Add new inbox item
A customer asked for an applescript that let them add an inbox item when OmniFocus wasn't running. In case that's useful for other folks, here's what I slapped together:
[CODE]set itemText to display dialog "Enter text you'd like to add to OmniFocus:" default answer "" set newItem to text returned of itemText as Unicode text tell application "OmniFocus" to tell default document make new inbox task with properties {name:newItem} end tell [/CODE] |
Handy, but "myText" on line 1 should be "itemText". Thanks for posting.
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I am the best applescript coder ever. Fixed.
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Problem with using AppleScript here is that it'll launch OmniFocus, which means that this is not a transparent way to record something and continue on with what you're doing.
I store things that I want to hit the OF inbox in iCal; use a separate calendar if you like. This way, things are captured without distracting me. QuickSilver has a nifty capture tool for iCal, and there are tons of others; likewise, items I enter on my Palm get the same treatment. |
launching OmniFocus if it wasn't running was something the customer was looking for, but yeah - if you don't want that, another way would be more appropriate.
Customer had one more request, so tweaked the script a bit more. It now a) finds a window pointed at your default document (if you have more than one window open) and brings that forward. b) switches that window to project mode if you're in context mode c) adds the inbox to your sidebar selection if it isn't already selected. [CODE] set itemText to display dialog "Enter text you'd like to add to OmniFocus:" default answer "" set newItem to text returned of itemText as Unicode text tell application "OmniFocus" tell default document make new inbox task with properties {name:newItem} end tell set defDocID to id of default document set defDocWindow to "" repeat with w in windows of it set d to document of w if d is not missing value then if id of d is defDocID then set defDocWindow to w exit repeat end if end if end repeat if defDocWindow is "" then set filePath to file of default document set defDoc to open filePath tell defDoc set defDocWindow to make new document window end tell end if set selected view mode identifier of defDocWindow to "project" tell sidebar of defDocWindow set selected of inbox to true end tell activate end tell [/CODE] |
but
This is a nice script...but
you still end up opening Omni-f, though it is in the back ground. I know it was mentioned in another thread it takes up lots of energy to keep Omni-f running, but why not open Omni-f and insert your task properly --- it takes less than 2 minutes the timie threshold for GTD just wondering... |
how to use script
This sounds like just what I need, but could someone kindly tell a non-scripter how to put this script to use??
Thankyou! Kim |
look to the faq
go to this
[URL]http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=7453[/URL] thread |
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