README

Introduction

This little handy script allows to export a list of projects into OmniOutliner giving you a bird's eye view of your projects. Inspired by Getting Things Done methodology which references a project list - a physical sheet of paper with the names of your current projects.

Important note: both, OmniFocus and OmniOutliner, require pro versions as I use AppleScript for both which is available only in Pro versions

Features

• selective export:
• choose to export either active, on-hold or every project
• project entries in OmniOutliner are hyperlinks to OmniFocus projects
• in addition to active and on-hold, the following custom statuses are available
• waiting: all available tasks have been assigned wait-for tag (tag which has the word wait in its name)
• stalled (no tags): all remainining tasks have no assigned tags
• stalled (no tasks): there are no remaining tasks
• deferred (tasks): there are no available tasks but there are remaining tasks
• deferred (project): project has a defer date set to future date (when defer date lapses, it remains but it is referred to as expired)
• custom styles bound to function keys:
• F1: green highlight
• F2: orange highlight
• F3: red highlight
• there is a separate column called Root Folder which displays the root folder of the project include a sub-folder in parentheses*
• by default, projects are ordered by Root Folder in ascending manner

Important notice: this script was designed with projects layout in mind where there are root level folders acting as logical grouping .e.g work or home; the sub-folder in the parentheses shows the name of the folder belonging to the second nesting level of folders

OmniFocus 2

This script is meant to be used with OmniFocus 3 version. OmniFocus 3 introduced a breaking change where more than one tag (formerly known as context) could be assigned to a task. At some point, I have upgraded to OmniFocus 3 and tried to provide support for both versions. Unfortunately, it has proven to be too difficulty and I have decided to drop support for OmniFocus 2. The latest commit to support version 2 is https://github.com/alexkuc/omnifocus-projects-script/commit/d3289db5feddf9c520db3bd6436780d2e89d4ed9.

OmniOutliner

I am currently on OmniOutliner 5 though technically script supports previous versions, 3 and 4. However, I do not have these versions locally installed so I cannot guarantee the experience will be bug free. In case you run into issue, please open a new issue so I can investigate and help you.

How do I get set up?

• Copy script to OmniFocus scripts folder
• Drag script's icon to toolbar

Warning: don't forget to set the encoding to MacRoman if you are going to edit the script