Shortcuts and Siri
Tria answers Siri, shows up in Shortcuts and puts what it files into Spotlight. You can ask how it’s doing without opening the window, and ask it for things that never move anything without you.
Questions
The phrases work with Siri on the Mac in English, and they’re all in the Shortcuts app too.
| Say to Siri | It answers with |
|---|---|
| “How’s Tria doing?” | For each space: what’s in the inbox, how it’s looking and the last batch. |
| “What’s in the Tria inbox?” | Unread documents, ready ones with their folder, and the ones with a doubt. |
| “What has Tria sorted today?” | What was filed today or this week, and in which folders. |
| “How much have I spent on Tria?” | With your key, this month’s spending and the limit; with Tria AI, the documents you have left. |
| “Search in Tria” | It asks what you’re looking for and shows you the filed documents, with “Open” and “Show in Finder”. |
“How’s Tria doing?” covers all your spaces. For the rest, if you have several and don’t say which, Tria uses the last one you worked in.
Actions
| Say to Siri | What it does |
|---|---|
| “Read the inbox with Tria” | The same as “Read with Tria”: reads what’s waiting in the inbox. |
| “Pause Tria” and “Resume Tria” | Stops or resumes watching the inboxes, like the pause button in the menu bar. |
| “Open the Tria inbox” | Opens the window on that view: also the archive, the history, the rules or usage. |
“Read the inbox” needs the same as in the app: permission to send, a connection, and balance or a key. If something’s missing, it tells you what. If there are more than 100 unread documents, it first tells you how much it will cost and asks whether to read them.
Sort with Tria, in Shortcuts
The “Sort with Tria” action copies the documents you pass it to the inbox, and Tria reads them like any others. The originals stay where they were. It has one parameter, Space: if you don’t pick one, it goes to the last one you used.
It’s handy, for example, for a shortcut that sends Tria the documents you have selected in the Finder. Folders aren’t accepted, and a name that’s already in the inbox comes in with “ (2)”.
Spotlight
What Tria files appears in Spotlight as “Filed Document”, and you can find it by its new name and by the name it arrived with. Opening it opens it in its app.
Siri and Spotlight see the name, folder and date of filed documents, never their content. If you ask Siri about a document, Siri can read it. All of this is controlled with “Siri and Spotlight can search the archive”, in Settings (⌘,) › Siri & Spotlight. It’s on by default; if you turn it off, Tria removes its documents from Spotlight, but Siri still answers how it’s doing and how much you’ve spent.
With Tria closed
If Tria isn’t open, macOS opens it in the background to answer: its icon appears in the menu bar, but not the window. If you haven’t created any spaces yet, Siri tells you so and offers “Open Tria”.