🔗 Formatting lists in Shortcuts

In Apple Shortcuts I use “lists” a lot. Especially in my Journaling shortcut and my upcoming new “Clipboard Manager” which I’m using every day. The lists are not very well documented so it’s a question of trial and error to figure out how to format them the way you want. Here are two tricks that I use: Standard list If I want just the list of items, I can list them in a text field and add action “split items” by “line breaks” and that’s it. However, when testing this feature I realized that you can also put a multi-line item to the list and it will display the entire paragraphs inside the lists. List instead of an alert? The feature of displaying long paragraphs is especially useful. I started using “choose from list” in many places in my shortcuts instead of a simple “alert” because the alert would trim the paragraph or display it incorrectly. As you can see, an alert doesn’t have a scroll and it goes over the “Cancel/OK” buttons. The list has a scroll and you can just tap on the…