OmniFocus Entry from GitHub Ticket

On my team we use GitHub for our ticket tracking system as well as our version control. I’m also a heavy user of OmniFocus for to-do management across all areas of my life. Given that combination, it’s probably not surprising to hear that I very often find myself making an OmniFocus task from a GitHub ticket.

So I wrote up a quick little AppleScript to do the job for me. It makes a new OmniFocus inbox entry from a GitHub ticket you are viewing in Safari.

tell application "Safari"

set ticketPage to the document of the front window

set ticketUrl to the URL of ticketPage

set nameArray to my splitText((name of ticketPage), " · ")

set ticketTitle to the first item of nameArray

end tell

tell application "OmniFocus" to tell default document
make new inbox task with properties {name:ticketTitle, note:ticketUrl}
end tell

on splitText(someText, delimiter)
set prevTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to delimiter
set output to text items of someText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevTIDs
return output
end splitText


</noscript>[Once again](/applescripting-itunes-view-artist-on-allmusic/), I’m using [FastScripts](http://www.red-sweater.com/fastscripts/) to kick off the script while viewing a ticket page in Safari. An item (with a link to the original ticket) shows up in my OmniFocus inbox. From there I can then convert it into a project and organize it however I see fit.

This script performs a pretty simple task, but running it several times a day the savings add up.

Sound / video / computer artist and software developer.

Boston, MA