Perfect! Since you’re confirming you’d like the exact step-by-step instructions, I’ll guide you through creating a Shortcut on iPhone/iPad/Mac that scrapes recent email content and saves it as a text file.
📥 Shortcut: “Export Mail to Text File”
🛠 Prerequisites:
- Make sure the Mail app is installed and you’ve granted permission to access your emails in Shortcuts.
- You have iCloud Drive enabled (or another save location available).
🔧 Steps to Create the Shortcut:
- Open the Shortcuts app on your device.
- Tap ”+” to create a new shortcut and name it something like “Export Mail to Text”.
- Tap “Add Action” and follow these steps:
✅ Actions to Add:
1.
Find Mail
- Action: Find Mail
- Filter:
- Where Date Received is in the Last 1 Day (or adjust as needed)
- Sort by Date Received, Latest First
- Limit: 10 messages (or your preferred number)
2.
Repeat with Each Item
- Action: Repeat with Each (select the Mail messages from the previous step)
Inside the Repeat Block:
- Get Details of Mail
- Action: Get Details of Mail
- Choose: Subject
- Get Details of Mail
- Action: Get Details of Mail
- Choose: Sender
- Get Details of Mail
- Action: Get Details of Mail
- Choose: Date Received
- Get Details of Mail
- Action: Get Details of Mail
- Choose: Message Body
- Text
- Action: Text
- Paste this template: