Outlook to Omnifocus, take 8

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This is the 8th installment of my little OmniFocus script which will turn Emails into tasks. I received quite a lot of feedback regarding the Growl integration which was causing problems for many people. Therefore, I have removed growl (if you want growl and take7 was working for you, just don’t upgrade).

Changes:

  • removed Growl support as it was causing more problems than it was worth
  • made deleting old files more resilient

Features:

  • configurable growl notifications (provided by Paul)
  • fix for empty subject lines (provided by Paul and Peter)
  • added mail headers (from, date) to content of the note (provided by Paul)
  • does not rely on a separate jar tool anymore and should therefore be more compatible with older Mac OS versions. (courtesy of someone on the omnifocus forums whos name I forgot unfortunately)
  • configuration options
    • growl enabled
    • delete mail after turning it to an omnifocus task
    • target mail folder for moving the processed mail (note that this does not work in combination with mail deletion, please choose either delete or move)
    • bring omnifocus to the front
    • put cursor into a specific field in the quick entry panel
    • open quick entry panel (or just add the task silently to inbox)

Install instructions:

  1. Double click the zip file to extract it
  2. Copy the contents of the zip file to <userhome>/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Outlook Script Menu Items (you can do this even easier by opening Outlook, selecting the script menu item “About this menu…” and then click “Open Folder”.
  3. that’s it

Note to non-english office users:

Your Outlook Script Menu Items folder is in a different location. Please go the route via “About this menu” explained in point 2!

Usage instructions:

  1. select a mail in outlook
  2. open the script menu and choose  ”Send Outlook to Omnifocus” (see screenshot) or alternatively just press CTRL+O (o, not zero)

Configuration instructions:

So if you want to tweak the settings of the script, bring up the file in the outlook menu items folder and double click it.

This will open AppleScript editor (if it does not, then you can try right click and choose Open with…). In applescript editor you will see a configuration block on the top of the file. Change the values as documented in the script, save it and you should be fine.

Note that a few settings rely on other settings to be configured (i.e. currently omnifocus activation will only be invoked if the quick entry panel is switched on). If you find those restrictions too cumbersome, let me know and I will look into that.

Download

Outlook2Omnifocus-v10.zip

Outlook to Omnifocus, take 7

13
30 days
by in GTD, Mac

This is the 7th installment of my little OmniFocus script which will turn Emails into tasks.

Changes:

  • added support for Growl 1.3 (thanks to John Duprey), if you are using Growl 1.3 please uncomment the following line (by removing the starting “–”)

    -- tell application id "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp"

    (if you cannot find it, search for EDITME GROWL in the source code)

  • added support to move the processed mail to a folder

Features:

  • configurable growl notifications (provided by Paul)
  • fix for empty subject lines (provided by Paul and Peter)
  • added mail headers (from, date) to content of the note (provided by Paul)
  • does not rely on a separate jar tool anymore and should therefore be more compatible with older Mac OS versions. (courtesy of someone on the omnifocus forums whos name I forgot unfortunately)
  • configuration options
    • growl enabled
    • delete mail after turning it to an omnifocus task
    • target mail folder for moving the processed mail (note that this does not work in combination with mail deletion, please choose either delete or move)
    • bring omnifocus to the front
    • put cursor into a specific field in the quick entry panel
    • open quick entry panel (or just add the task silently to inbox)

Install instructions:

  1. Double click the zip file to extract it
  2. Copy the contents of the zip file to <userhome>/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Outlook Script Menu Items (you can do this even easier by opening Outlook, selecting the script menu item “About this menu…” and then click “Open Folder”.
  3. that’s it

Note to non-english office users:

Your Outlook Script Menu Items folder is in a different location. Please go the route via “About this menu” explained in point 2!

Usage instructions:

  1. select a mail in outlook
  2. open the script menu and choose  ”Send Outlook to Omnifocus” (see screenshot) or alternatively just press CTRL+O (o, not zero)

Configuration instructions:

So if you want to tweak the settings of the script, bring up the file in the outlook menu items folder and double click it.

This will open AppleScript editor (if it does not, then you can try right click and choose Open with…). In applescript editor you will see a configuration block on the top of the file. Change the values as documented in the script, save it and you should be fine.

