Software Product Development

Software Product Development

Tarun Upadhyay   //  Tarun is still just flatly amazed by the power of the Internet, its ability to level the field and help the little guy compete with the biggest organizations.

Those little guy success stories are what drags him to work every morning and he lives a small part of that little guy's dream working for hCentive.

Prior to co-founding hCentive, Tarun served as a co-founder and CTO for GlobalLogic - an outsourcing service provider for large, complex products and software - which grew from 0 to 400 engineers while he was the CTO.

Prior to Globallogic, he was co-founder and CTO of Pinelabs - an India-based provider of Loyalty and Payment solutions using Smart Cards. While Tarun was CTO, Pinelabs grew from a drawing board idea to a suite of successful products running at many fortune 500 companies handling millions of credit card transactions per day.

Tarun holds an M.S in Mathematics and Computer Applications from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

Aug 2 / 5:46pm

add delegated tasks from entourage to "Waiting" context in OmniFocus

by tarun upadhyay
One problem that I face is that how do I keep track of what tasks I have delegated to others from my Entourage. So, I wrote an applescript that will take your current message and copy it to OmniFocus inbox and also set the context to Waiting. At your leisure (or depending on your settings), you set the project of this task later (if you want to).
Here is what you need to do:
  1. download this applescript and save it at ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script Menu Items
  2. create a contact in entourage with name as "waiting" and address as your own email address
  3. set up a rule in entourage for the account you created the "waiting" account like this.
  4. The applescript should point to the script mentioned above.
  5. Now, whenever you want to track a task that you have delegated to somebody else - you can also BCC the same email it to "waiting" contact and it will automatically appear in your omnifocus inbox when it is recieved.
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4 comments

Apr 17, 2009
Dean McGrath said...
This link no longer works:
http://bp2.blogger.com/_2S7lk_3j72E/SJNodcbsOpI/AAAAAAAAAaE/uBrHnTz4GMQ/s1600...
Can you point me to the right link as I would love to get this working in Entourage.

Thanks very much

Apr 29, 2009
tarun101 said...
Dean, Thanks for pointing out the error. I have updated the URL for the image and it is now available at:

http://bit.ly/164bu7.>

I have also updated the post above.

Jun 06, 2009
gabriel said...
Hi, the entourage rule link image is not working, and links update either.

Regards,

Jan 21, 2010
Adam Cohen said...
I have another "send to Omnifocus" script that both copies the text of the original message (as your script does) and also embeds a link in the Omnifocus item notes to the original message in Entourage, which makes followup extremely easy. Do you know how to add the linkback to your script as well?

Thanks,

Adam

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