OmniFocus from the command line

So I decided to out try OmniFocus, after enough recommendations from people that seem to get a lot more done than I do. It is a truly great program, and my copy of the GTD book is on its way.

There was one tiny annoyance for me which is that I spend a fair amount of time running Linux on either my laptop or my workstation, away from OmniFocus. And now that I got hooked on dumping ideas and todos via Ctrl-Option-Space, I want something similar there. OmniFocus has an option to add an extra rule to Mail.app that keeps an eye on carefully constructed emails, so I have it look for email messages from myself whose subject starts with “–omnifocus”. Python has a nice smtp library, so this all makes for a nice 5-liner I call rememberto. Here’s the (public-domain) script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import smtplib
import sys

yourself = 'Your Name <your@email>'

msg = ("From: %sTo: %s\r\nSubject: --omnifocus %s\r\n\r\n"
% (yourself, yourself, " ".join(sys.argv[1:])))

 

smtplib.SMTP('localhost').sendmail(yourself, yourself, msg)


Make that script executable, throw it in your path, and run it from a shell. Even better, run it inside Emacs and M-! rememberto go grocery shopping!