Keyboard shortcuts for View All/Remaining

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There doesn’t appear to be any shortcuts to toggle between View All / View Remaining tasks in a project.

Is this indeed the case? It’s a function that I use a lot, and I’d prefer not to have to use the mouse.

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At the moment there isn’t a way to change the view filter without using the mouse. There is, however, a feature request for just that, to which I have added your comments. I’d love to see that added as well!

If anyone happens upon this thread and would like to ‘cast your vote’ for this feature, please email us at omnifocus@omnigroup.com so we can be sure to capture your thoughts!

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Hi! Is there any news on this feature request?

All the best!

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Oh, I would love this! VOTE!!!

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I use an Applescript tied to a menu bar icon. It toggles the display state to All, Remaining, Next, and First Available. I used a modification of this script …

I imagine it could be tied to a keyboard shortcut with other apps.

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JJW

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Yes, please!

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I’m wondering if Keyboard Maestro might be of some use here.

Yes, I know it’s more money.

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I want this too!

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Me too. Still looking at other threads to see if this was solved somewhere else.

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Please address this. This is a disability problem, requiring mouse clicks.

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Back again. Still can’t find anything saying this feature has been implemented 10 years after it was requested! I switch views dozens of times per day. Help! Thank you!

[Edit/Update]
I did just find this page:
https://support.omnigroup.com/documentation/omnifocus/mac/2.10/en/menus-and-keyboard-shortcuts/

and it says you can at least open the “View” menu with a shortcut:
Show/Hide View Options (Shift-Command-V)
Open the View options for the current perspective.

But you can’t then use a keyboard click that I can find to select a view. It would be great if “F” was for first available, “A” for Available", “R” was for remaining, and maybe “E” for Everything.

Worse yet, using tab only cycles through the Structure and Mac Layout options, not the view options at the top!

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I agree
There shoul be a shortcut.

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Yes ofcourse

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I came here a few days ago looking to see if such an automation existed. As nothing was available, I realized I could ask ChatGPT to write an AppleScript for me to do this, as OmniFocus supports AppleScript.

I have the script executed through Keyboard Maestro, so I could add a keyboard command. Voila—now I have a keyboard command to toggle between Available and Remaining.

I’m not a programmer, so YMMV, and you should perhaps take this approach with a grain of salt, but it has worked reliably for me:

tell application "OmniFocus"
	tell document window 1 of document 1
		set theContent to content
		set currentFilter to selected task state filter identifier of theContent
		
		-- if currently showing Available, switch to Remaining; otherwise go back to Available
		if currentFilter is "available" then
			set selected task state filter identifier of theContent to "incomplete"
		else
			set selected task state filter identifier of theContent to "available"
		end if
	end tell
end tell
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Make it a shortcut or something that can be controlled via API. Then I could create a generic plugin that would be able to work with perspectives like Tags, Projects and custom perspectives.

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Thanks! I used Automator (using AppleScript) to save as a Quick Action, and then used Keyboard Shortcuts to assign those services to a keyboard shortcut for each. Option-E for Everything, Option-R for Remaining, and Option-A for Available. Thanks!