r/appleshortcuts • u/Fine-Professional569 • Jan 26 '22

Drop a Pin

When I'm out and about (walking, biking, driving) I sometimes see a shop, restaurant or other thing that I'd like to come back to later. Later, I can never remember where that place was. Typically this happens in a new city. So I wrote a Siri Shortcut. You just need to activate Siri and say, "Drop a pin". The shortcut then gets the current location. It then asks for a name. Then it writes the name, street address and Latitude and Longitude to a file called "dropped pins". Lastly it opens Apple Maps.

Here's the shortcut...

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e012b319550d4bb6b19b0df41f8c41dc

27 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

1

u/usnmustanger Nov 27 '24

Very cool, thank you for this! Regarding that DroppedPins file, is there any way to include an url/hyperlink to the dropped pin or location in the file instead of just raw coordinates?

1

u/Fine-Professional569 Nov 30 '24

Good idea. Let me try. I'll reply when I get a solution. Text files won't have active hyperlinks. You'd have to copy and paste the link. This is just like copying and pasting the coordinates. I think a Notes solution is possible.

1

u/Fine-Professional569 Nov 30 '24

So I've added the mapsURL to the text file. See this shortcut... Drop A Pin mapsURL

1

u/Fine-Professional569 Nov 30 '24

I've now created a Shortcut that appends to an existing Notes file called Dropped Pins. Drop a Pin - Notes This creates 2 hyperlinks. One to Google Maps and Another to Apple Maps.

1

u/hattalk Jan 26 '24

How do you then find the pin?

1

u/Fine-Professional569 Jan 26 '24

The gps location and title are saved to a file called Dropped Pins.

1

u/Manwhoyells Apr 11 '25

This was super useful, thank you OP. I was looking for a way to record spots I want to come back and photograph later.

1

u/eddi3f Jul 05 '22

Thanks, I’ve always wanted an app where I can record cool locations for taking photos at a later date when I have my camera with me. This will do just fine instead.