I experimented a bit with using Siri on my iPhone to enter tasks to my OF InBox. To do this, I had to go into OF settings and turn on “Reminders”. But this changed my set-up in the Reminders app. Reminders there moved to OF, which I didn’t want.
Is there any way to set things up so I can tell Siri to create a certain task in OF, and a different one in Reminders?
To address this, I’ve created another Reminder list called “Time.” When I want to capture to OF, I say 'Remind me to…" and Siri puts it on the Reminder list, and then OF grabs it and puts it in the InBox.
When I want a real reminder, I say “Remind me on the Time List…” and then Siri sets a reminder that works as expected.
Is there a way to do the opposite? Set it up so that if I say “Remind me to” it goes to Reminders, and use a different voice command to put it in OmniFocus?
Actually, now that I look, the current version of OF2 on the iPhone lets you choose which list OF will read. I’m going to try changing my workflow.
Thanks for asking!
EDIT: Tried it, and it works great. I added a list called “InBox,” assigned OF2 to look at that list under Settings>Reminders.
Now when I want to capture something, I tell Siri “Add to my InBox” and she asks “what should I add?” You can also say “Add XYZ to my InBox” but it’s less fault tolerant than the 2-step approach.
Also, be careful when adding reminders to make calls. Siri will often interpret it as a request to dial. If you say “Add call bank to InBox” Siri will often dial the bank right then.
Very interesting. And if you want to use Siri to set a reminder to go into Reminders, and not OF, how do you say it?
As usual: “Remind me at 10am to check bond futures.”
Or, “remind me in 20 mintues…”
“Just tell me what you want to be reminded about”
“Check bond futures.”
I use a very similar approach: my OF import list on Reminders is called ‘Task’ so I can input actions like ‘Add This to my Task list’.