Note that a few settings rely on other settings to be configured (i.e. currently omnifocus activation will only be invoked if the quick entry panel is switched on). If you find those restrictions too cumbersome, let me know and I will look into that.

Download

OutlookToOmnifocus-v9.zip

Outlook to Omnifocus, take 6

3
113 days
by in GTD

This is a new and improved version which fixes problems with senders that don’t have a name.

Features:

  • configurable growl notifications (provided by Paul)
  • fix for empty subject lines (provided by Paul and Peter)
  • added mail headers (from, date) to content of the note (provided by Paul)
  • does not rely on a separate jar tool anymore and should therefore be more compatible with older Mac OS versions. (courtesy of someone on the omnifocus forums whos name I forgot unfortunately)
  • configuration options
    • growl enabled
    • delete mail after turning it to an omnifocus task
    • bring omnifocus to the front
    • put cursor into a specific field in the quick entry panel
    • open quick entry panel (or just add the task silently to inbox)

Install instructions:

  1. Double click the zip file to extract it
  2. Copy the contents of the zip file to <userhome>/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Outlook Script Menu Items (you can do this even easier by opening Outlook, selecting the script menu item “About this menu…” and then click “Open Folder”.
  3. that’s it

Note to non-english office users:

Your Outlook Script Menu Items folder is in a different location. Please go the route via “About this menu” explained in point 2!

Usage instructions:

  1. select a mail in outlook
  2. open the script menu and choose  ”Send Outlook to Omnifocus” (see screenshot) or alternatively just press CTRL+O (o, not zero)

Configuration instructions:

So if you want to tweak the settings of the script, bring up the file in the outlook menu items folder and double click it.

This will open AppleScript editor (if it does not, then you can try right click and choose Open with…). In applescript editor you will see a configuration block on the top of the file. Change the values as documented in the script, save it and you should be fine.

Note that a few settings rely on other settings to be configured (i.e. currently omnifocus activation will only be invoked if the quick entry panel is switched on). If you find those restrictions too cumbersome, let me know and I will look into that.

Download

OutlookToOmnifocus-v8.zip

Eclipse fullscreen mode on 10.7 Lion

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191 days
by in Mac

Oh my god, it is available! There is a plugin for eclipse that makes it fullscreen compatible for Mac OSX Lion (10.7). Find out the details here

http://danielgerber.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/using-eclipse-in-fullscreen-mode-under-mac-os-x-10-7-lion/

In short you only need to add the following update location (http://github.bandlem.com/) via Help->Install new software…

via http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/07/full-screen-support-for-eclipse-on-osx.html

Outlook to OmniFocus, take 5

26
263 days
by in GTD

Hey this is is it, the long awaited updated version with features to spare.

Features:

  • configurable growl notifications (provided by Paul)
  • fix for empty subject lines (provided by Paul and Peter)
  • added mail headers (from, date) to content of the note (provided by Paul)
  • does not rely on a separate jar tool anymore and should therefore be more compatible with older Mac OS versions. (courtesy of someone on the omnifocus forums whos name I forgot unfortunately)
  • configuration options
    • growl enabled
    • delete mail after turning it to an omnifocus task
    • bring omnifocus to the front
    • put cursor into a specific field in the quick entry panel
    • open quick entry panel (or just add the task silently to inbox)

Install instructions:

  1. Double click the zip file to extract it
  2. Copy the contents of the zip file to <userhome>/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Outlook Script Menu Items (you can do this even easier by opening Outlook, selecting the script menu item “About this menu…” and then click “Open Folder”.
  3. that’s it

Note to non-english office users:

Your Outlook Script Menu Items folder is in a different location. Please go the route via “About this menu” explained in point 2!

Usage instructions:

  1. select a mail in outlook
  2. open the script menu and choose  ”Send Outlook to Omnifocus” (see screenshot) or alternatively just press CTRL+O (o, not zero)

Configuration instructions:

So if you want to tweak the settings of the script, bring up the file in the outlook menu items folder and double click it.

This will open AppleScript editor (if it does not, then you can try right click and choose Open with…). In applescript editor you will see a configuration block on the top of the file. Change the values as documented in the script, save it and you should be fine.

