Plug-In: Append to Note Apple Vision Pro

This action will append the provided text to the end of the note of the current task, and includes an option to preface the added text with a localized date/time stamp.

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Append to Note
   


/*{
	"type": "action",
	"targets": ["omnifocus"],
	"author": "Otto Automator",
	"identifier": "com.omni-automation.of.append-to-note",
	"version": "1.5",
	"description": "This action will append the provided text to the end of the note of the current task or project.",
	"label": "Append to Note",
	"shortLabel": "Append to Note",
	"image": "line.horizontal.3.circle"
}*/
(() => {
	var action = new PlugIn.Action(async function(selection, sender){
		// action code
		// selection options: tasks, projects, folders, tags, allObjects
		try {
			var item = selection.databaseObjects[0]
		
			textInputField = new Form.Field.String(
				"textInput",
				null,
				null
			)
		
			checkSwitchField1 = new Form.Field.Checkbox(
				"shouldIncludeTimeStamp",
				"Include date/time stamp",
				true
			)
				
			menuItems = ["Nothing","Single Space", "Double Space","Single Line","Double Line"]
			spacingItems = [""," ","  ","\n","\n\n"]
			menuIndexes = [0,1,2,3,4]

			menuElement = new Form.Field.Option(
				"spacingMethod", 
				"Prepend with", 
				menuIndexes, 
				menuItems, 
				4
			)
			menuElement.allowsNull = false

			inputForm = new Form()
			inputForm.addField(textInputField)
			inputForm.addField(menuElement)
			inputForm.addField(checkSwitchField1)
			
			inputForm.validate = function(formObject){
				inputText = formObject.values['textInput']
				return ((!inputText)?false:true)
			}
			
			formPrompt = "Enter text to append to note:"
			buttonTitle = "Continue"
			formObject = await inputForm.show(formPrompt,buttonTitle)

			var textValue = formObject.values['textInput']
			shouldIncludeTimeStamp = formObject.values['shouldIncludeTimeStamp']
			spacingMethodIndex = formObject.values['spacingMethod']
			if(shouldIncludeTimeStamp){
				timeStamp = new Date().toLocaleString()
				textValue = timeStamp + "\n" + textValue
			}
			prependText = spacingItems[spacingMethodIndex]
			if(app.userVersion < new Version("4")){
				item.appendStringToNote(prependText + textValue)
			} else {
				noteObj = item.noteText
				style = noteObj.styleForRange(noteObj.range)
				newTextObj = new Text(prependText + textValue, style)
				noteObj.append(newTextObj)
			}
		}
		catch(err){
			if(!causedByUserCancelling){
				new Alert(err.name, err.message).show()
			}
		}
	});

	action.validate = function(selection, sender){
		return (
			selection.databaseObjects.length === 1 &&
			selection.tasks.length === 1 ||
			selection.projects.length === 1
		)
	};
	
	return action;
})();