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As an example, let's assume you have a Shortcuts workflow named "Get today's appointments" which fetches your appointments from the calendar, and which you only ever need when working in Notes. Here it is in the Shortcuts editor:

Screenshot of the Shortcuts editor, a workflow title "Get today's appointments" is open. The workflow consists of three actions: (1) A comment block reading "↓ Just a dummy example workflow, bear with me". (2) A "Find Calendar Events" action, set to return all events for the current day. (3) A "Create Note" action, c/o the Notes app, set to write all found events to a new note whose title is the current date.

You want this workflow to be available in the BarCuts menu whenever the Notes app is in front. So you'll add the BarCuts Tagger anywhere to this Shortcuts workflow, and configure it accordingly:

Screenshot of the Shortcuts editor, showing the BarCuts Tagger action, configured to "when app Notes is active, in top-level menu".

After a few seconds, BarCuts will register and index the change, and its menu will show the workflow when Notes is the frontmost app:

Screenshot of a macOS desktop, the Notes app is in foreground, a note with the current date (28. Apr 2025) is shown, the BarCuts menu is open below its menu bar icon, listing the "Get today's appointments" workflow.

And that's all there is to it!

The menu can be opened with the mouse, but you can also configure a global hotkey that will open it, in the app's Settings tab. Alternatively, you could also hook up BarCuts to Alfred, or connect it to your Raycast.