Automation

Cortex Shelf answers to cortexshelf:// links, so Shortcuts, Spotlight, scripts and the command line can drive it.

Link	Does
cortexshelf://open/<section>	Opens a section: home, music, shelf, clipboard, notes, screenshots, search, focus, ports
cortexshelf://focus/<action>	Controls focus: start, pause, toggle, skip, reset
cortexshelf://search?q=<text>	Opens Search with a query

From Terminal:

open "cortexshelf://open/notes"
open "cortexshelf://focus/start"
open "cortexshelf://search?q=git%20rebase"

Not authenticated

Any app, and any web page you visit, can open these links. They only open sections, control the focus timer and start a search; none of them reads, sends or deletes your data.

Automations

Settings › Automations has three switches that work on their own:

• Hide ID/card numbers in clipboard: sensitive clips are not saved (see Clipboard).
• Automatic OCR on screenshots (see Screenshots).
• Downloaded PDFs go to Shelf (see Shelf).