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This is a command line tool that directly reads your OmniFocus database and writes text files in a variety of formats.

Instructions here.

Let me know if you have any trouble or ideas.
 
Hi,

When I edit the script in Xcode I get command not available. ANy ideas what the problem might be?
Thanks
Nick
 
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Hi,

When I edit the script in Xcode I get command not available. ANy ideas what the problem might be?
Thanks
Nick
I'd hazard a guess that you might have missed a step of the installation instructions here or perhaps got the path wrong.

Have you:

1. Modified ofexport so the path to ofexport.py is correct?
2. Set execute permission on ofexport ("chmod +x ofexport")?
3. Modified your $PATH variable so your installation folder is on your path?

If you're running terminal and in your installation directory, type "bash ofexport" on the command line. If it prints out it's options then (1) is OK.

If you type "./ofexport" and it prints it's options then (2) is OK.

Otherwise I'd suspect (3).
 
Just made V2.0.0 available.

This version has fancy expression filters e.g:

Code:
ofexport -E -a done=any -I -t "flagged or (due='to tomorrow')" -o /tmp/ex8-due-or-flagged.taskpaper
creates a taskpaper document with all uncompleted tasks that are flagged or due in the next 2 days.

Usage examples here.

Full documentation here.

I've been using this version for about a week so most of the screamingly obvious bugs are gone but the expression parsing is pretty new so bear that in mind...
 
Is it possible to filter by a perspective?

I have one called current focus that is the 5-10 projects I'm focusing on right now. I find it helpful view that perspective in context view ungrouped, sorted by due date, with availability set to next action, as it tends to give me a list of the 5-10 actions I need to be focusing on.

It would be great if I could put that on my desktop with geektool and hazel.
 
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Is it possible to filter by a perspective?
Not yet - that would be nice though!

The nearest you can get is to use the filtering to include/exclude the same (or a similar set) of tasks that you see in your perspective.

Something like:

Code:
ofexport -p 'text="Proj1|Proj2"' -E -a done=any --open -o ~/Desktop/x.taskpaper
Would do the trick, but you'd have to keep it up to date with what projects are current. I have a bunch of little fragments like this that I put in dedicated bash scripts.

Alternatively, a lower maintenance scheme is to "tag" the projects you want to appear in your report by adding something to the notes in your current projects in OmniFocus.

For example by adding "#current" to the notes of a few of your projects you could then use:

Code:
ofexport -p 'note="#current"' -E -a done=any --open -o ~/Desktop/x.taskpaper
I use this trick for exporting certain items to my calendar.

The problem with ofexport directly using perspectives is that I think the each perspective is stored as a rule that has to be executed in order to derive what's visible in it - and there are several aspects of the visibility of items in the omnifocus database that I've yet to understand (such as if a project/context is paused, or what the next action is). Until I've decoded those I can't really replicate a perspective faithfully.

Detecting the paused/on-hold status is next on my list of things to decipher.
 
Is it possible to include the hyperlink url to a task in an export via ofexport?

If so how? Does it involve modifying the template? Or
 
Never mind. I figured it out. Thanks.
 
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Never mind. I figured it out. Thanks.
Glad I could help :-)
 
Hi Paul. I'm jumping on to this a bit late but it looks like an amazingly flexible system you've set up here and I want in :-)

My problem is that I can't seem to get this to work and I'm hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. Having installed via git and made the appropriate PATH entries in the .bashrc file, I'm getting an error when running of export -? as below:

File "/Users/deano/ofexport/src/main/python/ofexport.py", line 128, in <module>
config = load_config (home_dir)
File "/Users/deano/ofexport/src/main/python/ofexport.py", line 74, in load_config
config = json.loads(instream.read())
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 365, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 381, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Expecting ',' delimiter: line 73 column 9 (char 2109)

Clearly suggests it's python related but I don't know where to start with that. I'm running 10.9.2 with python version 2.7.5 which sounds like it should be OK. Is there something I'm doing wrong by any chance? Would love to get this working.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers
Deano
 
 


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