Why syncing to iCal?
I might miss something pretty obvious but ... why would I like to sync OF with iCal???
I'm using OF on my iTouch so I don't need iCal for getting todo items on a mobile device. Is there any other reason to sync with iCal?? |
[QUOTE=jem;55398]I might miss something pretty obvious but ... why would I like to sync OF with iCal???
I'm using OF on my iTouch so I don't need iCal for getting todo items on a mobile device. Is there any other reason to sync with iCal??[/QUOTE] If you wanted to use iCal or you wanted to use the "To do" list in the Apple Mail application, perhaps. |
Before I bought an iPhone I synced to be able to access my tasks from the MobileMe Web portal. Now I sync to nothing but OmniFocus on my iPhone, and I don't use the Apple Mail/iCal to-do functionality at all.
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The reason we implemented syncing with iCal was to let you sync your tasks with mobile devices: I stopped syncing with iCal the moment I switched from a Treo to an iPhone. (And then I had to survive without a mobile task list until we released OmniFocus for iPhone…)
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OK. Good, then I can forget about that part of OF :)
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[QUOTE=jem;55407]OK. Good, then I can forget about that part of OF :)[/QUOTE]
No. The Calendar is essential tool in GTD workflow. Anyhing that is "hard landscape" should go directly from the lists (OFO) to calendar (iCal) and be worked on from there. Unfortunately, OFO does not allow this without some applescripting. |
[QUOTE=tmilovan;55668]No. The Calendar is essential tool in GTD workflow. Anyhing that is "hard landscape" should go directly from the lists (OFO) to calendar (iCal) and be worked on from there.
Unfortunately, OFO does not allow this without some applescripting.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure what you mean by "OFO does not allow this..."? True, OmniFocus doesn't move things to iCal [I]automatically[/I], but there's nothing preventing you from dragging an action's title text into iCal to create a new "hard landscape" event. I do this all the time: [LIST=1][*]Select an action in my OmniFocus inbox[*]Tab once to the action's title field[*]Drag selected title into iCal to create an event[/LIST] You can, of course, automate this with AppleScript to a certain degree. But it's not really a question of OmniFocus [I]allowing[/I] or [I]disallowing[/I] anything. -Dennis |
Perfect - Thanks - and thanks for the reply to my crashing problem!!
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[QUOTE=Toadling;55684]I'm not sure what you mean by "OFO does not allow this..."?
True, OmniFocus doesn't move things to iCal [I]automatically[/I], but there's nothing preventing you from dragging an action's title text into iCal to create a new "hard landscape" event. I do this all the time: [LIST=1][*]Select an action in my OmniFocus inbox[*]Tab once to the action's title field[*]Drag selected title into iCal to create an event[/LIST] You can, of course, automate this with AppleScript to a certain degree. But it's not really a question of OmniFocus [I]allowing[/I] or [I]disallowing[/I] anything. -Dennis[/QUOTE] Of course you can do it manually one by one, but it is daunting task. Here we are speaking about syncing feature, and syncing feature does not allow this.The most natural way will be if we could choose to sync only flagged items, and that is not possible without applescripting. |
[QUOTE=tmilovan;55941]Of course you can do it manually one by one, but it is daunting task. Here we are speaking about syncing feature, and syncing feature does not allow this.The most natural way will be if we could choose to sync only flagged items, and that is not possible without applescripting.[/QUOTE]
Just how much "hard landscape" stuff do you want to have in your calendar? And why would you want to have everything that you had flagged be synced into the calendar? That would seem to guarantee that you end up with a lot of stuff that is not "hard landscape" in the calendar! |
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