Possible to add multiple actions quickly?

[liggitt]

I'm looking at switching to OmniFocus from Appigo's Todo, and am trying to evaluate features.

One feature of Todo that I love is the ability to quickly add multiple items to the inbox by tapping "return" between each one. For example:
*tap quick-add*
type "Task 1", *tap return*
type "Task 2", *tap return*
type "Task 3", *tap return*
...

From the demo videos for OmniFocus for iPhone/iPad, I can't tell what OmniFocus does. If you tap 'return' when entering a new action, which of the following does it do?
1) save the action and close the form
2) save the action and open a form for a new action
3) enter a newline in the action title

[Brian]

Welcome to the forums!

The Return key is there when you're editing an action's note (and inserts a new line) but when you're editing an action title, it's replaced with a "Done" button.

If I need to enter stuff quickly, I just tap "Save" to dismiss the current item, then tap the Quick Entry button in the toolbar to start entering the next one. Works pretty well for me, but I believe we have a feature request open for something like what you describe. If you email our support ninjas (omnifocus-iphone@omnigroup.com), we can attach you to the request. (Items with more customer interest attached tend to get assigned higher priority.)

[aliteralmind]

I've said this a number of times before on this forum:

I enter multiple items rather quickly onto my iPhone OmniFocus with a web app I created early last year:

http://www.jeffyepstein.com/docs/computer/omnifocus_iphone_mass_import/index.html

It's not ideal, but it's much faster than repeatedly pressing the Quick Entry button. You can paste in a text file where each line is an action, and each action can have an optional note.

By fast-app switching from O.F. and the web app, you can really quickly enter in a lot of items.

Give it a try and let me know what you think. Please spread the word if you find it useful. I wrote it a long time ago and I'm not sure many people know about it.

[liggitt]

Looks interesting, thanks!