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Have a conversation once or have it over and over forever

When a team is collaborating to create software, there are inevitably issues that come up in “big picture” areas like architecture and process. There are two ways to deal with these: Take some time out from the daily...

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An unnecessary AppleScript to convert an OmniFocus task into a project

I hacked this up and then discovered via a tweet from Ken Case of the OmniGroup that it's completely unnecessary, because you can convert a task into a project in OmniFocus simply by using the outlining outdent shortcut of...

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Using TextExpander to expand a sequence of OmniFocus tasks: A failed experiment

I recently got turned on to TextExpander by the Mac Power Users podcast. One of my ideas was to use snippets in OmniFocus to create certain repetitive multi-action sequences. For example, when a project involves emailing someone...

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Append to nvALT journal – Alfred.app extension for nvALT

I whipped up a quick little extension for Alfred that lets me very quickly jot down time-stamped text. The hope is that if I make it ridiculously easy to log what I'm doing and when, then maybe I can have better records of what...

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PyOmniFocus

A while back, I mentioned here and here that OmniFocus maintains some kind of cache of your data in a SQLite database. I just hacked together a quick little prototype Python module for reading OmniFocus data:...

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OmniFocus AppleScript: Move project to folder

This is a pretty useful OmniFocus AppleScript that I developed by hacking on another script that I found on a blog. If you select a project and then execute the script, it will let you type in a string to search for a folder to...

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Accessing OmniFocus data as a sqlite database

While playing with some OmniFocus AppleScripts last night, I realized that OmniFocus on the Mac uses a sqlite database (in addition to the zipped .xml files that it uses for synching). This is pretty interesting, because it could...