![]() You can use these materials to learn how to navigate the app. There are also extensive user guides and video tutorials for the OmniFocus app on the developer’s official website. The customer service is pretty reliable, judging from user reviews across the web. If you’re facing challenges with the OmniFocus app, you can contact the app’s developer directly through email or telephone. A particular feature we liked in the app is the presence of light and dark modes for a user’s convenience. It has that type of elegant and simple interface the Apple ecosystem is famous for. In terms of user-friendliness, the OmniFocus app has a stellar score. (Image credit: OmniFocus) OmniFocus: Interface and use They include customizing your home screen and sidebar to your unique tastes and integrations with external applications. Some features on the OmniFocus aren’t available on the free trial version but only for paid subscribers. This system is encrypted to prevent malicious actors from snooping on your schedule. The OmniFocus app has a syncing system for every user, enabling any change you make to be reflected on all your devices and the web interface. This feature helps you stay focused on one set of tasks at a time instead of multitasking, which can bring about distractions. Afterward, you can organize projects into individual folders. On the OmniFocus app, you can group actions under individual Projects to help you keep tabs on them. Likewise, you can set unique tags for every action that'll help you sort them out without stress. You can also add notes to every action to provide explanations. You can set a due date and a reminder so that the app sounds an alarm on your device at the set time. Select the script you set up in first step.After adding an action, you can do a lot more with it. – A list of available folder action scripts should pop up. – Right-click on your new folder and look for a command in the contextual menu named “Folder Actions Setup…” and select it Thus the path is: Dropbox/PlainText/OmniFocus – create a dedicated folder into Plaintext subfolder (in Dropbox) I created an “OmniFocus” one into “PlainText”. ![]() – copy the script ~/Library/Script/Folder Action Scripts Both for Things and OmniFocus, follow these steps on your Mac: Setting up the script is fairly simple, as it revolves around the creation of a subfolder in PlainText’s Dropbox folder and assigning a Folder Action to it. The scripts: OmniFocus version - Things version PlainText for iOS (or any other Dropbox-based text editor that allows folder navigation and sync on edit, we just like PlainText) Today, thanks to the efforts of our good friend Gianni Rondini we’re featuring an interesting way to add tasks (with optional notes) to Things and OmniFocus for Mac using Dropbox and HogBay Software’s PlainText, inspired by Elastic Thread’s method to control your Mac using Dropbox.Ĭheck out the instructions and download links after the break. You can use the service to sync bookmarks and passwords across devices and computers, store music libraries, even control your Mac using Applescript and Folder Actions. Or maybe you can’t afford paying for multiple mobile versions of the same app and you just use the desktop application.īut you’re a great Dropbox fan, and we’ve shown you many creative uses of Dropbox in the past. OmniFocus and Things come with beautiful and useful mobile applications for iPhone and iPad, but sometimes you just want to have more control over how tasks are added to their databases.
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