They paste the TaskPaper template using an “Insert Text by Pasting” action. The beauty of TaskPaper support is that you can just copy and paste tasks in Omnifocus preserving all of the meta data like contexts and due dates, so the simplest of my templates (e.g. I just think the palette looks nice, and makes it look like I spent a lot more time making my templates than I actually did. You could just as easily trigger this with a snippet. I’ve set up a hotkey to display a macro palette that displays a list of my templates while in Omnifocus. The folder of stalled projects has been replaced in favor of a new set up that uses Keyboard Maestro. With version 2.7, Omnifocus is finally bringing the TaskPaper support it first introduced on iOS to the Mac, and it’s allowed me to drastically improve my templates. Not only did they add visual clutter to an already complex system, but some of my more complex ones required fiddly applescripts.
It’s one of the most popular posts I’ve written on the site, but, honestly, I never really felt like having a folder of stalled projects that I could duplicate was all that great of a solution.
Two years ago, I wrote a post about using checklist templates in Omnifocus.
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