Update on Search Omnifocus
I made some updates to the Search Omnifocus Alfred workflow over the last month or so thanks to some user suggestions.
Search Omnifocus update
I made some updates to the Search Omnifocus Alfred workflow over the last month or so thanks to some user suggestions.
Note search
You can search for note contents using .n
.
Recent items
Using .r
will show you the 10 last modified Omnifocus tasks and projects.
You can narrow the search scope to non-completed and modified items with .ra
.
Future updates
Gabs Weatherhead wrote about The Evolution of Omnifocus over at Macdrifter. It’s a good read and a couple of his criticisms, especially regarding comparison with other tasks managers like 2DO, stand out:
it just doesn’t make notes important, it makes them searchable and actionable with special fields for emails, phone numbers, and URLs
This made me think about whether I can update the workflow to support this sort of query. Specifically, can it allow you to search for items that contain:
- an email address
- a phone number
- an image
- a PDF
I think simple queries for email addresses or attached files will work but less sure about phone numbers. I’m going to give it a go anyway. Here’s my idea for the next few updates:
- v1.2.3: ‘search everything’ support (this is a simple change to allow searches to incorporate items in the inbox)
- v1.2.4: ‘search for email address’ support
- v1.2.5: ‘search for attachments’