What mechanisms do OmniFocus users who use Firefox use to get webpage URLs into OmniFocus?
I used the
Keyconfig extension to assign a keystroke
that opens a JavaScript bookmarklet (via assigning it a keyword) that ties in with
OmniFocus URI Handler to place the task into OmniFocus.
This is ideal in some respects, but not in others. The way the OmniFocus URI Handler was originally written, a tweak in the URL you used for the bookmarklet would, instead of sending the task directly to OmniFocus, bring it up in the Quick Entry window. Despite being documented in this manner, after e-mailing the author, it doesn't appear this works.
(Nor does assigning project or context in the URL, either. Something is better than nothing, but the lack of all these functionalities is really quite unfortunate and unpleasant.)
This latter choice -- bring up the Quick Entry window with much of it prefilled -- would be much more ideal, because I find myself being "lazy" enough to let the cookie-cutter text stand, and not be specific about what I am actually bookmarking the page for. In fact, allowing that "laziness" to proceed for too long has led to the necessity of rebuilding my task list from scratch over the next few days.
I'd like to know how other users of both OmniFocus and Firefox have merged the two.
(This is especially important -- both for me and, I imagine, for others -- because, since I spend much time in the browser (given Gmail, Facebook and a myriad of other Internet "homes"), webpages usually are a reminder of a task. Ah, I'm on Reddit's food subreddit -- and that's a burger recipe I need to expand into a miniproject!
*click* Ah, I'm on my bank account's webpage -- and I notice that they sent me an account alert a full 23 hours after the event it was supposed to "alert" me to. I should send them a complaint.
*click* And so on.)
If there are few or no other ways of doing business other than the half-working one I'm employing, if someone from Omni Group is reading this, could you speak to whether there are any plans to offer better official support with Firefox and OmniFocus? I have no plans (at the moment) to switch from Firefox -- and at the risk of sounding disagreeable, I don't think I should have to. Given its immense popularity, it seems very counterintuitive not to offer official support in the form of an authentic and better-featured way to get page URLs from Firefox to OmniFocus, as one can do with Safari.