VCOF0119

OmniFocus: Append Link to Note

This voice command presents a form interface for entering the title and URL for a link object to be appended to the note of the selected project or task.

NOTE: if a URL has been copied previously to the clipboard, it will be used as the default value in the form fields.

Scope and Syntax

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

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

Requirements

Video: Append Link to Note
Command presents a form interface for entering the title and URL for a link object to be appended to the note of the selected project or task.

Downloads

The voice command code:

Append Link to Note


(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() sel = document.windows[0].selection var items = sel.databaseObjects.filter( item => (item instanceof Project || item instanceof Task) ) if(items.length !== 1){ throw { name: "Selection Issue", message: "Please select a single project or task." } } else { // IF CLIPBOARD CONTAINS URL if(Pasteboard.general.hasURLs){ var aURLstr = Pasteboard.general.stringForType(TypeIdentifier.URL) url = URL.fromString(aURLstr) var aTITLE = url.host var vocalPrompt = "Title and URL for clipboard link have been entered." } else { var aURLstr = null var aTITLE = null var vocalPrompt = "Enter the link title and URL" } // CREATE TEXT FIELD OBJECT linkTitleField = new Form.Field.String( "linkTitle", "Title", aTITLE, null ) linkURLField = new Form.Field.String( "linkURL", "URL", aURLstr, null ) // CREATE NEW FORM AND ADD FIELD inputForm = new Form() inputForm.addField(linkTitleField) inputForm.addField(linkURLField) // VALIDATE USER INPUT inputForm.validate = function(formObject){ linkTitle = formObject.values["linkTitle"] if (!linkTitle){return false} linkURLStr = formObject.values["linkURL"] if (!linkURLStr){return false} url = URL.fromString(linkURLStr) try {url.scheme.length;return true} catch(err){return false} } // DISPLAY THE FORM formPrompt = "Link title and URL:" buttonTitle = "Continue" utterance = createUtterance(vocalPrompt) synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance) formObject = await inputForm.show(formPrompt, buttonTitle) // RETRIVE FORM INPUT linkTitle = formObject.values["linkTitle"] linkURLStr = formObject.values["linkURL"] linkURL = URL.fromString(linkURLStr) // CREATE THE LINK OBJECT noteObj = items[0].noteText linkObj = new Text(linkTitle, noteObj.style) newLineObj = new Text("\n", noteObj.style) style = linkObj.styleForRange(linkObj.range) style.set(Style.Attribute.Link, linkURL) if (noteObj.string.length > 0){noteObj.append(newLineObj)} noteObj.append(linkObj) node = document.windows[0].content.selectedNodes[0] node.expandNote(false) // CONFIRMATION utterance = createUtterance("Link Appended!") synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance) } } catch(err){ if(!err.causedByUserCancelling){ utterance = createUtterance(err.message) synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance) //new Alert(err.name, err.message).show() } } })();

 

 

 

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