Does anyone here know if the idea of putting a 2 minute timer in OmniFocus in the same way as the Yak Timer in Midnight Inbox has been considered. I haven't tried it, but it seems like a useful feature.
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2011-03-18, 06:39 AM
Does anyone here know if the idea of putting a 2 minute timer in OmniFocus in the same way as the Yak Timer in Midnight Inbox has been considered. I haven't tried it, but it seems like a useful feature.
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Hey mrubenson. There's nothing there as OmniFocus currently exists, but here's a _very_ simple script (that you could create in Applescript Editor and save in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/OmniFocus/) that, literally, tells you "Time is up" after two minutes.
Code:
delay 120 do shell script "say Time is up"
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Guest
2011-03-18, 05:24 PM
I think that's generally a good approach - a script is a simple and flexible solution.
I would hesitate, however, to recommend the applescript delay command, which has had the reputation of being a surprisingly voracious resource hog, and, depending on the OS X version, might conceivably impact the perfomance of OmniFocus and any other applications that are struggling to get by. BSD sleep has always been a good citizen, so an alternative might be something like: Code:
do shell script "sleep 120" say "Time is Up" Code:
do shell script "sleep 120 say " & quoted form of "Hurry up please, it's Time ..." -- Last edited by RobTrew; 2011-03-19 at 03:07 AM..
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Member
2011-03-19, 06:52 AM
Thank you both of you for your responses! Do you have any advice on how to best create a system wide keyboard shortcut to start this script?
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Guest
2011-03-19, 07:45 AM
Quote:
Code:
#!/bin/bash sleep 120 say "Hurry up please, its time ..." --
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Member
2011-03-20, 02:54 AM
Apparently there seems to be a built in function in Snow Leopard to create user Services with Automator and assign shortcut, bypassing the need for additional software for this. Too bad I'm still on Leopard...
I set up FastScripts instead, which seem to be working fine together with th suggested shell script. Thanks again!
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Member
2011-03-21, 11:38 PM
There is a thread here: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthre...ight=timeboxed which has a couple of scripts for two minute timers, using two different timer apps.
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Member
2011-03-23, 07:18 AM
I've been using the StopIt! dashboard widget for my GTD timer for years:
http://www.metabang.com/widgets/stop-it/index.html It's simple, and does the job. I have one instance of it set for 2 min for my GTD timer.
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