supposed to do. It goes up when that has been run again against the release build and behaved. Publishing a shortcut that fails is worse than publishing nothing.
Built something with these? support@usefingertips.com.