[psidnell]

I've wanted a reasonably flexible way of generating mardown/taskpaper/html reports of completed tasks from OmniFocus - but never quite found any love for AppleScript.

So I've developed a python library that directly reads the OF database and builds a complete model of the task/project/context hierarchy that can then be used to generate whatever you wish.

It's early days at the moment (there's no help at all yet) but there are example report generating scripts (for my purposes) that should get you going if you know python and sample AppleScript wrappers so you can add buttons that drive the scripts from the OF toolbar.

I've been using this for a few months now with no issues, but bear in mind that the problem of this approach (i.e. scraping the database) is that Omni make no guarantees about compatibility or support going forward. And nor do I :-)

Comments welcome.

The freshly minted GitHub repo is here.

Thanks

[whpalmer4]

Now if only I could run this in Python on the iPad :-)

Any particular version of Python required?

[psidnell]

Originally Posted by whpalmer4

Now if only I could run this in Python on the iPad :-)

Give it a try, tell me how it goes :-)

Originally Posted by whpalmer4

Any particular version of Python required

I'm using 2.7.3 I think (on my ipad right now), but I'm not doing anything clever so the built in version should do.

One odd problem I have at the moment seems to relate to wide character support, but only if launched from AppleScript, it's fine when started from the console - haven't got to the bottom of that one yet...

I like the elegance of the hierarchy handling – thank you !

[psidnell]

Thankyou! It's actually my first Python program, it probably smells of Java :-)

[whpalmer4]

I'm a Python novice, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I get nothing when I try any of the reports. I did fix the obvious problem with my home directory being something other than /Users/psidnell, but if I try to run linkgen.py I get

bash-3.2$ python linkgen.py 
  File "linkgen.py", line 6
    def __init__ (self, out, types = {'Folder', 'Project', 'Task'}, indent=4):
                                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
bash-3.2$

and the most I can get out of any of the other scripts is

# Weekly Progress Report

## Bill Palmer Sat Feb 09 2013

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I'm running Python 2.6.1 on 10.6.8. Any suggestions on my next troubleshooting step?