From the home screen of Omnifocus on your iPhone, swipe down and you’ll see a toolbar at the top. Tap on Settings and scroll down and go into the Reminders setting. Turn on Reminders Capture and select your newly created Reminders list from the options. Invoke Siri and ask it to remind you of something. OmniFocus and the Siri Watch Face. With watchOS 5, OmniFocus can use Siri Shortcuts to suggest relevant activities that appear on the Siri face of your Apple Watch. As with shortcuts on iOS, these suggestions occur automatically based on how you use the. Learn how to use Siri to quickly and conveniently capture actions, create projects and access information stored in OmniFocus. For more videos visit: http://. OmniFocus for iOS offers a Reminders Capture feature on Siri-compatible devices, which will import information from Apple’s Reminders app. This includes items dictated using Siri into the Reminders app (hereinafter referred to as “reminders”). This session builds on the foundation of Automating OmniFocus 3 Using Siri Shortcuts: Basics and Automating OmniFocus 3 Using Siri Shortcuts: Beyond the Basics. We’ll delve into more elaborate workflows, including those that involve multiple apps and online services.
- If you have attended my workshop on OmniFocus then I hope the following resources will be useful to you!
Inside OmniFocus – this blog is run by OmniGroup and showcases workflows in OmniFocus across the three platforms, you’ll also find two articles by me:
Learn OmniFocus – a great resource created by the lovely Tim Stringer. As well as many workflow videos there are also dives into how to use other applications with OmniFocus, as well videos on how to manage specific areas of your life with OmniFocus. I have created several videos for Tim:
Guided MindDump Shortcut – This Shortcut for iOS prompts you for triggers you have set up to help you remember tasks to add to your OmniFocus. I find this makes it much easier for me to capture those tasks that I might otherwise forget.
Build Your OmniFocus Workflow – This is the book I wrote with the wonderful Ryan Dobson on creating a setup in OmniFocus that works for you.
I don’t have a daily commute but I still find myself in the car having ideas from time to time. I don’t want to lose those ideas, but I shouldn’t be typing into my phone or writing things while I’m driving.
I use Omnifocus as my list manager for Getting Things Done. Naturally, I want to collect things into the Omnifocus inbox as easily as possible. But when I’m in a situation where I can’t use my hands to write or type, I need to do it with my voice.
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Omnifocus Siri Shortcuts
The Setup
Thankfully, the team over at OmniGroup figured out a way to dictate tasks into Omnifocus using Siri. Here’s how to set it up:
Create a new list in Reminders
Open the Reminders app on your iPhone and tap on New List at the top. You can name your new list and also give it a color. I recommend naming it Omnifocus. This will make it easier to manage later.
Turn on Reminders Capture and choose your new list
From the home screen of Omnifocus on your iPhone, swipe down and you’ll see a toolbar at the top. Tap on Settings and scroll down and go into the Reminders setting. Turn on Reminders Capture and select your newly created Reminders list from the options.
Invoke Siri and ask it to remind you of something
That’s it! You’ve got it set up. Now you can invoke Siri and ask it to remind you to do something. Siri will add it to your list in Reminders and Omnifocus will pull the item from the list and add it to your inbox.
Tips for dictating tasks
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If the new list you set up isn’t your default Reminders list, you’ll need to tell Siri where to add the item. “Siri, add… to my
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This is the most common version of dictation that I use with Siri. Since I have my default list selected in Omnifocus, I can simply say “Remind me to take out the trash” and “Take out the trash” ends up in my Omnifocus inbox.
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Omnifocus Ios Siri Install elementary os on mac. Dictating tasks into Omnifocus has made life a lot easier when I’m traveling. I don’t have to worry about getting things off my mind when I’m driving. I can always speak it into Siri to make sure I don’t lose that amazing idea.