#Omnifocus for windows full#
To get around this, I have a custom ‘Maximise’ macro set up in Keyboard Maestro that simply resizes the window to take up the full screen and shows each of these items.īelow you can see these ‘Show in Project’ and ‘Maximise Window’ automations in action: Open New OmniFocus Window In addition, it doesn’t have a toolbar, inspector, or sidebar, which for planning and tweaking is not optimal! When I do open a new window using the above action, Quick Open, or some other way, it is usually the same size as the window that created it: if I’m opening it from a custom perspective, it’s about a sixth of the screen. (I have it set to open in a new window, but that is optional.) Maximise Window This opens the selected task in the Projects view and focuses on that project. To help with this I’ve created a simple ‘Show In Project’ Plug-In and assigned this to a keyboard shortcut. The second action is an AppleScript, which runs the Keyboard Maestro macro with the given trigger value: Show In Projectįrom my dashboard view, I will sometimes see a task and want to view or edit its project. The first action is a list filter (shown below), which allows me to select either ‘Personal’ or ‘B&C’ to use as the trigger value for the Keyboard Maestro macro.
I’ve set up a custom workflow with two steps: (Note that I have two slightly different versions of my dashboard (personal and work) and so, by using the %TriggerValue% variable in a couple of places, I get a little extra flexibility without having to create two separate macros.)Īlfred is my app launcher of choice and I’ve recently acquired the PowerPack. The actions for the last step look something like the below.
#Omnifocus for windows download#
I won’t reproduce the entire Keyboard Maestro macro here (for brevity) but if you’re interested you can download it to take a closer look. This uses the combined powers of Keyboard Maestro and Alfred, although a keyboard shortcut or other macro trigger would likely work just as well.
Launching the dashboard ultimately looks like this: So, even though I’m focusing more on the structural setup with this short series, I think it’s time to introduce a few tiny sparks of automation magic to this setup. Managing this many perspective windows manually would be a recipe for madness.
#Omnifocus for windows series#
So, over this week, I’m concentrating on the more foundational, structural side of things, like projects, tags, and perspectives.Īt this point we’ve covered my main ‘dashboard view’, and a series of other custom perspectives. That session will focus on the magic of Omni Automation (✨!). In the lead-up to my Learn OmniFocus workflow session, I wanted to share some of the nitty-gritty details of how I manage my tasks with OmniFocus.