(MacOS) Linking from a note to photos taken on a specific day (Shortcuts + Photos.app)

A sweet little addition to my vault. In order to try this out, you’ll need to download this shortcut. It takes a text input, parses that text as a date, and then searches for that date in Photos.

I added the following to my Daily Note template:

---
photos: shortcuts://x-callback-url/run-shortcut?name=Photos%20On%20This%20Day&input=text&text={{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}
---

When the template runs, it transforms {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} into something like 2026-03-04.

Now, clicking on the resulting link, in the frontmatter of my daily notes, links directly to the images in Photos.app that were taken on that date.

Enjoy!

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