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I’m an admissions counselor at a university and I receive an email everyday telling me to retrieve transcripts from a document delivery service if transcripts were sent the day before. I’ve had a mail rule AppleScript ru…

Allen writes about taking a fresh look at your workflow and using the new features in OmniFocus Pro 3.

David writes about falling in love with tags, and he suggests some good ideas for tags you might use.

With version 3.1, OmniFocus for iOS brings iOS 12 and Siri Shortcuts support, along with a few other improvements.

Drafts 5 was recently updated to version 5.4, which brings a host of new features. While there is support for iOS 12’s Siri shortcuts and all that they have to offer, there are also other important features that have improved the app’s capabilities significantly. Siri & Shortcuts Support Drafts now supports integration with the Shortcuts

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In this episode of Automators David and Rose get nerdy with project templates. They start out with what a project template is and how it can help you, and go through using basic project templates all the way up to more complex options.

Last week AgileTortoise released the latest in my ongoing screencast series on Drafts . This one is all about managing actions.

This evening, we sent out 10,000+ more invitations to help us test OmniFocus 3 for Mac, which should include everyo…

A few weeks ago, I posted about my new two-screen setup. I explained that I have started using the second monitor as a "reference" monitor to the right of my iMac screen. I’ve received emails and questions in the forums about how I manage windows between the screens. I explained in the po

A blog about x-callback-url and url actions to automatize your life with your iOS devices.

Note: The following is a complete update of our original Launch Center Pro guide published in April 2014. It has been rewritten and updated for the latest 2.3 and 2.3.1 versions of Launch Center Pro with new sections, actions, videos, and more. Released in December of 2011, Launch Center (the predecessor to Launch Center Pro)

I have a Magic Trackpad and I know I could be using it better if were to use BetterTouchTool (as David has talked about so often in MPU), but I’m overwhelmed by the options. So I want to know how people use BTT on macOS,…

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Here are a couple of Workflow scripts to fill out Curt Clifton’s project templates on iOS.

Hi All - Wondering if anyone uses Post Haste anymore? I do… weekly… as it creates my folders template structure and docs for the 2 weekly podcasts that I produce. After listening to latest Automaters podcast about emai…

How to Use the New Features in OmniFocus 3 to Give Your Productivity a Boost. Subscribe to Asian Efficiency and stay on top of productivity.

Today Flexibits released Fantastical 2.5 for the Mac . There are several notable new features with the new version including Meetup.com integration and support for sending and receiving time proposals for meetings via Exchange, Google, and iCloud. I run Fantastical on my 27" iMac in

Custom perspectives provide you with a quick and convenient way to tap into your OmniFocus database. Below you'll find examples showing some of the many ways that custom perspectives can be used to quickly and conveniently access the most relevant information from OmniFocus and help ensure ...

@monicarysavy @OmniFocus You would tell Zapier that each time an article comes through on RSS to email it to your O…

@monicarysavy @OmniFocus I haven’t done what you’re describing but assume you could get it to work through a combin…

OmniFocus 3 for iOS is a major update that introduces numerous new features and enhancements. With this major release, OmniFocus gains new capabilities that add efficiency and convenience to managing projects and tasks. Most notably, OmniFocus 3 introduces support for multiple tags and ushers i ...

Learning to use the inspector effectively is one of keys to unlocking OmniFocus' power and flexibility. The inspector allows you to edit details of your OmniFocus projects, groups and actions. It’s key to tapping into the power and flexibility that OmniFocus offers. In this in-depth video y ...

The latest version of OmniFocus for iOS features a UI refresh, JavaScript automation, task sharing, and more.

You are welcome! Thank you! It’s a process. My 2 cents is to try a system and pick the pieces that work for you. I recommend committing to a structure for at least a month. Devonthink has been AMAZING. I wish I had a better answer, but Devonthink is designed the way I think. You can create “groups” or folders for reference and make them as shallow or as nested as you need them to be. I keep there my reading lists, reference material, project support, PDFs and everything that is “not actionable...

A task management software is designed to be helpful. To remove noise from life. But when not organized properly, it can quickly backlash and result in something which adds more overhead than actually…

Welcome to OMNI-AUTOMATION.COM, a resource for the Apple-platform automation support (macOS/iOS/iPadOS) in the apps from The Omni Group.