How to use Shortcuts on iOS to automatically save link to GitHub as a Reading List.

The idea: How to use Issues Feature on GitHub as a Reading List.

Pros:

1. Easy to search by using the keywords in issues on GitHub.
2. Easy to combine several topic related links into one Reading Task.
3. With GitHub feature “Task List” and Open/Close issues, it’s easy to mark individual Reading Task status.
4. The Labels feature on Issues will help me better organize my Reading List.

Cons:

1. It’s quite clumsy to add a new link to my Reading List.

To solve this con, we’ll use Shortcuts on iOS and and GitHub APIs to automatically adding the links to certain GitHub repos from Safari.

Key Tech Feature will be used here:

1. GitHub
2. Shortcuts on iOS

Steps:

On GitHub.

1. If you don’t have a GitHub account, you should definitely start with an account registration.
2. Create a new repo or use an existing repo, where you will keep all the Reading Task in issues.
3. To access your public/private repo, we need certain access permission. To achieve that, go to https://github.com/settings/tokens, where you could “Generate new token”, under “Personal access…