[apeman88]

Adding URLs in quick entry seems a little more difficult than it should be, but perhaps I am missing something:

1. Generic example: I am browsing Craigslist and see a job posting that I want to apply for.

2. I have an extisting project apply for jobs, context office:computer

3. I fire up the quick entry, and drag the URL from Safari's URL bar to the quick entry.

4. Only the title of the positing appears.

5. OK, now I drag it again to the notes field. Voila! URL appears.

6. I attempt to Tab to project and context, but I end up tabbing within Safari

7. I am forced to click into the Quick Entry box, with brings OF forward, hiding Safari.

8. I enter project and context

9. I find my safari window, and keep browsing.

I am missing something, or it this the only way to accomplish this task in OF?

[Toadling]

Why not just use the clipping feature?

1) Select some text on the web page (or the URL in the address field, if you want)

2) Hit your clipping shortcut (assigned in OmniFocus -> Preferences -> Clippings)

3) Depending on your preference settings, the clipping either gets sent directly to your inbox or will appear in the Quick Entry window, where you can make modifications (like adding project and context).

Hope this helps.

-Dennis

PS - BTW, there does still seem to be a bug in the Quick Entry window: if you have OmniFocus hidden, bring up the Quick Entry window, bring another app to the front to copy some text or whatever, then click on the Quick Entry window again to give it focus so text can be pasted, sometimes the main OmniFocus window also suddenly appear and come to the front. I think some variation of this bug has been present since the pre-release beta last year.

[Toadling]

Another option, more similar to your original workflow: When dragging the URL to the Quick Entry window, don't drop it in the action's Name field (i.e. the field with focus, where you get a green circle cursor with a white plus sign in it).

Instead, drag the URL to the row handle (the area just to the left of the Name field) and you'll get a curved arrow cursor (which means "alias" or "link" in OS X). When you release, the URL is automatically added to the Comments field. And if it's a valid format (which it should be if it came directly from Safari) it'll automatically become an clickable link.

As an aside, if you select and drag the URL itself from Safari's address field, you'll get a link that looks like this:

http://www.omnigroup.com/

However, if you grab the favicon from Safari's address field (little icon to the left of the URL) and drag that to the Quick Entry window, you'll get the site's title in the comments field that's a link to the URL. So you'll have a link that looks like this:

The Omni Group

Sorry if you already knew this. :)

-Dennis

[apeman88]

Toadling. Thanks for your replies, very appreciated.

1. Clipping seems to be the most functional workflow for the process I outlined above. The only extra step is actually the need to highlight something on the page...

2. Dragging the address field also works in both your and my example, but It still requires dragging twice, and more annoying, the inability to Tab within Quick Entry to complete the project/context.

I understand that Omnifocus is really the pseudo-front application with the Quick Entry box, meaning you want the ability to pull and drop from other apps without making the main OF window appear, so it may be a Cocoa/Apple thing...but it would be nice to be able to navigate with the Quick ENtry window with Tabs...

[Toadling]

Originally Posted by apeman88

...but it would be nice to be able to navigate with the Quick ENtry window with Tabs...

You can navigate with tabs in the Quick Entry window, but only if the window has focus. Or did I misunderstand you?

-Dennis

[apeman88]

Yes you can, but I sometimes get not just the Quick Entry window in focus, but the entire App is brought forward. It seems inconsistent in fact, and perhaps even a bug (which I believe you mentioned), because I just tried to reproduce it now and it did not bring OF forward...hmmm

[kaijin]

Originally Posted by apeman88

1. Clipping seems to be the most functional workflow for the process I outlined above. The only extra step is actually the need to highlight something on the page...

When clipping a web page, text on the page or the url in the address bar must be selected. Many times I create tasks or projects that reference sites without need to import text selections from pages on those sites. Currently, I must select text then delete it in the note beneath the hotlink; or select the url which results in two hotlinks to the same site in the note (or go through the drag and drop steps outlined in the thread, rather than use clippings).

Please allow the user to clip a web page when no text or address selected. When a browser window/tab has focus, pressing the clippings shortcut would create a task with the title of the page as its default name and the hotlinked page title would be placed as the note. (If text is desired, that could still be selected for import according to current behavior). This would be applied to web clippings added to directly to inbox and via Quick Entry.

Email the support team if you'd like to vote for this small pony request.

[xmas]

One of our posters came up with this:

http://nik.me/omnifocus-uri-handler

I have a "Quick Entry" bookmarklet that I use (a lot). Works great. No need to select text.


(the original forum post: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=8251)

[gradualist]

Originally Posted by apeman88

(...) more annoying, the inability to Tab within Quick Entry to complete the project/context.

(...)but it would be nice to be able to navigate with the Quick ENtry window with Tabs...

I'm having the same bother as apeman88 here, which is that I can't tab into or out of the Notes field in the Quick Entry box. So I go to make a clipping with my keyboard shortcut, type Name, Project, Context etc by tabbing along, but then the tab skips the flag and notes field and returns to the beginning.

Please can tabbing to Notes be enabled, or is there an extra key press I need to use to get there?

Thanks!

[curt.clifton]

Cmd-' will get you to the notes. Use Help --> Send Feedback to report the problem with tabbing.