In the productivity world-and with today’s abundance of technology and apps-the DRY principle can be applied by using scripts that allow you to automate things you would normally do by hand. It’s aimed at reducing repetition in information of all kinds. One of them is the DRY principle: Don’t Repeat Yourself.
Since I switched to OmniFocus earlier this year, I haven’t looked back-I’m even looking forward to a bright future! What is Automation?Īs a former software architect, I used to apply an awful lot of principles, best practices, and design patterns to the systems I had to build. Using tools like OmniFocus and Workflow from DeskConnect, Inc., help me meet those needs. That’s part of the reason why I’m constantly looking to optimize my productivity workflows. Create OmniFocus Project Templates with AppleScript | Colter ReedĬolter shows you how you can build project templates (for OmniFocus but you could also translate this to Things) in AppleScript and offers example scripts too.I don’t like to repeat myself to stay productive.
How to Create OmniFocus Projects with Workflow | Colter Reed Templates and Predefined Lists in Things - Matthew Palmer Create Travel Checklist in Things with AppleScript – Coding Bull Junky Creating Projects with Relative Due Dates in Todoist (Reddit) Automators 1 Screencast: Numbers & Fantastical for Batch Eventsįrom episode 1, Rose demonstrates the numbers sheet and Keyboard Maestro Macro you can use to bulk add lots of similar events to your calendar. The packing list app Rose uses Bookworm – Podcast Book ClubĪ podcast hosted by Joe Buehlig and Mike Schmitz in which they review books.
Workflow: Essay To OmniFocusĭynamic creation of an essay project for OmniFocus Workflow: Essay To Thingsĭynamic creation of an essay project for Things Workflow: OmniFocus Travel Plans | Rosemary Orchard TripList Pro - Packing List Manager
The action group that Rose created in Drafts to enable easy TaskPaper creation and manipulation. In this screencast Rose demonstrates how to use the action group she created for Drafts to create a project for OmniFocus. Take a project with «variables» and replace those with words and create a new project with AppleScript How to Fill Out OmniFocus Project Templates with Workflow | Colter Reed Tweaking OmniFocus: Project Template Applescript - MacSparky Using Drafts 5 Taskpaper with OmniFocus | Rosemary Orchard Screencast: Using Drafts to Create OmniFocus Project Templates
OmniFocusVideo Field Guide - MacSparkyĬontains 45 minutes of material for project templates Populate Template Placeholders in OmniFocus. In this example, David demonstrates how to build a Siri Shortcut Script to create a new project template in OmniFocus. xkcd: AutomationĪ comic showing how you can spend more time automating things than time you gave - but as said in the podcast this isn't always the case! Screencast: Project Planning with MacSparky Links and Show Notes The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?Ī comic demonstrating when automation actually pays off.
While both of them are OmniFocus users, project templates can be used in any task management system - and is something that everyone can use. They start out with what a project template is and how it can help you, and go through using basic project templates all the way up to more complex options. In this episode of Automators David and Rose get nerdy with project templates.