VCOF0021

OmniFocus: Show Latest Project

Here’s a useful command that will focus the window on the most recently added project.

Scope and Syntax

Language: English (United States 🇺🇸 · Great Britain 🇬🇧 · Australia 🇦🇺 · Canada 🇨🇦) • Scope: OmniFocus

Command phrase variations (words in [brackets] are optional):

• “[Show] Latest Project”
• “[Show] Most Recent Project”

Requirements

• Application: OmniFocus 4
• System: macOS 12.3, iOS 15, iPadOS 15, visionOS

Video: Show Latest Project/Title Case Name

Uses the voice command to set the name of items to title case.

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Downloads

• ⇩ COMMANDS-FILE OmniFocus 4.0 (macOS)
• ⇩ SHORTCUT-LINK (“Show Latest Project”) (iOS · iPadOS · visionOS)

Voice Command Code

Here’s the Omni Automation code for the command:

Show Latest Project
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(async () => {
	try {
		function createUtterance(textToSpeak){
			langCode = Speech.Voice.currentLanguageCode
			voiceObj = Speech.Voice.withLanguage(langCode)
			utterance = new Speech.Utterance(textToSpeak)
			utterance.voice = voiceObj
			utterance.rate = Speech.Utterance.defaultSpeechRate
			return utterance
		}
		synthesizer = new Speech.Synthesizer()

		filteredProjects = flattenedProjects.filter(project => {
			status = project.status
			return (status === Project.Status.Active || status === Project.Status.OnHold)
		})
		if(filteredProjects.length === 0){
			throw {
				name: "Missing Resource",
				message: "There are active or on-hold projects in the database."
			}
		} else {
			filteredProjects.sort((a, b) => b.task.added - a.task.added)
			latestProject = filteredProjects[0]
			projectID = latestProject.id.primaryKey
			document.windows[0].perspective = Perspective.BuiltIn.Projects
			document.windows[0].focus = []
			document.windows[0].focus = [latestProject]
			URL.fromString(`omnifocus:///task/${projectID}`).open()
		}
		
		utterance = createUtterance("Done!")
		synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance)
	}
	catch(err){
		utterance = createUtterance(err.message)
		synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance)
		//new Alert(err.name, err.message).show()
	}
})();