Shortcut Cannot Parse a Note

BioRich wrote:

I have a shortcut that reads a note and looks for today's date. If today's date is there, it gives me one notification to say "don't take pills". If it doesn't have today's date, it says "take pills". Very straight forward.

It doesn't work. In fact it's temperamental as it changes from day to day.

Is Shortcuts half baked? There's no reason why it should change and the logic is there.

Mac mini, macOS 15.5

see if there is anything here

ref: Intro to Shortcuts on Mac - Apple Support

The current stable release of Sequoia including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 15.6 - I would start here

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BioRich ~ See if this suggestion helps in your Format action...

MMM dd, yyyy returns a leading zero for the day, e.g. Aug 05, 2025

...Instead, use the following string which returns: Aug 5, 2025

MMM d, yyyy

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BioRich ~ I copied & pasted your above dates into my note and tested it with & without today's date in the note on both iPhone & Mac. It works perfectly! ...I suggest you put the Text & Show Result actions into your shortcut and see what it reveals. (The Format action being: MMM d, yyyy.)

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BioRich ~ Please post a screenshot of your note. My simple note works and I added a Show Result action to reveal what's going on:

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