Forum: OmniGraffle General
2013-03-21, 08:43 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 4,299
Text flow through linked shapes?
Is it possible to link text-containing shapes such that a single text will flow from one to the next (and would reflow as the shapes get modified)? The most trivial example would be putting several...
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Forum: OmniGraffle General
2013-03-20, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 6,571
Importing .graffle files into a .graffle document
I have a number of figures I've created with OmniGrafflePro, and now I am using OGP to create a poster containing them, along with some other content. I want to import them in .graffle format in...
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Forum: OmniGraffle General
2013-03-02, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 4,447
applescript to put text to the left of a point?
What is the applescript to align the right side of a text immediately to the left of a certain point? Here is what I'm using:make new shape at front of graphics with properties {side padding: 0,...
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Forum: OmniGraffle General
2013-02-27, 06:09 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,941
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Forum: OmniGraffle General
2013-02-26, 04:03 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,941
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Forum: OmniGraffle General
2013-02-26, 11:43 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,941
Order of creating shapes within a tell canvas
I'm using a shell script to generate applescript to produce a number of figures. The figures contain filled shapes which must be logically in front of other shapes and lines. I'm relying on the...
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Forum: OmniGraffle Extras
2013-02-13, 02:57 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 114,500
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Forum: OmniGraffle General
2013-02-05, 03:36 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,570
Applescript for “pro-only” fill patterns?
I'm trying to script a graph in which rectangles are filled with things like diagonal lines and so on. The “pro-only” fill mode, on the right in the color dialog in the fill inspector, looks great,...
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Forum: OmniGraffle General
2013-01-30, 12:56 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,223
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Forum: OmniGraffle General
2013-01-30, 09:00 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,223
problem: copy as applescript | osascript -
So, I draw a shape in Omnigraffle Pro (in this case a simple text box), and then select Save as applescript from the menu. I get the following results with osascript:
$ pbpaste | osascript -...
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Forum: Applying OmniFocus
2013-01-11, 09:07 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 39,259
I agree mostly, but lately I've been moderately...
I agree mostly, but lately I've been moderately successful with time-based contexts, linked to Calendar.app. Mine are Research (my actual job), Overtime, Errand/Chores, and Noon. I set up Calendar so...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2012-10-16, 01:10 PM
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Replies: 343
Views: 363,339
The point is that multi-colored flags are an...
The point is that multi-colored flags are an obvious way to mark variable task priority while staying very close to present OF functionality, and their implementation in Mail would be an excellent...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2012-10-16, 07:49 AM
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Replies: 343
Views: 363,339
A vote for using flag colors to mark priorities
When red-flagging was implemented in OF in the early days, I'll bet there was a discussion among developers about whether to add multi-colored flags. Evidently, a decision was made to just have the...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2012-09-23, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,666
Using Calendar notifications
OK, here is what I've come up with as a way to implement alerts based on these temporal contexts.
I set up a perspective for each one, showing Due & Flagged ungrouped (which is how I want to see...
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Forum: OmniPlan General
2012-09-19, 08:53 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 6,134
Using days as scheduling granularity
I have a fairly long project I've been trying to set up, and day granularity is really about right for it. However, here are a few comments about using this mode with Omniplan.
The underlying...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2012-09-13, 07:37 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,666
Suggestion: Temporal contexts
I'm having trouble coming up with anything useful for contexts in OmniPlan. I work at home. Sometimes I go elsewhere for a meeting or something, but then I come back home. However, I divide my time...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2011-01-07, 04:24 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 9,596
(1) Not if implemented as an invariant time...
(1) Not if implemented as an invariant time offset. Also, there is only one mark: how could there be a mark for invariant Overdue and for invariant Due Soon? And, the idea is for the invariant...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2011-01-07, 09:16 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 9,596
Two requests
These are a couple of related things I wouldn't mind being able to use in OmniFocus.
(1) Being able to mark an object with an explicit, invariant “Due Soon” and “Overdue” without entering an...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2010-05-08, 03:05 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 11,895
But what I'm doing is going from the name of a...
But what I'm doing is going from the name of a filesystem folder to the name of an OmniFocus project, so "I" won't know where a given filesystem project folder is in the OmniFocus folder hierarchy.
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2010-05-08, 12:25 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 11,895
I really appreciate all the help.
Here's...
I really appreciate all the help.
Here's another glitch that I don't know how to handle. In OmniFocus, I have my projects in folders. For example, there's a folder "Writing". So suppose I have a...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2010-05-07, 08:41 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 11,895
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2010-05-07, 06:01 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 11,895
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2010-05-06, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 11,895
Yes, that's in the right direction, but I don't...
Yes, that's in the right direction, but I don't want to "complete" a project name, I want to find the id of a specific project from its name. The completion method is inherently ambiguous. I wrote a...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2010-05-06, 11:26 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 11,895
Additional information on this, I found in the...
Additional information on this, I found in the xml-format OmniFocus database an entry for a task with the same ID used in the URL, containing a "project" entry and a "name" entry that gave the name...
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Forum: OmniFocus 1 for Mac
2010-05-06, 09:57 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 11,895
omnifocus: links
If I'm in a project folder on my Mac, working on the project, I'd like to be able to quickly open the corresponding OmniFocus project. It turns out that there is a nifty feature in OmniFocus whereby...
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