All you need to do is highlight the text and images that you want to get into OmniFocus then go into the Services menu and choose OmniFocus: Send to Inbox. You can get information from other applications into OmniFocus by using the Clippings service. (Note these shortcuts assume you’re using the Modern outlining mode, if you’re still using Classic then they are different) Clippings
You can also use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate between tasks until you’re ready to submit them all. Then press Enter to create a new task entry, and repeat. Make sure you’re not in the notes section, then press Shift-Enter, to end entering information on the task. Use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate back and forth between the notes and the task fields.ĭon’t forget that the date fields can take natural language queries like Tomorrow, 2 weeks and so on.įinally, you can add multiple tasks. When you’ve tabbed and got focus on the little note icon, you can press Space to allow you to start typing notes for the task too. Tab will get you around each area of information and of course, the projects and tabs will auto-complete, but there are a few special things worth knowing. When you pop it up, you don’t need to use the pointer at all, it’s possible to use only the keyboard to enter information into each field. You’ll find this on the General sheet in Preferences. This is probably the most apparent and well-known way to get tasks into OmniFocus quickly.įirst, you need to set up a keyboard shortcut to trigger it so you can use it anywhere, at any time. OmniFocus has a built-in quick-entry box.
I recently came across another way that I can use to get some stuff in so I thought I’d round up all the ways you can get things in on the Mac version. OmniFocus has a variety of ways of getting things in, probably more than you realise.
One of the critical factors in building the trust - because you know it’ll be there- is how frictionless it is to get something into it. It’s an essential part of my trusted system.