Omni Automation Vids

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A collection of short video tips, tricks, and “how-to’s” for automating the productivity applications from the Omni Group. [Shortcut: Play Latest Episode]

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Episodes:

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1. What is Omni Automation? (03:00)(Podcasts) A short overview of Omni Automation: what it is, and what it does, and how can you take advantage of powerful tools that come with every app from The Omni Group.
2. Installing and Managing Plug-Ins (05:00)(Podcasts) A short overview of how to install and manage Omni Automation plug-ins.
3. (Quick Tip) Getting to the Points (01:00)(Podcasts) A short example demonstrating the use of the Writing Tools of Apple Intelligence with OmniFocus.
4. (Quick Tip) Seeing into the Future (01:00)(Podcasts) A short example demonstrating the use of OmniFocus on the Apple Vision Pro.
5. (Quick Tip) Siri and Omni Automation (01:38)(Podcasts) A short video demonstrating how Siri can launch an OmniFocus automation shortcut using either “Type to Siri” or “Vocal Shortcuts.”
6. (Quick Tip) Sharing Attachments (01:00)(Podcasts) A short video demonstrating sharing an OmniFocus attachment with Apple’s Freeform application.
7. (Quick Tip) Inquiring Minds Want to Grow (01:20)(Podcasts) A short video demonstrating an Omni Automation plug-in that renders the current OmniGraffle canvas to a page in your Obsidian Knowledge Base.
8. (Quick Tip) The “OmniGraphic Replicator” (03:00)(Podcasts) A short video demonstrating the conversion of an OmniGraffle document into an automated template.
9. (Quick Tip) Playground to Canvas (02:05)(Podcasts) A short video showing the creation and use of a Shortcuts workflow for placing a shared image onto the current OmniGraffle canvas.
10. (Quick Tip) Recipe for Success (01:46)(Podcasts) A short video demonstrating how to generate and add a recipe task to OmniFocus using the ChatGPT Compose feature of the Writing Tools of Apple Intelligence.
11. (Quick Tip) Items Due Today (01:07)(Podcasts) A short video demonstrating Siri launching a Shortcut that uses the Speech API support in Omni Automation to recite, in order, a list of the OmniFocus tasks due today.
12. (Quick Tip) The AI “Step-List” Generator (01:33)(Podcasts) A short video demonstrating the creation of a “Step-List” outline from an Apple “Writing Tools” ChatGPT query.
13. (Quick Tip) Life in Circles (00:30)(Podcasts) While not specifically about Automation, this thirty-second video identifies the various status circles used by OmniFocus.
14. (Quick Tip) Read Outline Rows (01:28)(Podcasts) A short video demonstrating a plug-in using text-to-speech to read either the text of the selected rows, or the entire OmniOutliner outline. Provides an option to automatically include the recitation of the row’s note.
15. (Quick Tip) Show Latest Active Object (02:09)(Podcasts) A short video walk-through demonstrating the use of macOS Keyboard Navigation with an Omni Automation plug-in for OmniFocus.