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One of the most-requested features for the iOS editions of OmniFocus is a way to process information from other apps into OmniFocus action items. (Email, for example.)

One option is to use applications that support the Send to OmniFocus feature, but what if you're using an app that doesn't support it, like the built-in Mail app on your iPhone?

(If you're interested in apps that do support the feature, check this thread.)

Starting today, if you can turn the information into an email, you can add it to your OmniFocus inbox. Send an email from your PC, then tap a link on your iPhone to add that email to your database.

To try out the feature, send a message to send-to-omnifocus@omnigroup.com. Within a few seconds, you'll receive an auto-response from us which includes a "Send to OmniFocus" link.

When you get back to your OmniFocus device of choice, open that mail message and tap or click either "Send to OmniFocus" link. At that point, OmniFocus will launch on your device and add the the subject and text of the original email to your database. (Attachments don't go along for the ride, but that also means that your sync times stay fast.)

(Note that this works best if you use a dedicated mail application - Mail for OS X/iPhone/iPad - as opposed to viewing your mail inside a browser. Web browsers don't seem to handle the custom link type as well as the native apps do, and Gmail blocks non-http URLs.)

We'll probably do more work in this area for future versions of OmniFocus and/or the Omni Sync Server; this was just a quick/easy way we could improve the experience for folks that do a lot of work on non-Apple platforms. Hope it helps, and as always, we'd love to hear your feedback.

Update on 3/2/2012:
- Fixed truncated URL via first link;
- We now encode the HTML portion to better support all languages.

Update on 12/3/2012:

Closing this thread, as we're rolling out a new Omni Sync Server feature that's a significant improvement over this method. See this thread for more info.

Last edited by Brian; 2012-12-03 at 03:41 PM..
 
This is great! I'd gladly pay a subscription fee for an OF in the cloud type solution (expanded sync server stuff)
 
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One option is to use applications that support the Send to OmniFocus feature,
Are there any apps yet that support "Send to OmniFocus"?
 
Very cool! I'm hoping one day for the ability (I'd gladly pay for this) to send an email to $username@omnigroup.com (or whatever) and the items would show up in your inbox on next sync. But for now, this is definitely a great first step.
 
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Very cool! I'm hoping one day for the ability (I'd gladly pay for this) to send an email to $username@omnigroup.com (or whatever) and the items would show up in your inbox on next sync. But for now, this is definitely a great first step.
I completely agree. Just like I can add anything to my Evernote account by sending an email to my unique "add to evernote" email address, it would be much better to simply be able to send an email out and it automatically be added to my Omnifocus Inbox. This just seems like twice as much work. Oh and also I would like to say again how much I would value a web interface of Omni Focus that I could use when I do not have access to my iphone or imac (which is at home).
 
abishepherd, you'll be happy to know that we're working on an 'email the server' option like you're requesting; no ETA yet, but we're testing it internally.
 
This feature is actually pretty good but it would be much more usable for me if it would keep the attachment(s) as an attachment link on the action. I realize this would sometimes result in people's signature logos etc getting attached by accident but perhaps you could work around that or offer an option to turn it on or off by the user.
 
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abishepherd, you'll be happy to know that we're working on an 'email the server' option like you're requesting; no ETA yet, but we're testing it internally.

Any updates?
 
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Are there any apps yet that support "Send to OmniFocus"?
Instapaper does.
 
This is one of many reasons who I and I'm sure a lot of folks have decided to use OF and stay with it.

Keep up the great work and looking forward to better things to come in 2011.
 
 


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