
OmniFocus 3.5 adds two new Shortcut actions.
- Shortcuts — Added two new Shortcut actions, Add Item and Add TaskPaper, which duplicate the functionality of actions that have been built into Shortcuts since its introduction, but are maintained by Omni.
- Add Item Shortcut Action — This action takes text from input and sets the item’s name, and allows choosing a target project (or Inbox) and setting various metadata. It returns the resulting OmniFocus item, which you can pass to Show in OmniFocus or otherwise continue your workflow.
- Add TaskPaper Shortcut Action — This action takes TaskPaper-formatted text input and adds to a target specified anywhere in the Inbox or Projects hierarchy. It returns an array of the resulting OmniFocus items. If you add nested items using this action, only the top-level items are returned.
- Siri — Siri can now show completed tasks in OmniFocus using the built-in intent: “Show me my completed tasks using OmniFocus”.
- Background Activity — Fixed a condition that could cause a “Threading Policy Violation” when OmniFocus was foregrounded.
- Calendar — Worked around a bug in Calendar that would result in a crash when dragging in new items from OmniFocus.
- Completed Perspective — Fixed a problem grouping items that were completed by completing their parent.
- Crash — Fixed a crash acting on an OmniFocus notification with some kinds of content already visible in OmniFocus.
- Crash — Fixed a crash deleting items.
- Crash — Fixed a crash related to sync preferences.
- Crash — Fixed a crash switching perspectives while editing the note of an item that no longer matches the current perspective.
- Crash — Fixed a crash when pressing return on external keyboard quickly after quick entry.
- Crashes — Fixed several of our more common crashes in OmniFocus 3.4.x.
- Drag and Drop — Fixed a problem where selection highlight would disappear after a drag and drop in a long list of items.
- Drag and Drop — Improved drag and drop targeting in situations where indentation isn’t allowed.
- Image Attachments — Fixed several problems with the image attachment viewer.
- Inspector — Fixed a problem where the date picker rows in the inspector could stay expanded when changing selection, resulting in unintended date assignment.
- Inspector — Fixed a problem where the note tab icon wouldn’t reflect the state of the selected item.
- New Items — Fixed problems with metadata being lost on save when creating new items in compact.
- Notifications — Fixed a problem where the relevant item wasn’t scrolled into view when acting on a notification.
- Outline — Fixed a problem where the metadata fields under action titles and their separator dots could sometimes overlap.
- Outline — Fixed a problem where the outline wouldn’t scroll to keep the selected item in view when changing selection with the buttons in the inspector or an external keyboard.
- Perspective — Fixed a problem where you could save a new perspective before adding a title.
- Perspectives — Fixed a crash when editing a new perspective.
- Perspectives — Fixed a problem where perspectives which grouped and sorted entire projects by due date would use the dates of dropped children for sorting.
- Perspectives — Fixed a problem with filtering and children of due and/or flagged items in perspectives that group and sort entire projects.
- Share Extension — Fixed a problem where attachments sent via the Share extension would be lost when multiple external items were imported.
- Share Extension — Fixed problems where you couldn’t assign a tag or project whose name was duplicated elsewhere in your database.
- Summary — Fixed a problem where assigning a project to an action would “resurrect” a date which you cleared previously.
- Sync — Fixed a problem that would result in a “Reference of object which could not be resurrected TaskToTag” error message.
- URLs — Fixed a problem opening links to tags.
- URLs — Fixed a problem where tapping an
omnifocus:///search
URL would populate the search field, but not trigger the search. - URLs — Fixed a problem where urls that opened tasks wouldn’t work from notes in some inspector presentations.
- URLs — Fixed an extra animation problem with
omnifocus:///paste
URLs. - Show in OmniFocus — In this Shortcuts action, folders are now sorted in the same order as they are in your database.
- Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Thanks for sending in feedback!