Plug-In: Clipboard Text to Drafts Apple Vision Pro

This plug-in uses the Pasteboard class functions to create a new note with the clipboard text contents in the Drafts application.

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The example image below shows the results of using the Clipboard Objects to Markdown Links plug-in to convert copied OmniFocus objects into markdown links replacing the existing clipboard contents, and then using the Clipboard Text to Drafts plug-in to create a new “draft” with the markdown content:

obects-to-markdown

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Clipboard Text to Drafts
   


/*{
	"type": "action",
	"targets": ["omnifocus"],
	"author": "Otto Automator",
	"identifier": "com.omni-automation.of.clipboard-text-to-drafts",
	"version": "1.1",
	"description": "Creates a new note in the Drafts app with the text contents of the OmniFocus pasteboard.",
	"label": "Clipboard Text to Drafts",
	"shortLabel": "Clip to Drafts",
	"paletteLabel": "Clip to Drafts",
	"image": "list.bullet.clipboard.fill"
}*/
(() => {
	const action = new PlugIn.Action(async function(selection, sender){

		date = new Date()
		dc = Calendar.current.dateComponentsFromDate(date)
		delimiter = "-"
		dateSlug = dc.month + delimiter + dc.day + delimiter + dc.year + " " + dc.hour + ":" + dc.minute

		textInputField = new Form.Field.String(
			"noteTitle",
			null,
			"OmniFocus " + dateSlug
		)

		inputForm = new Form()
		inputForm.addField(textInputField)
		
		inputForm.validate = function(formObject){
			noteTitle = formObject.values['noteTitle']
			return ((!noteTitle)?false:true)
		}
		
		formPrompt = "Title for new draft:"
		buttonTitle = "Continue"		
		formObject = await inputForm.show(formPrompt,buttonTitle)


		noteTitle = formObject.values['noteTitle']
		noteTitle = encodeURIComponent(noteTitle)
		pasteboardString = encodeURIComponent(Pasteboard.general.string)
		
		DraftsURLStr = `drafts5://x-callback-url/create?text=${noteTitle}%0A%0A${pasteboardString}`
		URL.fromString(DraftsURLStr).call(result => {
			console.log(result)
			//--> "790A478C-66D9-4C8D-857D-5910D058C417"
			openDraftURLStr = `drafts5://x-callback-url/open?uuid=${result}`
			URL.fromString(openDraftURLStr).open()
		}, err => {
			new Alert("SCRIPT ERROR", err.errorMessage).show()
			console.error(err.errorMessage)
		})
	});

	action.validate = function(selection, sender){
		return (Pasteboard.general.hasStrings)
	};
	
	return action;
})();