Copy Plain Text
Summary: Copies the titles of the selected actions to the clipboard as plain text.
Requires: OmniFocus Pro
Install Location: ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/OmniFocus/
Last Modified: 2026-03-28
Description
Normally, if you copy or cut from OmniFocus and paste into a rich text view such as OmniOutliner or TextEdit, each title will be blue-underlined text with a clickable link back to the original action in OmniFocus. This is usually not what I want—typically I am copying to move the actions to another app, so the links are useless (pointing to actions that no longer exist) as well as being unslightly. This script copies only the text of the selected actions, without the links.
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Script
on run
set to {}
repeat with _action in my selectedActions()
tell application "OmniFocus"
copy _action's name to end of _titles
end tell
end repeat
set text item delimiters to return
set to _titles as Unicode text
set the clipboard to _string
end run
on ()
tell application "OmniFocus"
return my filterValues(my selectedValues(), {inbox task, task, available task, remaining task})
end tell
end selectedActions
on ()
tell application "OmniFocus"
return value of selected trees of content of first document window of front document
end tell
end
on (_values, _classes)
tell application "OmniFocus"
set _result to {}
repeat with _value in _values
if contains _value's class then
copy _value to end of _result
end if
end repeat
return
end tell
end