How do I move items from my inbox on OmniFocus into the assigned project folders?

ikomrad · July 30, 2025, 1:40pm

The Problem

How do I move items from my inbox on OmniFocus into the assigned project folders? I’m triaging my inbox on macOS 15.6 OF v4.6, and I have cleanup configured to cleanup “when switching perspectives”.

Things that I’ve tried

Based on the Web searches that I’ve done, at least one of these should have removed the item(s) assigned to other projects from my Inbox, but they did not work.

Switch to Forcast perspective and back to Inbox
cmd + k
Quit and re-launch OF

References

Ideas?

What else can I try? I’m going to have to leave my Mac for a while since I’m leaving home to get to work in a few mins, but I’ll read any ideas when I get back.

I’ll try rebooting my Macbook then, too.

timstringer · July 30, 2025, 7:04pm

I recommend checking the “Clean up inbox items which have” setting in Settings > Organization. For example, if it’s set to “Both a project and a tag”, items will remain in the inbox until both the Project and Tag field are populated.