I am looking for an automated way to retrieve a list of tasks from a certain perspective in Omnifocus 3 for iOS.
Omnifocus on iOS has great integration with Shortcuts (nee Workflow) for inputting tasks, but nothing much for retrieving them. I am in the process of creating a Shortcut that will compile a list of information about my upcoming day (including a weather report, upcoming calendar events, etc) and display that info in a single pdf document. What I am looking for is a way to have Workflow pull all of the tasks from a perspective called āWorkā (which has shows me all tasks from within certain projects that are either due soon or flagged).
Does this exist? I canāt find any automated way to retrieve a list of tasks from Omnifocus on iOS period, but maybe Iām missing some function that is available through x-callback or similar. If not, anybody aware of a workaround?
Apologies if this is a repeat, but I didnāt see any recent posts discussing this topic.Thanks!
Agreed and when you share action groups or projects in general, they donāt include the whole list of included actions. That seems like a glaring ommision.
I recently built one that I trigger by Siri after using multiselect and copy, which starts by asking for input and I paste in the tasks (Shortcuts seems to only grab the URL of the tasks if I use a Get Clipboard action).
It combines the actions with a flat text readout of my calendar events into a note in Agenda. Maybe this might help?
The Fantastical workflow might help? I donāt really understand it, but it seems to take a task out of Omnifocus and add it to Fantastical, so in theory it should be able to do that for a group of tasks? I would also like this, similar to the OP and have the list of tasks from custom perspective emailed to my self (together with my calendar events). I think I may have seen a Siri shortcut workflow to export projects to Agenda, but Iām not sureā¦
Hi @scrollsgeek! I had a closer look, and a few things stand out about how I built this:
It needs access to your calendar
(And this is most likely the issue here) The Agenda URL expects a project called āJournalā to post a note to (projects canāt be created by URL scheme).
This can be fixed by either creating a project in Agenda called Journal or editing the URL (second last step in the Shortcut) to change the project-title= attribute to the name of the project youād like to use (make sure the project titleās name is URL-encoded here, like having %20 for spaces, etc.).
Thanks @heyscottyj āI had a category named ājournalā but no specific project called ājournal.ā Thanks for the tip. This shortcut is just what I needed for my daily review.
Btw, I really appreciate your meeting processor shortcut. It is really useful for dissertation committee meetings.
There are a few versions of the Meeting Processor, so Iām going to do a blog post on the latest (and probably last for awhile) version, which cross-links Agenda and OF content. Currently this is tagged with Backlog in my OF š
Oh goodāI look forward to your next blog post once it escapes the backlog zone. Iām using the version from the February post on learnomnifocus.com. I was just tinkering around with getting it to work with the email app Spark on my coffee break today.
