OmniFocus clippings from Firefox

1/08/2008
Summary: In which Martin has created an AppleScript to remedy Firefox’ poor support for OmniFocus‘ “Send to inbox” hotkey. This is a lengthy post with lots of dreary explanations, so you might want to jump to the finished script if you don’t care about how stuff works.

Edit: An alternative version brings up your Quick-add dialog and populates it. Check this comment if that sounds more appealing.

Fire Omni Quick

To get this to work you’ll need Quicksilver. But you’ve got that haven’t you? Sure you do.

I’m trying out OmniFocus nowadays for my obsessive-but-not-GTD-level organizing needs. It’s still a tad overkill for what I need, but they have the best iPhone sync so far, and I assume I’ll just be assimilated into the cult of David Allen sooner or later so what the hell.

One of the things I like about OmniFocus is the “Create Clipping” functionality. OmniFocus allows you to at a keystroke (♥) send whatever text is currently selected to your Inbox as a clipping.
However this isn’t working in Firefox 3. Mozilla practically stripped all the scripting abilities in v2 and i suppose that’s what goes for a “feature” nowadays. This needs some serious fixing. Let’s get our hands not-really-dirty-but-maybe-a-bit-smudged.

Edit: I’ve updated the script with a new version that also grabs the URL of the clippings origin.

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