Oh, I see what you’re saying. We’re in agreement–there’s still a constellation of apps that I need to get through my day, for sure. The more DT can index, the easier those searches will be though.
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I’ve had great success over the past couple of years with integrating DT and Things.
I augmented the “Add to Things” smart rule so that it also updates the selected DT item(s) with a custom metadata (called “todolink”) that is the callback URL of the newly created item in Things. This way I can easily find the Things item from the DT item, and (importantly) I can identify whether a DT item already has a corresponding Things item.
I also created a DT smart rule called “incoming todo”. This rule runs the smart rule above on any newly imported item that has the tag “todo” and doesn’t already have a Things url in the “todolink” metadata.
With this, I can quickly import files from any source and tag those which need to be in Things. The items created in Things include the callback URL to the DT items. It’s working great for me. I’m happy to share the script and the smart rule setup if anyone is interested.
I thought about also trying to reflect the “done” state of the Things item in DT, but haven’t found a need for that.
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Neat! Please share!
Here is my edit of the “Add to Things” script that updates the selected DT item(s) with a custom metadata (called “todolink”) that is the callback URL of the newly created item in Things:
tell application "Finder" to set pathToAdditions to ((path to application id "DNtp" as string) & "Contents:Resources:Template Script Additions.scpt") as alias
set helperLibrary to load script pathToAdditions
try
-- Get the selection
tell application id "DNtp" to set thisSelection to the selection
-- Error handling
if thisSelection is {} then error localized string "Please select a document or group, then try again."
my addToThings(thisSelection)
on error errmsg
display alert (localized string "Error when adding item to Things") message errmsg
end try
on addToThings(thisSelection)
repeat with thisItem in thisSelection
-- Get and format the data we need
tell application id "DNtp"
try
set customMD to custom meta data of thisItem
set theToDoLink to mdtodolink of customMD
on error
set theToDoLink to {}
end try
if theToDoLink is {} then
set theSummary to (name of thisItem) as string
set theURL to ("[url=" & reference URL of thisItem & "]" & name of thisItem & "[/url]") as string
-- Add new to do to Things
try
tell application "Things3"
set newToDo to make new to do with properties {name:theSummary, notes:theURL}
set newToDoURL to ("things:///show?id=" & id of newToDo)
end tell
tell application id "DNtp"
set thisItem to first item of thisSelection
add custom meta data newToDoURL for "todolink" to thisItem
end tell
on error errmsg
display alert (localized string "Things is not available.")
end try
end if
end tell
end repeat
end addToThings
And here is a screenshot of the smart rule that runs this script on any newly imported item that has the tag “todo” and doesn’t already have a Things url in the “todolink” metadata:
