Below you’ll find a meticulously crafted collection of shortcuts for OmniFocus and complementary apps. Each one has been designed and tested to work out of the box, whether or not you know anything about Shortcuts, though we can’t guarantee every one will work perfectly with your setup. More advanced users may choose to fine-tune them.
OmniFocus Shortcuts Directory
Shortcuts bring convenience and consistency to OmniFocus across all your Apple devices.
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Featured Shortcuts
Point your camera at a page of notes or choose an image, and this shortcut extracts the action items and adds them to OmniFocus, grouped by heading. Requires Apple Intelligence.
Describe an action in your own words, and this shortcut adds it to OmniFocus with the title, note, dates, estimated duration, project, tag, and flag filled in. Requires Apple Intelligence.
Capture Shortcuts
Creates an OmniFocus action to contact a person or organization.
Creates an OmniFocus action from the selected message in Apple Mail for Mac.
Creates an action referencing the current web page in Safari.
Point your camera at a page of notes or choose an image, and this shortcut extracts the action items and adds them to OmniFocus, grouped by heading. Requires Apple Intelligence.
Describe an action in your own words, and this shortcut adds it to OmniFocus with the title, note, dates, estimated duration, project, tag, and flag filled in. Requires Apple Intelligence.
Brings OmniFocus to the foreground, launching it if necessary, then opens Quick Entry.
Planning Shortcuts
Creates a sequential action group with a numbered series of actions.
Adds a progress action to the project you choose to help keep the project moving forward.
Creates a project, adds a repeating progress action, then opens the project.
Creates a note in Apple Notes for the project you choose, with a link to the project.
Creates a Craft document for the project you choose, with links between the document and the project.
Creates a draft in Drafts for the project you choose, with links between the draft and the project.
Navigate Shortcuts
Opens Quick Open, launching OmniFocus if it isn't already running.