Create a name for the Quick Post, then enter your OmniFocus email address. Standard format. When an email is forwarded to OmniFocus, the subject line will automatically become the Inbox item name. Any text, attachments, and simple HTML in the body of the email will become the Inbox note. The best place to go is your Inbox, since this is the place where you’ll do most of your initial work in OmniFocus. The Inbox is the hub of all activity, and is the catch-all space for depositing just about everything that’s on your mind, no matter how big or small. Inbox items have the Active status by default. For more on the meaning of each status, see Item Status. Flag—A flag that is either empty (unflagged), filled orange (flagged), or with an orange outline (inherited flag). Click it to set or remove flagged status on the selection. When a flag is set on an inbox item, it appears in the Flagged.

Appendix E

OmniFocus as a standalone app is an incredibly powerful tool. Beyond what you can do with OmniFocus alone, the app interacts with other apps and services to help you get stuff done with even greater convenience and efficiency.

This appendix lists ways that OmniFocus can be used in tandem with other software to achieve your goals.

Email Capture (Mail Drop)

Mail Drop 3dfx voodoo series drivers download for windows 10, 8.1, 7, vista, xp. is a feature of the Omni Sync Server that lets you send emails directly to your OmniFocus Inbox. You can create multiple private send-to addresses to give access to third parties, and delete those addresses at any time. In order to use Mail Drop, you’ll need to have an Omni Account (they’re free), and OmniFocus must be configured to actively sync with that account on our server.

If you’re already using Omni Sync Server to sync OmniFocus, you can log in to the Omni Sync Server web interface and create your first Mail Drop address. After logging in, click or tap Add An Address to automatically generate the email address (a combination of your account name and a random string of characters).

If you don’t have a Omni Account yet, you can sign up in OmniFocus Settings under Omni Account. The account creation process includes instructions for configuring OmniFocus to use your new account.

When you send an email message to a Mail Drop address, the subject line of that message becomes the name of the new Inbox item. The body of the message becomes the note, which can contain text and simple HTML; attachments to the email (such as images) are added as attachments to the OmniFocus item as well.

See OmniFocus Mail Drop on the Omni support website for more details on this feature.

Workflow Automation

With some knowledge of programming, you can use callback URLs to automate conversations between OmniFocus and other apps on your iOS device. This offers the ability to set up project templates with custom data fields, for example, along with many other powerful automation possibilities.

This is an advanced feature that requires some tinkering under the hood; for help getting started integrating OmniFocus with the workflow app of your choice, see URL Schemes in OmniFocus on the Inside OmniFocus website.

Omni Automation

OmniFocus Pro supports automating tasks in OmniFocus using JavaScript. You can create your own plug-ins or use plug-ins created by others; see the Omni Automation website for a set of sample Plug-Ins that you can use right away, or find documentation resources for creating your own.

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Installing Omni Automation Plug-Ins

Once you have a plug-in that you would like to try, you will need to install it in a connected folder that OmniFocus recognizes.

If you are looking for a place to start with plug-ins, head on over to the Omni Automation website and find one you like.

First, download the plug-in file and navigate to it in the Files app. If it is zipped, tap the file to unzip it. The resulting file will have an .omnijs extension (the file format for Omni Automation Plug-Ins).

Next, tap the plug-in file, which presents an import dialog in OmniFocus: Action actina nevada e series driver download for windows.

If everything looks in order, choose an install destination from the Location menu and tap Install Plug-In. The plug-in is copied to that location and appears in the Plug-Ins management screen.

iOS might not associate the .omnijs file type with OmniFocus the first time you try to open a plug-in from the Files app. If this happens, you can use the Share menu to open the plug-in in OmniFocus instead.

• Tap and hold the plug-in file in Files until the contextual menu appears.
• Choose Share and scroll through the available Application options. If Open in OmniFocus doesn't appear, tap More and scroll until you find it.

• Tap Open in OmniFocus and the plug-in import dialog appears, ready to continue the installation process.

After installing your first plug-in this way, for future installations tapping the plug-in file in Files will open the import dialog directly.

Once you have installed your first plug-in it appears as an action in the Automation menu and the Share dialog, ready to use. Tap it to run the plug-in and start experimenting with what Omni Automation can do.

Managing Plug-Ins

Use the Plug-Ins screen (opened with Configure Plug-Ins in the Automation menu or Automation settings) to add, remove, and organize your Omni Automation Plug-Ins and connected plug-in locations.

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1. On My [Device]—This is the default local storage location for plug-ins associated with OmniFocus, a folder that lives on your device inside the OmniFocus container. Use the Files app to move plug-in files into this folder.

2. OmniFocus in iCloud Drive—With iCloud Drive set up on your device, OmniFocus can use its application folder there to sync plug-ins between your various devices and the cloud. Note that plug-in files are stored separately from your OmniFocus sync database and they must be managed separately. iCloud Drive is not capable of syncing your OmniFocus database.

3. Custom Locations—Beyond the two default storage locations above, you can link as many additional plug-in folders as you like. These are regular folders on your device or in the cloud that contain the plug-in files that you want to use in OmniFocus. Once a folder is linked, its plug-ins become available in the Automation menu.

4. Add Linked Folder—Tap to open a file browser for selecting additional plug-in folders that you would like to link to OmniFocus.

5. Unlink—Tap to remove a custom location's association with OmniFocus. This removes the folder and its contents from the Plug-Ins screen and Automation menu, but does not move or alter its contents in any way. If you change your mind, you can tap Add Linked Folder again to restore it.

