Last updated: 15 June 2010

I’ve added two more scripts to my OmniFocus repertoire: Today and Tomorrow.

As one might expect, Today sets the due date of selected item(s) to the current date, and Tomorrow sets the due date to the next date.

Why might you need this? A few days’ lapse are enough to make a deadline-sorted view worthless, especially when some of these deadlines are hard and others fall into the “optionally, I’d love to get this done today” category. My Defer script is one method to deal with these items: defer them by a day, a week, etc. But sometimes you just need to set these items to today. Or tomorrow.

As with Defer, these scripts work with any number of selected tasks. For each selected item:

  • If there’s no existing due date, sets due date to today (5pm by default, configurable in script)
  • If there’s an existing due date, sets due date to today at the original due time
  • If there’s an original start AND due date, advances the start date by same # of days as due date has to move (this is to respect parameters of repeating actions)
  • Ignores start date if there’s no due date already assigned to a task

Putting it all together

I’ve set my keyboard shortcuts for Defer, Snooze, Today, Tomorrow, and This Weekend to ctrl-d, ctrl-z, ctrl-t, ctrl-y, and ctrl-w, respectively (using FastScripts), so shuffling tasks couldn’t be easier. Use cases:

Catching up after holiday: Select all overdue tasks, hit ctrl-t to bring them current. Then snooze or defer the ones you won’t get to today.

Planning today’s tasks: Select your tasks and ctrl-t them into the day’s queue. Planning tomorrow? Use ctrl-y instead.

Download them here

Thanks to Seth Landsman for his role in inspiring my Today script. His version is very similar but doesn’t quite match the defer logic I need.

Usage note: some items inherit due dates from their parent task or project, but don’t actually have due dates themselves. This script ignores those items.