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I don't see it called out in the app's marketing, but one of the neat possibilities of having a separate app on the home screen is that you should be able to launch a workflow through Siri. And I think that's very cool


Unfortunately you actually can't - Siri doesn't include web clips as apps it can launch. We're working on it.


UPDATE: I was able to get siri support by creating a contact called "Workflows" and adding the x-callback-url as a URL for the contact. I can say "Workflows" to Siri and she will show me a list of all my workflows, and I can select the one I want from a list.

The only tricky part was getting the x-callback-url out of the data: URL since the contacts app won't open data: urls. Yay!

PS. I LOVE this app so much. Thank you thank you thank you thank you!


This is incredibly clever. We have a completely separate, but equally crazy hack that we were thinking of using to implement this. But well done. And so glad you like it :)


Any plans to integrate something like this into the app?


UPDATE 2: I was nearly able to create a workflow to create a contact automatically. Unfortunately the "get contents of url" task doesn't support data URIs.




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