episode 5: Project Templates
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. While both of them are OmniFocus users, project templates can be used in any task management system - and is something that everyone can use.
Links and Show Notes The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?A comic demonstrating when automation actually pays off.
xkcd: AutomationA comic showing how you can spend more time automating things than time you gave - but as said in the podcast this isn't always the case!
Screencast: Project Planning with MacSparkyIn this example, David demonstrates how to build a Siri Shortcut Script to create a new project template in OmniFocus.
OmniFocusVideo Field Guide — MacSparkyContains 45 minutes of material for project templates
Populate Template Placeholders in OmniFocus—curtclifton.netTake a project with «variables» and replace those with words and create a new project with AppleScript
How to Fill Out OmniFocus Project Templates with Workflow | Colter Reed Tweaking OmniFocus: Project Template Applescript — MacSparky Using Drafts 5 Taskpaper with OmniFocus | Rosemary Orchard Screencast: Using Drafts to Create OmniFocus Project TemplatesIn this screencast Rose demonstrates how to use the action group she created for Drafts to create a project for OmniFocus.
OF Taskpaper | Drafts Action DirectoryThe action group that Rose created in Drafts to enable easy TaskPaper creation and manipulation.
Workflow: Essay To OmniFocusDynamic creation of an essay project for OmniFocus
Workflow: Essay To ThingsDynamic creation of an essay project for Things
Workflow: OmniFocus Travel Plans | Rosemary Orchard TripList Pro - Packing List ManagerThe packing list app Rose uses
Bookworm – Podcast Book ClubA podcast hosted by Joe Buehlig and Mike Schmitz in which they review books.
How to Create OmniFocus Projects with Workflow | Colter Reed Templates and Predefined Lists in Things — Matthew Palmer Create Travel Checklist in Things with AppleScript – Coding Bull Junky Creating Projects with Relative Due Dates in Todoist (Reddit) Automators 1 Screencast: Numbers & Fantastical for Batch EventsFrom episode 1, Rose demonstrates the numbers sheet and Keyboard Maestro Macro you can use to bulk add lots of similar events to your calendar.
Create OmniFocus Project Templates with AppleScript | Colter ReedColter shows you how you can build project templates (for OmniFocus but you could also translate this to Things) in AppleScript and offers example scripts too.