Omni Automation in OmniOutliner
OmniOutliner is a flexible application for creating, collecting, and organizing information. It is one of four productivity applications by The Omni Group for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Whether you’re keeping track of tasks for a project or putting together an outline for a book or research paper, OmniOutliner has everything you need to get the details just right.
The built-in Omni Automation support in OmniOutliner enables you to streamline, customize, and automate the creation and interacton with your outline documents — to make OmniOutliner work the way that works best for you.
| Video: Convert Outline to Project |
| This Omni Automation Voice Control command uses the data from the outline document to construct a new project in OmniFocus. |
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Resources
ⓘ To navigate to the various pages of this section, use the Navigation Overlay that can be summoned via the navigation overlay menu (☰ <- top left of this page). Additionally, the Navigation Overlay may be summoned/dismissed using these keyboard shortcuts: Control-Option-N (⌃⌥N) and Control-Option-C (⌃⌥C)
Important topics and starting-points:
The “Automation Controls” section provides details of how to enable the automation controls in OmniOutliner.
The “Script Security” section provides details of how to enable the execution of remote scripts (like those from this website) in an Omni application.
(🔰1) • The “Big Picture” section provides a high-level overview of how Omni Automation is integrated in OmniOutliner.
(🔰2) This website offers a step-by-step hands-on tutorials for learning the basics of Omni Automation support in OmniOutliner on macOS.
The “Scripting Dictionary (API)” details all of the classes, functions, and properties used to automate OmniOutliner.
Using Omni Automation, you can both automate and extend the abilities of OmniOutliner. The Plug-in Collection contains numerous plug-ins you can review and download and easily install. Or use the OmniOutliner Plug-In Template Generator to quickly create your own plug-in
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