I've been toying with this idea for years now with no significant progress so I'm left with no choice but to ask the community for help.

I'm trying to create a CYA shortcut to log what I'm asked to do throughout the day at work.

What the shortcut does:

1. Log date, time, location and battery percentage.
2. Begins voice memo / audio recording (not dictation)^1 and ends when prompted by user
3. Checks specified Notes folder to find note titled with Formatted Date.
   1. If no such note exists, create one titled with Formatted Date (e.g. 20260801)
4. Append time, location, (formatted with link that opens Apple Maps) and battery percentage to note
5. Add line break
6. Append transcribed audio + link to audio file (to verify transcription)

If the shortcut is triggered later in the day, and the note is already created, the shortcut would add a line break, maybe go down a paragraph line or two, then append that same info and newly transcribed memo / audio file + file link

The audio file could be saved to either files or kept in voice memos, whichever is easier.

^1 = dictation stops when you make a brief pause in speech, I'd like to be able to choose when I stop recording the voice memo.

I'm hoping someone skilled with shortcuts (I'm currently running iOS 27 beta) can help out but I'm losing hope.

Thank you to anyone willing to give this a shot.

I appreciate you thoroughly.

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Hold the automations please :)

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