Meeting Notes & OmniFocus Tasks

Action

Posted by @RegularCraig, Last update over 5 years ago

This action takes the content of your draft, parses any lines you have entered beginning with - and sends them as tasks to OmniFocus, then sends the contents of the Draft to the share sheet*, to send to a note app of your choice (I use OneNote).

*I use the Share sheet as OneNote doesn’t yet support URL schemes on iOS

Credit to @clarke for the majority of this action.

Install

Steps

script

// Start every line with a - to denote it as a task

const taskPrefix = "-";

// Function for removing the task prefix
function removeTaskPrefix(s) {
  var f       = (taskPrefix),
      r       = "",
      re      = new RegExp(f,"g"),
      matches = s.match(re);

  if (matches) {
    return s.replace(re,r);
  }
}

// Function to perform the callback url
function doCallbackURL(url, params) {
  var cb = CallbackURL.create();
  cb.baseURL = url;

  for(var key in params) {
   cb.addParameter(key, params[key]);
  }

  var success = cb.open();
  if (success) {
    console.log("Event created");
  } else {
    console.log(cb.status);
    if (cb.status == "cancel") {
      context.cancel();
    } else {
      context.fail();
    }
  }
}

// Scan for the task prefix in the draft
var lines = draft.content.split("\n");

for (var line of lines) {
  // If the line includes the task prefix, 
  // we remove exclude it from the final notes
  if (line.startsWith(taskPrefix)) {

    // Remove the trigger from the line
    var task = removeTaskPrefix(line);

    // OmniFocus URL Action
    doCallbackURL("omnifocus://x-callback-url/paste", {
      "content": task,
      "target": "inbox"
    });
 }
}

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template
[[draft]]

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