Tag: OmniFocus

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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My custom Alfred.app searches

I thought others might find a couple of my custom searches and fallback searches for Alfred.app interesting. When I type some text that doesn't match anything, here's what I get: The "Jira search" entry searches my company's...

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OmniFocus extension for PopClip

I just hacked together an OmniFocus extension for PopClip TheÂ extension creates a new task with the selected task in the OmniFocusÂ quick entry window. Just a tiny bit of AppleScript. Installation Unpack...

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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...