Here is another Things Shortcut that takes selected tasks and tags them with a tag named through ask for input.
I like this because I can select a bunch of tasks for tagging at once (read: inbox) and not use the tag selector. And, because this uses the Get selected items action, it can be invoked from Siri (or Share Sheet or Spotlight), so I can speak the tag to add.
Enjoy!
Okay, so I don’t always finish my work as intended. Fine.
To help out, here is a Things Shortcut that takes selected tasks and moves their start date to the next business day.
Because this uses the Get selected items action, it can be invoked from either Share Sheet, Spotlight, or with Siri (which is rewarding). Enjoy!
Certainly, there are all the Shortcuts on my Day automation page, but I happened to simplify one today and thought I’d share:
Agenda Daily Note with Tasks from Things →
This Shortcut creates a new note in Agenda (yes, that’s a referral link for a bonus 6 months on a subscription), titled with Today’s date, containing calendar events and tasks for the day.
I used the Agenda native Shortcuts actions (now federated across all platforms, hooray!), so no more bonkers URL encoding everything (another big hooray!), and the newer Shortcuts actions in Things to get those tasks on its Today list, linking back to them in Things natively.
Hope someone can make some use of this!
Another Things Shortcut, this one is for creating a project based on an existing task as a template.
It assumes there is a task in Someday that has a checklist items within it. This Shortcut will search for that task based on key words, confirm it found the right one, then make a project from it with each checklist item as a task inside it.
I like this approach, because the management of the template is super easy inside of Things, and this Shortcut could then be bigged up pretty easily with more features:
Enjoy!
Converting an OmniFocus Shortcut for use with the new Things 3.17 Shortcut actions (currently in beta released publicly!), here is a Shortcut that asks for the name of a tag, then adds anything with that tag to a list in an email. It also asks if the tag is the greeting (the common use case is for a tag that is a person’s name). Enjoy!
Recently, Cultured Code, the group behind the task management app Things, shared that the upcoming 3.17 version woul include deeper support for Shortcuts. I get a lot of requests for my Shortcuts to support Things, but that hasn’t been possible until this new version (previous versions' Shortcuts actions basically all landed you in the Things interface, without being able to otherwise read, manipulate, or share Things data).
I will be re-tooling a bunch of my Shortcuts to support Things in this new incarnation, but as a start, I thought I would share a first fast one I whipped up:
Things Meeting Prep Email Shortcut →
This Shortcut creates an email draft intended to be sent to recipients in advance of a meeting.
It asks for a tag to be searched for and creates a text list of tasks with that tag in a draft email. It will also either use the search key as a greeting in the email or allow you to enter one of your own.
This is great for meetings with my boss, where I can search her name as a tag in Things, and then have an email drafted to her before our weekly 1:1 conversations.
As of this writing, Things 3.17 is in beta, so that is required for this to work for you, but hope you enjoy!