Note that a few settings rely on other settings to be configured (i.e. currently omnifocus activation will only be invoked if the quick entry panel is switched on). If you find those restrictions too cumbersome, let me know and I will look into that.

Download

OutlookToOmnifocus-v7.zip

Outlook to OmniFocus, take 4

60
354 days
by in GTD, Mac

This is another update to the previous releases of my Outlook script. The main changes are

  • growl notification (provided by Paul)
  • fix for empty subject lines (provided by Paul and Peter)
  • added mail headers (from, date) to content of the note (provided by Paul)
  • a few optional hooks that you can customize the behaviour of the script

Install instructions:

  1. Double click the OutlookToOmniFocus-v4.tar.gz to extract it
  2. Copy the contents of the zip file to <userhome>/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Outlook Script Menu Items (you can do this even easier by opening Outlook, selecting the script menu item “About this menu…” and then click “Open Folder”.
  3. that’s it

Usage instructions:

  1. select a mail in outlook
  2. open the script menu and choose  ”Send Outlook to Omnifocus” (see screenshot) or alternatively just press CTRL+O (o, not zero)

In case something goes horribly wrong

I obviously dont hope that it does, but please open Console and watch for suspicious messages. Typically this will give you some idea.

Download

Download the file see here: OutlookToOmnifocus-v5.zip see update below

Important

If you have a non-english system then your “Microsoft User Data” folder might use a different localized name. In this case please replace “Microsoft User Data” with the correct folder name (e.b. “Microsoft-Benutzerdaten” if you are using a german system). Thanks to Jens for pointing this out.

Update 24.02.2011

I have updated the script and fixed the Growl integration. This should work now. In addition I have added a couple of CHANGEME comments in order to make it easier to customize the script.

Download the latest file here: OutlookToOmnifocus-v6.zip

Update 17.5.2011

Since I like to share and people were seeing issues, here is the source for the maildecoder java tool.

MailDecoder-src.zip

Update 19.05.2011

Please take a look at http://rainer.4950.net/wordpress/blog/category/gtd/ for the latest version of this script.

TimeTracker 1.3.13 beta

28
397 days
by in Mac, TimeTracker

A new version of TimeTracker for Mac has been released. This is a new years bugfix release which is supposed to fix a few minor issues:

  • fixed issue 91 – the filter was not reapplied if you left TT running past midnight and it showed yesterdays entries in when having the today filter.
  • fixed issue 95 – replaced BWtoolkit styled but broken ok button with std button
  • general UI overhaul where a bunch of small annyoing issues were cleaned up
  • fixed a bug where on new years the last week/this week filters produced empty results

As always you can download it here as well as via the builtin Sparkle updater (you need to have it set to accept beta versions).

Creating OmniFocus tasks in Entourage – take 4

14
424 days
by in GTD, Mac

Omnifocus-1

This is an update for the people who still use Entourage. Just in time for the holidays it now also supports multiple emails (will end up in multiple tasks). In order to use it simply select multiple mails and hit CTRL+O.

Grab it here: EntourageToOmniFocus_v4

Happy holidays

TimeTracker 1.3.12 stable

16
429 days
by in Mac, TimeTracker

This is a release announcement of TimeTracker 1.3.12 stable. This release is more or less the same like 1.3.11 which turned out to be quite good and stable. It only has the following changes:

  • IMPORTANT! requires Mac OS 10.5 or higher
  • Superfluous “;” character in exported CSV

You can download the release here.

Update 5.12.2010

People noticed that previously the newer build was still having 1.3.11 as a version number. This is fixed now. No more update loops. Sorry for the inconvenience.

TimeTracker OSX 1.3.11 beta

2
449 days
by in Mac, TimeTracker

This is a release announcement of TimeTracker 1.3.11. This is a bugfix release with the following changes.

  • IMPORTANT! requires Mac OS 10.5 or higher
  • Fixed issue 79 made build universal again
  • added keyboard shortcut to confirm a change to a recording
  • fixed potential issue with KVO registration
  • fixed issue which would try to pop up an idle warning when an editor window was open
  • fixed issue 76 where deleting a task would not immediately show the task removed

Please let me know if you find any issues, otherwise I will also release it as “stable” in a few days.

You can download the release here.

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