![]() ![]() Or, there could be a way to send an action quickly to OmniFocus’ cloud server, without having to open OmniFocus at all. And as much as I love the iOS versions of OmniFocus, there’s always something that bothers me when I’m in a hurry but I need to get some actions saved quickly: as others have outlined before, I think I’d really enjoy a “mini OmniFocus” that’s exclusively aimed at entering tasks in seconds without loading the entire database. That’s an interesting concept: as OmniFocus can be integrated with OS X, accessed to from a web browser or even linked to by other apps, there are ways to quickly get items into it without following the usual pattern of opening the app + writing down a new action, or launching the desktop Quick Entry window manually. Over the past weeks, however, rather than reading tutorials on how to get the most out of OmniFocus or learning about other users’ setups (something that I usually love to do, by the way, as my Instapaper queue can prove), I decided to play around with tools and utilities provided by The Omni Group to customize the way you can get actions into OmniFocus without actually using OmniFocus. With an update to the iPhone app around the corner and a major 2.0 update for the Mac coming out sometime in the next months, there’s plenty of features to look forward to. If you’ve been reading MacStories in the past few months, you know we care about the latest OmniFocus updates and new features implemented by the developers, but more importantly we, like many others, have fallen in love with the iPad version of OmniFocus, which contrary to expectations has turned out to be a great portable counterpart that retains most of the functionalities of the desktop OF without sacrificing usability – actually adding new intuitive schemes, navigation options, and more. It’s not possible to get a link back to the original message, but it’s still outrageously helpful.It is no secret I’m a big fan of The Omni Group’s OmniFocus for Mac and iOS, as over time it has become my “trusted system” (as people like to call great applications you can rely on nowadays) to organize actions (tasks), contexts and, in general, stuff I have to do and don’t want to forget about. The server takes the subject and body, puts them in an action, and wedges it right in to the database in your Sync Server account. Mail Drop is simple: forward on or create new emails that you’d like to show up in your OmniFocus Inbox to a specific email address. The Omni Sync Server has a very helpful feature: Mail Drop. Includes a link back to the original message. And clipping is simple: Control-click a message and choose Send to OmniFocus. There are so many features in the last three clients that naming would be futile, but Postbox adds a few more. Postbox.appĪnd to round out the OS X mail clients, meet Postbox. But it’s really simple: simply control-click a message and choose Create OmniFocus Task. You can read all about it in Airmail’s support article. Similar to MailMate, AirMail has its own integration with OmniFocus that works great. And it clips to OmniFocus 2 quite nicely here’s how. ![]() Mailplane is a Gmail- (or Google Apps) specific app that combines the native web experience with OS X niceties. Hitting a keystroke with the latest version (MailMate is progressing towards 2.0, and beta builds are available for download) pops up a pre-filled Quick Entry window with an action title and note. It’s advanced, and the developer has built-in support for many different apps: both text-editors and task managers. MailMate is a keyboard-centric, markdown-supporting, super-smart client for OS X. Make sure to have a Clippings Shortcut set up. In macOS 10.14, Mojave, Clip-O-Tron isn’t needed. In some earlier versions of macOS, a helper app ( Clip-O-Tron) was needed to help with the process. The email client bundled with OS X is able to send over the whole message - it even links back to the original message. Triaging email into OmniFocus can be quick and easy, and that’s what we’re going to accomplish here with helper tools. Someone came up with a really good idea a long while ago: processing email into actions-and consolidating all your actions into just one inbox-can bring about piece of mind. Let’s just get this out of the way - email is required for work (and usually personal) life, and a lot of the time it comes with actionable items. Email is a necessary component of any todo app ![]()
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