Set task_name to get name of my_selection Set my_selection to value of item 1 of my_sel This is the underlying AppleScript: tell application "OmniFocus" For ideas I’m not so sure about, I prefer to append them as text to an Ideas.txt file I keep in Dropbox as an “everything bucket” for inspiration. Based off the same AppleScript, I have created a Keyboard Maestro macro to create a new text file for each processed task this is for ideas I know will turn out to be single, standalone articles. I store all my notes in a single Apps/ directory on my Dropbox. Like I said, most of the time those ideas are for new articles.
Until those ideas become actionable items, I send them to a text file so I can elaborate on them and see if they can evolve. Typically, when I decide to go through my OmniFocus inbox, I find a lot of tasks that are actually ideas of things I want to do or write. The script is meant for how I use OmniFocus hopefully you’ll find it useful as well.
I have created a simple AppleScript to send the selected OmniFocus task to a text file. However, I also find the process of manually going through that information beneficial to my workflow: it allows me to mentally and practically separate actionable items (tasks) from things to read and things to write (Instapaper material and my future articles, essentially). The app’s Quick Entry panel is so easy to invoke and so well-integrated with core parts of OS X that, most of the time, I find myself clipping information that shouldn’t be into OmniFocus at all.
I used to save favorite tweets into it, too. I save a lot of stuff into OmniFocus: bits of text, URLs, emails.
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