With nudges from Lisa and many other sources, I’m again realizing the importance of hydration to general health.
Today this led me to this Reddit thread that provides an Apple Shortcut that will let me log water consumption to Apple Health. I installed it. It works. It’s simple and, because it’s a Shortcut, I can remix it.
There are myriad dedicated apps for doing this that have more bells and whistles—reminders to drink, calculations of required daily intake, etc.—but every single one I’ve encountered is a bait-and-switch free-to-paid upsell. I just wanted to log my water intake, and the Shortcut does it well, and does it free.
One of the lovely things about Shortcuts is that if you’re all-in on the Apple ecosystem, installing them on one device makes them available on all devices. So I can now log water intake from my MacBook Air, from my iPhone, and from the HomePod in our kitchen.
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