Elixir Radar (Markdown) to OmniFocus

Action

Posted by Robert Rainthorpe, Last update about 4 years ago

Create a Task in OmniFocus for each entry in an Elixir Radar digest

Input is a Draft resulting from calling the Elixir Radar (RTF) Email Import action
on an Elixir Radar email’s Articles section. See that action for more details of the format. Note that only the first link is used currently.

Tasks are left in the OmniFocus add window, ready for confirmation or cancellation.

See script for tags and project options.

Doesn’t support Folders for Projects, sorry.

Install

Steps

script (macOS only)



// change these as required
const tags = "read,elixir,blogs";
const project = "Elixir Radar Reading List";

// I'm a GTD nut so I like a verb. YMMV
const taskNamePrefix = "read ";

// see: https://inside.omnifocus.com/url-schemes
const baseURL = "omnifocus://x-callback-url/add/";
const linkRe = /\[([^\[]+)\]\(([^\[]+)\)/;

// cache for links
var title = "";
var link = "";

// we're going to find one or more links, followed by a description.
// cache the first link, ignore the rest
// when we've got a description, add a Task to Omnifocus
var lines = draft.content.split("\n");
for (var line of lines) {
  // ignore blanks
  if (Boolean(line.trim())) {
    let result = line.match(linkRe);

    if (result) {
      if (title == "") {
        title = result[1];
        link = result[2];
      } // or just skip found links after first one
    } else {
      // check if we're the description
      if (title != "") {
        createOF(title, link, line);
        title = "";
        link = "";
      } // else ignore badly formatted or comment
    }
  }
}

function createOF(name, url, description) {
  var cb = CallbackURL.create();
  cb.baseURL = baseURL;
  cb.addParameter("name", taskNamePrefix + name);
  cb.addParameter("note", url + "\n\n" + description);
  cb.addParameter("tags", tags);
  cb.addParameter("project", project);
  cb.addParameter("parallel", true);

  // open and wait for result
  success = cb.open();
  if (success) {
    console.log("Event created");
  } else {
    // something went wrong or was cancelled
    console.log(cb.status);
    if (cb.status == "cancel") {
      context.cancel();
    } else {
      context.fail();
    }
  }
  success;
}

Options

After Success Default

Notification Info

Log Level Info

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After Success	Default
Notification	Info
Log Level	Info