6. Plug-In Info—Tap a plug-in's row to show detailed information about the plug-in, including its name, version, author, description, and information about the actions that the Plug-In contains. You can also share the plug-in from this detail view, delete it, or set up keyboard shortcuts for the plug-in's actions.

OmniFocus for the Web

OmniFocus for the Web is a browser-based companion app that works in tandem with OmniFocus for Mac and iOS to provide access to the core features of OmniFocus from any modern web browser. The app is provided as an optional subscription-based add-on to your existing OmniFocus purchase, or as part of an OmniFocus subscription package.

Learn more about subscribing to OmniFocus for the Web here.

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Applications are made more powerful with URL schemes. URL schemes are links that launch an application or kickstart extra functionality. Sometimes even for automating common tasks. In OmniFocus they do a few things: launch directly into a particular view, like Forecast, or add new Stuff from other applications. OmniFocus’s URL Scheme got a major update in April, 2016, with OmniFocus for iOS 2.14. On the Mac, OmniFocus 2.10—launched in June, 2017—includes most of the same functionality.

Automating Task Creation in OmniFocus

There are several ways to add actions to your database—we talk about a few of them on our 3rd party app page specifically about iOS—but a lot more is now possible.

Let’s start with this simple URL:
omnifocus:///add?name=Pick%20up%20milk&note=You%20gotta

We’ve added a basic action to OmniFocus by using these variables:

• name (your action’s name)
• note (an optional note)

That link will work anywhere OmniFocus is installed. The app will launch from Safari, Mail, or any app capable of opening a URL. But a lot more can be done with parameters recently in OmniFocus for iOS 2.14 and OmniFocus for Mac 2.10.

New parameters for the add action:

• attachment (base64 encoded)
• attachment-name (repeated if necessary for multiple files)
• parallel (true or false)
• flag (true or false)
• defer (date and time, like jun 25 8am)
• due (date and time, like jun 25 8am)
• project (case-insensitive match)
• context (case-insensitive match)
• autocomplete (true or false; do children mark project complete?)
• estimate (30m for 30 minutes)
• reveal-new-item (true or false)
• repeat-rule (see here for format information)
• repeat-method (fixed, start-after-completion, or due-after-completion)
• completed (date and time, like jun 25 6pm)

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You can string these parameters together using & as a separator. Spaces and other special characters might need percent-encoding.

Launching directly into Perspectives

Take this scenario:

Each day, Amanda starts a quick review. It helps her prepare for the urgent and hope-to-do tasks. The bulk of this review occurs with the help of an OmniOutliner document on her iPad Pro. In the Outliner document are specific tasks to perform: some in Mail, OmniFocus, and elsewhere.

The Outliner document is a checklist for the daily review but, additionally, also a launchpad. This is where Amanda quickly jumps around by using the URL scheme: she gains focus and saves time by jumping right where she needs to go.

So Amanda stores a few of these URLS in her OmniOutliner document:

omnifocus:///inbox
omnifocus:///flagged
omnifocus:///projects
omnifocus:///tags

For Pro users, custom perspectives work as well. Instead of placing the custom perspective’s title right after omnifocus:///, use perspective/Bills or perspective/Homework.

Handling spaces: make sure you’ve added the HTML entity %20 as a substition for each space!

Launching to Forecast: Past, Today, Soon

You also have direct access to Forecast cells:

omnifocus:///past
omnifocus:///today*
omnifocus:///soon

(Note: the above three URLs work only on iOS.)

If you don’t need specificity, use omnifocus:///forecast. (This one works on both Mac and iOS.)

*A note on the omnifocus:///today link: if the Today setting has been changed in OmniFocus Settings, you’ll head there!

x-callback-url Support

If you’re using an app that supports x-callback-url (Workflow, for example) the callback will include a link back to the created task or parent project.

For example, the following URL:

omnifocus://x-callback-url/add?name=My%20shiny%20new%20%20task&autosave=true&x-success=[source-app]:///

…calls back to the app called source-app with ?result=omnifocus:///task/mbp0SlWkvqq. That URL is a direct link to “My shiny new task”

TaskPaper-Formatted text

In addition to the add action, OmniFocus now supports the TaskPaper format for action interchange. TaskPaper-formatted text can be added to OmniFocus by pasting directly into an outline or by using the URL scheme’s /paste action. To pull OmniFocus data in the Taskpaper format, select Copy from the Share Sheet on iOS or choose Edit ‣ Copy as TaskPaper on Mac.

Copy TaskPaper-formatted text from any other app, paste it where you’d like it in OmniFocus, and bam—you’ve got all of your data. Ken, our CEO, put together this Editorial workflow that takes the currently-selected text in Editorial (with placeholders for template-specific data) and shuttles it over to OmniFocus, perfectly formatted.

Paste has a few extra parameters that can direct the data to a specific spot: Drivers via motherboards.

• target (can be inbox or projects for top-level items; use target=/task/task-id (for a specific action), target=/task/project-name (for a specific project), or target=/folder/folder-name (for a specific folder))
• index (positive integers count forward from beginning, while negative numbers count back from the end of list)
• content (TaskPaper string, the content to paste; without this parameter, OmniFocus captures text from the system clipboard)

If simply activating omnifocus:///paste without any of the above, the clipboard will be parsed and added to your Inbox.

For the most part, OmniFocus lines up with TaskPaper tags. The full gamut of tags that can be used are discussed in this forum thread near the end.

Adding attachments

When adding attachments to new actions, they need to be encoded in Base64. This is easy with Workflow. This shared Workflow takes a file, encodes it, and then sends it over to OmniFocus.

It’s a great way to file a PDF away for review from Mail.