Your workflow creations can be launched from inside the Workflow app, from other apps using Workflow's Action Extension, from the Today Widget or as a standalone app on your home screen. * Send a message including the last screenshot you took * Get directions to the nearest coffee shop in one tap * Make PDFs from Safari or any app with a share sheet * Add a home screen icon that calls a loved one Workflow includes over 200 actions, including those for Contacts, Calendar, Maps, Music, Photos, Camera, Reminders, Safari, AirDrop, Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, Evernote, iCloud Drive, and Health, to name a few. Workflow is your personal automation tool, enabling you to drag and drop any combination of actions to create powerful workflows for your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Add TaskPaper to OmniFocus: Put everything we've generated above into OmniFocus.Apple has updated its Workflow app with new capabilities and support for the iPhone X and iOS 11.Text: Format the action group here, with the name of the assignment, defer date and due date and the questions as subtasks.Text: Format the action group here, with the defer and due dates (these are inherited), followed by the tasks which were input and formatted.Combine Text: Put these tasks back together with line breaks between them,.Text: Format it with a tab indent and the - used to indicate a task in TaskPaper.Split Text: Break up the lines of tasks.Ask for Input: Input the tasks which need to be completed.Choose from Menu: Is this a study or assignment section/block.Repeat: Going through every section/block.Ask for Input: How many sections or blocks does the course have?.Ask for Input: The course name (which is the project name in OmniFocus).This whole Workflow generates TaskPaper and adds it to OmniFocus for me. In the assignment section I input the name of the assignment and the number of questions it has which generates subtasks for me. In the study section, I input the tasks and format them as taskpaper. This is a menu which allows me to use different actions based on which option is selected. I use the start and end dates to set due and defer dates, and then select if this section is to study something or to submit something (study or assignment). If I know that the course is split into weeks then I modify this action in advance to just use 'Week Repeat Index' as the name of the section. We then go through every section inputting the name of it.

As such the first thing it does after I input the project name (which is the class name) is to ask me how many sections there are in the course.

This workflow should add each section of work or assessment to OmniFocus as an action group, deferred and due as is appropriate. I always put assessments in their own blocks, because they are broken into sub sections as well. Each of my courses is separated into action groups - sometimes the courses divide their materials into weekly blocks, and sometimes they're divided into blocks based on assessments. The project will already exist as I have to register for the course, and potentially order course materials or communicate with the course professors before I get the syllabus. The purpose of this Workflow is to add my syllabus to my OmniFocus project for that class.

I was asked to talk through my thought process behind a Workflow by powderizedbookworm in the OmniFocus Slack, so this post will go into more detail than usual.

Using workflow taskpaper with omnifocus