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Posted by Amontillado
Jan 7, 2019 at 12:55 AM

I think I’ve learned something new today.

One of the very few complaints I’ve had about OmniFocus is the everything-in-one-basket approach. I have writing projects I start that never get off the ground. Sometimes I want to have a to-do list for that project, but if it gets abandoned, I don’t want stuff cluttering up my OF database.

You can export your main OmniFocus database to an OmniFocus format file. Double clicking it in the Finder will open it. I don’t think the automatic backup feature works and it doesn’t sync with Omni’s sync server, but that’s ok.

I think this is the feature I’ve been looking for. Now I have a template in DEVONthink to create an empty OF todo list.

Hopefully I’m not missing some obvious downside.

Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 7, 2019 at 10:44 AM

If you have MindNode you can create a project outline, with notes, etc. Save that as a template for your project—in DEVONthink or wherever. When you need to use it, open it in MindNode, select the main node, then click the Share Sheet and choose Export to OmniFocus. The hierarchy will be imported to the OmniFocus inbox and can be added to another project or drag the parent task to the Project perspective to initiate a new project.

Posted by Amontillado
Jan 7, 2019 at 07:39 PM

Thanks, Paul, that’s a great suggestion. It works perfectly.

OmniFocus for IOS apparently doesn’t have the ability to open a backup or foreign database, so that makes my idea less than ideal.

I haven’t experimented with it yet, but I see OmniFocus will also import an OmniFocus document. That might be another way to make a template.

Paul Korm wrote:
If you have MindNode you can create a project outline, with notes, etc.
> Save that as a template for your project—in DEVONthink or wherever.
> When you need to use it, open it in MindNode, select the main node,
>then click the Share Sheet and choose Export to OmniFocus. The
>hierarchy will be imported to the OmniFocus inbox and can be added to
>another project or drag the parent task to the Project perspective to
>initiate a new project.

Posted by J J Weimer
Jan 8, 2019 at 07:35 PM

Unless I am mistaken, exporting OF3 exports the entire database. I see no way to export just a Project or a Folder.

Amontillado wrote:
> >I haven’t experimented with it yet, but I see OmniFocus will also import
>an OmniFocus document. That might be another way to make a template.

Posted by Amontillado
Jan 9, 2019 at 04:17 AM

True, but you can delete everything you don’t want from the exported file.

J J Weimer wrote:
Unless I am mistaken, exporting OF3 exports the entire database. I see
>no way to export just a Project or a Folder.
> >Amontillado wrote:
>>
>>I haven’t experimented with it yet, but I see OmniFocus will also
>import
>>an OmniFocus document. That might be another way to make a template.
>

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