Siri Shortcut to Add Discourse Forum Post to OmniFocus

[brian_renshaw]

If you’re like me you may take some time to check in on MPU Talk (and other Discourse forums) but don’t necessarily have time right then to read or respond to the posts that you’d like. I created this Siri Shortcut to create an OmniFocus task. It lets you choose the tag (based on what forum your in), gets the name of the post for the task title, choose an action word to preface the task, and puts the link to the post in the notes.

I’ve outlined in detail and gave some more reasons why I’ve been using it in this blog post.

But if you don’t want to read my explanations or read through the description of the workflow you can go ahead and download it here. Of course, feel free to take it and modify it for your own purposes.

[ChrisUpchurch]

Great minds think alike:

OmniFocus reminder to reply to a MPU Talk thread

I often check MPU Talk on my iPhone while I’m out and about. While the phone works well for reading, if I want to write a more lengthy reply, I’d rather use a Mac or iPad. Since I forget my head if it weren’t screwed on tight, I need some sort of tool to remind myself to write that reply when I get back to a device with a real keyboard. I launch this workflow from the share sheet in Safari and it creates a task titled “Reply to [name of webpage]”, puts the page’s URL in the notes field, sets …

[brian_renshaw]

Oh nice!

[brian_renshaw]

I’ve updated the shortcut to remove &;quot; from the title of the forum post if it exists and replace it with an actual quote. Additionally, it will now open the Discourse app once the shortcut is finished running. You can download the updated shortcut here. I wish there was a way to update shared shortcuts without creating a new link!