Agenda and Omnifocus

[Roverandom]

I love Agenda and it has quickly become a part of my workflow. The only thing missing for me is a close integration with Omnifocus. That would make it perfect for me.

[drewmccormack]

Can you give us an idea of the type of integration you would be looking for? Eg ability to add a checklist task to omnifocus? Add a link to an omnifocus item?

I think you can probably integrate a little with the share sheets of the two apps. It put a link to a note in omnifocus, and vice versa.

[mekentosj]

In addition to the questions from Drew, please note that the Talk section of this community has a number of threads discussing how to have Agenda and OmniFocus work together, for example:

My Workflow with Agenda, DevonThink and OmniFocus

As a Pastor, I need to keep lots of information and I need to stay on top of my tasks. For years, I used evernote as a general dumping ground for thoughts, information and data. It also takes links and photos and has a rudimentary task list. Then it changed CEOs, got business centered, raised their price and got very confusing to use. So I moved to DevonThink. DevonThink is a document manager with a stellar search. I would take notes at meeting in ByWord and save the document to DevonThink…

Add todos to OmniFocus

I started with this shortcut for Things and adapted it for OmniFocus: I also improved the shortcut so that it appends the links to the OmniFocus tasks to the end of the note. (It requires plain text instead of rich text now). Here is the link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4745885109084c18afb8b82273d34e73 I’d love to change the links behavior and would place them right in the line where the todo was before. Unfortunately it seems that Agenda doesn’t support replacing a note with a new c…

Omnifocus integration for tasks

it would be incredibly awesome to have the option of selecting which task management platform to use. reminders is a great app, i actually use omnifocus.

[pdeer]

The “Share Note” menu greatly assists my primary workflow (Calendar, OmniFocus, Agenda). Also great to see DevonThink in there. Unfortunately OmniPlan has poor notes capability and I use “Copy as Agenda Link” to add meeting notes to OmniPlan tasks. Would be awesome to see some sort of integration between the two apps.

[Roverandom]

You hit the two forms of integration that came to my mind. I’d love to link Agenda documents to Omnifocus items. Add checklists to Omnifocus would also be cool.

[drewmccormack]

Have you tried the sharing extension for a note? Eg. Cog menu at the bottom to the note, and then pick OmniFocus? I would think you could add a backlink to Omnifocus to the note in that way.

[Roverandom]

Thanks for the tip, works great. Still having a list of tasks as I have a list of appointments and connect it would be even better.

[wrothnie]

This is a trick I learnt from the LearnOmnifocus blog / course.

In the Services menu, there is a service to Send to Omnifocus Inbox.

If you select the part(s) of the note in Agenda that you want to send to Omnifocus, then go up to Agenda in the Menu Bar, hold it down to select Settings / Preferences and then Services.

In Services, select Send to Omnifocus Inbox and a dialogue will be generated like the Omnifocus Quick Entry dialogue.

If you save, the task will be placed into the Omnifocus Inbox. However, you can enter more details like Project and Due Date etc. If you enter the project, the task will be filed in the relevant Project.

In either case, there is a link back to the Agenda note.

Of course, in the MacOS Settings app you can assign a keyboard shortcut to the service.

This trick also works going from an email to Omnifocus. I don’t know a way of linking an email to Agenda to create a new Agenda note to create a link between all 3.

[BruceN]

Omni Automation has an Agnda to Omnifocus plug-in.